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yᵊhōwā nissī יְהֹוָה נִסִּי ‘YHWH/Jehovah-nissi’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from yᵊhōwā יְהֹוָה ‘YHWH/Lord’ and nēs נֵס ‘ensign’ with pronominal suffix
Roots: יהווה נס

yᵊhōwā nissī pr n loc
Jehovah-nissi = "Jehovah is my banner"
1) the name given by Moses to the altar which he built in commemoration of the discomfiture of the Amalekites

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2014 — 2026 Institute for Biblical Content. Biblical Hebrew for linguists: a multilingual analytical biblical Hebrew lexicon.
Editorial Lead of the English section: M. Hardy (ENS, IBC).
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