11:22 Then the cherubim spread 4 their wings with their wheels alongside them while the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.
1 tn The name (“El Shaddai”) has often been translated “God Almighty,” primarily because Jerome translated it omnipotens (“all powerful”) in the Latin Vulgate. There has been much debate over the meaning of the name. For discussion see W. F. Albright, “The Names Shaddai and Abram,” JBL 54 (1935): 173-210; R. Gordis, “The Biblical Root sdy-sd,” JTS 41 (1940): 34-43; and especially T. N. D. Mettinger, In Search of God, 69-72.
2 tc The phrase “along with their entire bodies” is absent from the LXX and may be a gloss explaining the following words.
3 tn Heb “lifted.”
4 tn Heb “lifted.”