What Hebrew name for God is used in Genesis 21:33 when Abraham calls him the everlasting God?
In Genesis 21:33, when Abraham called on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God, the Hebrew name used is El Olam. The context explains that Olam, in common usage, refers to things hidden and to God’s sovereign ability to hide things.
Les explains that Scripture often uses different names of deity according to a particular situation or point to be made, while it is always the same God. Earlier, in Abraham’s dealing with God when he was going to offer Isaac, God provided a ram in the thicket, and the name was Jehovah-Jireh. Here Abraham calls upon the everlasting God. In English this is not caught, but in the Hebrew it is a totally different word than the Jehovah God and so forth back in Genesis chapter 4. Later there is El Shaddai in chapter 17, the God of fruitfulness. Here there is still another name of deity, and in the Hebrew it is El Olam, meaning God, the everlasting God. Les notes that in the Hebrew the word Olam, when used in common usage, always refers to things hidden and to God’s sovereign ability to hide things.
And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.