Take this to heart. And ask yourself if it is appropriate to call our Creator by the term “God” - a name which He was never known by in the Bible, and a name which was the same as an idol in the Bible, in the time and place this passage was penned.
And really why should we even want to?
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Joshua Myers
From the get-go of our Bibles, He is known as God.
You say the same name as an idol in the Bible, I assume you mean גד, which is also a son of Jacob.
When looking at the etymology of the word "god" it is traced back to the Old High Germanic "gott", which has no indications of being borrowed and means deity.
So, if we were to compare it to a Hebrew word, it would be closer to גת than גד in pronunciation, which is a word for a wine-press. To compare גד with god would be like comparing טוא and too (or to or two), the later we know each meaning, but the former means to sweep away. They both sound the same, but have no correlation between them.
My question would be, as an English speaker, which English word should be used?
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