Trajectory Table
Name of God (Revelation of Divine Character)
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Anti-default note: This trajectory is deliberately not typology. Typology requires a historical type prefiguring an escalated antitype — two distinct realities where the antitype is categorically greater. The logic here is different: the Name revealed at the burning bush is Yahweh's, and Jesus is Yahweh incarnate bearing that same Name (cf. TT 046 Divine Identity). Jesus does not "escalate" the Name the way the Passover lamb is "escalated" by Christ's sacrifice; He is the One whose Name was always being spoken. The older classification of this TT as "Direct Type, Forward-Looking" (with temple-as-name-dwelling prefiguring Christ) confused longitudinal theme with typology — a common anti-default failure. What grows across the canon is the disclosure and distribution of the Name, not a type-antitype pair. Where typological mechanics do operate along this trajectory (e.g., the place where the Name dwells, from tabernacle to Christ's body to church to new creation), those dynamics are captured by the Temple and Presence longitudinal theme and TT 022 Burning Bush, not by this TT.
Annexation guard: This TT cites-not-annexes TT 046's divine-identity argument. TT 105's freehold is the Name-motif disclosure-and-distribution — the qārāʾ bəšēm YHWH invocation thread (Gen 4:26 → Joel 2:32 → Acts 2:21 / Rom 10:13) and the Exodus 34:6-7 attribute-formula reuse-career. Where the prose invokes the Philippians 2:9-11 / Isaiah 45:23 / ἐγώ εἰμι material, it does so as cited warrant (a Name-trajectory necessarily terminates in the One who bears the Name), not as the deity-of-Christ argument, whose dedicated development (the monotheism-preserving mechanics of inclusion within the unique divine identity) belongs to TT 046. See the Related Trajectory Tables section below.
The name of God in Scripture is far more than a label — it is the revelation of His character, presence, and covenant commitment. In ancient Near Eastern thought a name embodied essence and authority; to know someone's name was to have access to them, and to invoke it was to call upon their power. When God revealed His covenant Name YHWH (יְהוָה) to Moses — "I AM WHO I AM" (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה, ʾehyeh ʾăšer ʾehyeh) — He disclosed His self-existent, covenant-keeping aseity: "This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation" (Exodus 3:14-15). At Sinai He proclaimed that Name with its attributes — "The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness… forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished" (Exodus 34:6-7) — a proclamation that becomes one of the most-reused formulas in the Hebrew Bible (Ps 86:15; Ps 103:7-8; Jonah 4:2; Nahum 1:3; Micah 7:18; Neh 9:17; Joel 2:13). The habit of invoking that Name is as old as the canon itself: "At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD" (Gen 4:26) — the qārāʾ bəšēm YHWH thread that Joel 2:32 takes up and Acts 2:21 fulfills. Throughout the OT the Name is progressively deepened: through compound names (Yahweh-Yireh, Yahweh-Nissi, Yahweh-Shalom, Yahweh-Roʿi), through the Deuteronomic place "the LORD your God will choose… to establish as a dwelling for His Name" (Deut 12:5, 11), through the prophetic expectation that "the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone" (Zech 14:9), and through the promise that "everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved" (Joel 2:32). The NT's claim is that Jesus is the Name fully disclosed: He "made Him known" (John 1:18, ἐξηγήσατο, "he exegeted"), manifested the Father's Name to His disciples (John 17:6, 26), claimed the divine "ἐγώ εἰμι" Himself (John 8:58; 18:5-6), and has been given "the name above all names" so that the Isaiah 45:23 oath of Yahweh-exclusive homage is now fulfilled to the Father's glory at the Name of Jesus (Phil 2:9-11). When Peter preaches "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved" (Acts 2:21) and Paul concludes "if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,'… you will be saved" (Rom 10:9-13), Joel's oracle has been brought home: calling on Yahweh's Name is calling on Jesus' Name. The trajectory ends with the Name inscribed on the foreheads of the redeemed (Rev 22:4; 14:1; 3:12) — what Moses glimpsed from the cleft of the rock becomes the eternal identity of the saints.
How this connects — Method
Longitudinal Theme (primary) — The divine Name is a canon-wide motif traced from patriarchal compound-names through the Sinai name-revelation (Exodus 3:14) and name-proclamation (Exodus 34:5-7), the Deuteronomic theology of the place chosen as "a dwelling for His Name" (Deut 12:5, 11), the prophetic expectation of universal knowing of the Name (Isaiah 52:6; Ezekiel 36:22-23; Zechariah 14:9; Malachi 1:11), and the NT's disclosure that Jesus both bears and reveals that Name (John 17:6; 1:18; Philippians 2:9-11; Revelation 22:3-4). Promise-Fulfillment (co-primary) — God promises that His Name will be great among the nations (Malachi 1:11), that everyone who calls on Yahweh's Name will be saved (Joel 2:32), and that Yahweh will be one with a single Name in that day (Zechariah 14:9). Acts 2:21 and Romans 10:13 identify "the Name" of that Joel oracle as Jesus' Name, and Philippians 2:9-11 declares the Isaiah 45:23 oath of universal homage fulfilled in Jesus bearing "the name above all names." Redemptive-Historical Progression — the arc moves in epochs from Horeb (3:14) to the tabernacle/temple name-dwelling, to the prophetic expansion and exilic vindication, to the Incarnation (John 1:14, 18), Pentecost naming (Acts 2:21), universal confession (Phil 2:9-11), and eschatological name-on-foreheads (Rev 22:4).
ICompound Names — God Named Through His Redemptive ActsCompound Names
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26And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
8From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
14And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."
15And Moses built an altar and named it The LORD Is My Banner.
24So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
1A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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IISinai Disclosure — "I AM WHO I AM"Sinai Disclosure
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13Then Moses asked God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is His name?' What should I tell them?" 14God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'" 15God also told Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.' This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
2God also told Moses, “I am the LORD. 3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.
Canonical Intertextuality Pairs4
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IIISinai Proclamation — The Name With Its AttributesSinai Proclamation
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18Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.” 19“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
5And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD. 6Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: "The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness, 7maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations."
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IVCreedal Echoes — Israel Prays the Name Back to GodCreedal Echoes
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18'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.'
15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
8The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
8The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
13So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, "O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
17They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
Canonical Intertextuality Pairs4
- Joel 2.13 to Exodus 34.6 CRITICAL - Joel grounds the call to repentance in the attribute formula: "return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion." Joel receives the formula through Jonah 4:2's form of it — the two share the added clause "relents from sending disaster" — with Exodus 34:6 as its ultimate source.
- Jonah 4.2 to Exodus 34.6 CRITICAL - Jonah quotes the creed as his complaint — the prophet fled precisely because he knew the Name's mercy reaches Nineveh.
- Psalms 103.7-8 to Exodus 34.6 CRITICAL - "He made known His ways to Moses" — an explicit citation of the Sinai proclamation, democratizing the attribute formula into Israel's corporate praise.
- Nehemiah 9.16-17 to Exodus 34.6 CRITICAL - The Levites' covenant-renewal confession quotes the attribute formula — "a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion" — against Israel's whole history of rebellion.
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VDeuteronomic Theology — The Name Dwells in the Chosen PlaceDeuteronomic Theology
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24You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
5Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go. 11then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
29May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, 'My Name shall be there,' so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
9but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’
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VIProphetic Expansion — Name Exalted, Vindicated, OneProphetic Expansion
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6Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
22Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went. 23I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes.
9On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.
11For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations," says the LORD of Hosts.
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VIIProphetic Promise — Call on the Name and Be SavedProphetic Promise
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32And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.
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VIIINT Inauguration — The Word Made Known, the Name "I AM"Inauguration
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14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
58"Truly, truly, I tell you," Jesus declared, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
6I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 26And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
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IXNT Fulfillment — Calling on the Name = Calling on JesusFulfillment
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21And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
12Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
9that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved. 11It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” 12For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him, 13for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Canonical Intertextuality Pairs3
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XNT Fulfillment — The Name Above Every NameFulfillment
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9Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names, 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
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XINT Application — Baptized Into the Name, Act in the NameApplication
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19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
13And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it.
17And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
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XIIAlready / Not-Yet — Confessed Now, Consummated ThenAlready / Not-Yet
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3Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
7Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.
XIIIEschatological Consummation — The Name On Their ForeheadsEschatological Consummation
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3No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him. 4They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.
1Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
12The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.
Canonical Intertextuality Pairs1
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Four-Step Application
1. What You Must Do
You need to know God's Name — not as a theological concept to master but as a Person to trust. The Name hidden for millennia has been fully disclosed in Jesus Christ. Your access to God depends on calling on Him by the Name He has given: Jesus. "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved" (Rom 10:13). The demand is simple and total — confess that Jesus is Lord, and live under that Name. And even this confession is not self-generated: "no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except by the Holy Spirit" (1 Cor 12:3) — the calling that saves is itself Spirit-wrought.
2. Why You Can't Do It
You keep trying to approach God through something other than His given Name. For some it is religious performance — mastering doctrine, keeping rules, accumulating spiritual credentials, as if the Name could be earned. For others it is self-authored spirituality — inventing your own god-of-preference rather than receiving the one true God by the Name He has revealed. Both are forms of name-substitution: you name God yourself rather than calling Him by the Name He has spoken. But the Name is not a formula that gives you control — it is the self-disclosure of the self-existent One who "will by no means leave the guilty unpunished" (Exod 34:7). Every self-made access-route collapses before the holy Name.
3. How He Did It
Jesus "revealed" the Father's Name (John 17:6). The verb in John 1:18 is exegeomai — Jesus is the exegesis of God, the one who explains and embodies the invisible Father. He spoke the Name "I AM" from His own lips (John 8:58; 18:5-6) — Yahweh's own self-designation now in human speech. He bore the judgment of the Name that "will by no means leave the guilty unpunished" (Exod 34:7) on the cross, so that the same Name which had declared holy wrath could now offer mercy fully. He rose, and "God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names" (Phil 2:9) — so that the Yahweh-oath that "every knee will bow before Me" (Isa 45:23) is now answered at the Name of Jesus, to the Father's glory. What Moses glimpsed in a cleft (Exod 33:22), what the high priest pronounced in a sanctuary, is now uttered and answered in an ordinary human confession: "Jesus is Lord."
4. How Through Him You Can
Because Christ has been given the name above all names, you can now call on Him and be saved. You pray "in Jesus' name" not as a magical formula but as a mediatorial claim — approaching the Father through the Son in whom the Name fully dwells. Your baptism is "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (Matt 28:19) — the triune Name spoken over you once, marking you forever as belonging. "Whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus" (Col 3:17) — not carrying out religious duties but living as one who bears the Name. And in the new creation "His name will be on their foreheads" (Rev 22:4) — what was hidden becomes your permanent identity. You do not earn the Name; you receive it. You do not control the Name; it claims you. The restricted Name of the old covenant is now the universal Name of the new, and you are invited to call on it. And the end is not rescue alone but sight: what Moses glimpsed from the cleft of the rock (Exod 33:22) becomes the redeemed's unveiled, eternal beholding — "They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads" (Rev 22:4) — the Name no longer merely invoked for deliverance but the very face of God savored forever; and beholding Him, we are changed into His image with intensifying glory (2 Cor 3:18). Sight unto savoring.
Across the whole trajectory
Wider canonical web
- Deuteronomy 12.2 to Exodus 20.24 - Deuteronomy takes up the altar law's "every place where I cause My name to be remembered" (Exod 20:24) and narrows it to the one place the LORD will choose "as a dwelling for His Name" (Deut 12:5) — the verbal contact falls at 12:5 and 12:11 rather than at 12:2 itself.
- 2 Chronicles 6.14 to Exodus 34.6 - Solomon's temple-dedication prayer opens by confessing the covenant-keeping steadfast love of the Exodus 34:6 attribute formula — the proclaimed Name invoked at the very place where the Name dwells — though the wording ("keeping Your covenant of loving devotion") stands closer to Deut 7:9 and to its synoptic parallel 1 Kgs 8:23 than to Exod 34:6 itself.
- Nehemiah 1.8 to 1 Kings 8.29 - Nehemiah's exile prayer faces the place Solomon's prayer named: "the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name" (Neh 1:9) answers "the place of which You said, 'My Name shall be there'" (1 Kgs 8:29); the contact falls at 1:9 rather than 1:8.
- Nehemiah 1.8-9 to Leviticus 26.40 - Nehemiah prays the Mosaic scatter-and-gather word back to God — "If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, but if you return to Me… I will gather them" (Neh 1:8-9) — the covenant logic of Leviticus 26, where confession of unfaithfulness opens the way to God's remembering His covenant.
- Psalms 86.15-17 to Exodus 34.6 - David prays the Exodus 34:6 creed back to God as the basis of personal petition — the proclaimed Name becomes the ground of individual intercession.
- Lamentations 3.22-23 to Exodus 34.6 - In the ashes of Jerusalem the creed's steadfast love and faithfulness become the sole ground of hope: "His mercies never fail. They are new every morning."
- Micah 7.18-19 to Exodus 34.6-7 - "Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity…?" — the book closes with a meditation on the creed's forgiveness clause, casting sins into the depths of the sea.
- Nahum 1.2-3 to Exodus 34.6-7 - Nahum takes up the creed's judgment side — "slow to anger… [He] will by no means leave the guilty unpunished" — and holds it against Nineveh, proving the formula's two edges inseparable.
Lexicon Findings
The trajectory is carried by an uninterrupted Hebrew-Greek lexical thread. The divine Name YHWH (H3068, Yəhôvâh) is cognate with the verb H1961 (hāyâ, "to be") — the self-existence disclosed in the burning-bush formula ʾehyeh ʾăšer ʾehyeh ("I AM WHO I AM," Exod 3:14). The Hebrew H8034 (šēm) carries "name" as character, authority, and accessible presence — the word used when Yahweh "proclaimed His name, the LORD" at Sinai (Exod 34:5) and caused His Name to "dwell" in the chosen place (Deut 12:5, 11). The Septuagint renders YHWH as G2962 (kyrios, "Lord") and šēm as G3686 (onoma, "name"), preserving the theological weight through translation. Jesus adopts the "I AM" formula in Greek using G1473 (egō, "I") + G1510 (eimi, "am") — most famously in John 8:58 ("Before Abraham was born, I am" — egō eimi) and John 18:5-6 (where His absolute egō eimi elicits a theophanic reaction). Paul applies Joel's "everyone who calls on the name (onoma) of the Lord (kyrios) will be saved" (Joel 2:32 LXX) directly to Jesus in Romans 10:13, and Philippians 2:9-11 declares that Jesus has received "the name (onoma) above all names" so that every knee bows "at the name of Jesus" — the Isaiah 45:23 oath rendered to Yahweh now rendered at Jesus' Name. The lexical arc: H1961 → H3068 / H8034 → LXX G2962 / G3686 → NT egō eimi applied to Jesus → onoma above all names in Christ. The invocation verb completes the thread: H7121 (qārāʾ, "to call") — the verb of "men began to call upon the name of the LORD" (Gen 4:26) and "everyone who calls on the name of the LORD" (Joel 2:32) — is rendered by the LXX as ἐπικαλέω (G1941), the very verb Peter and Paul use when they apply Joel's promise to Jesus' Name (Acts 2:21; Rom 10:13). A precision guards this thread: the collocation {H7121 + H8034 + H3068} is a standing, stock invocation formula — it co-occurs in some 78 verses of the Hebrew canon — so the thread's force is not rarity-based verbal citation but the universalization of the standing formula: what Gen 4:26 begins and Israel's worship sustains, Joel 2:32 throws open to "everyone who calls," and Acts 2:21 / Rom 10:13 identify the invoked Name as Jesus'. Genuine lemma recurrence at every node; advancement by widening, not by allusive rarity.
Graded-warrant note: The lexical thread is sound, with three Barr-cautions recorded. (i) YHWH ↔ hāyâ (H1961) is a text-disclosed wordplay — Exodus 3:14 itself makes the connection (ʾehyeh ʾăšer ʾehyeh) — not an independent etymological derivation; "cognate" should be read in that qualified sense, never as a root-fallacy. (ii) šēm (H8034) carries "character/authority/presence" where the context warrants it; guard against illegitimate totality transfer (importing every sense into each occurrence). (iii) The ἐγώ εἰμι → Exodus 3:14 identification is graded — strongest at John 8:58 and 18:5-6, mediated through Isaiah 43:10 ("understand that I am He"); the plain LXX of Exod 3:14 is ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ὤν, so the bare-egō eimi echo is a real but qualified warrant. (iv) Gen 4:26 text-form note: the LXX reads ἤλπισεν — "this one hoped to call upon the name of the LORD God" — a text-form divergence from the MT's "then it was begun"; yet the LXX keeps the invocation phrase itself — "to call upon the name of the lord," ἐπικαλέομαι (G1941) + ὄνομα (G3686) + κύριος (G2962), the same collocation Joel 2:32 LXX and Acts 2:21 carry — so the divergence touches only the verb of beginning, and the invocation thread stands in both the Hebrew text and the Greek.
Key Lexical Threads:
- Hebrew: H1961 (hāyâ) — "to be, become, exist" — underlies the Name (Exod 3:14)
- Hebrew: H7121 (qārāʾ) — "to call, call upon" — the verb of invoking the Name (Gen 4:26; Joel 2:32)
- Hebrew: H3068 (Yəhôvâh, YHWH) — the covenant Name (Exod 3:15; 6:2-3; 34:5-7)
- Hebrew: H8034 (šēm) — "name, character, memorial, presence" (Deut 12:5, 11; 1 Kgs 8:29)
- LXX: G2962 (kyrios) — standard LXX rendering of YHWH, carrying covenantal weight into NT Christology
- NT: G1473 + G1510 (egō eimi) — Jesus' claim to bear the divine Name (John 8:58; 18:5-6)
- NT: G3686 (onoma) — "name, authority, character" — Jesus manifests and receives the Name (John 17:6, 26; Phil 2:9; Acts 2:21; Rom 10:13)
- NT: G1941 (epikaleomai) — "to call upon" — the LXX/NT verb of invoking the Name (Joel 2:32 LXX; Acts 2:21; Rom 10:13)
Lexicon References:
- H1961 - הָיָה (hāyâ) - to be, become, exist
- H3068 - יְהֹוָה (Yəhôvâh) - YHWH, the self-existent One
- H7121 - קָרָא (qārāʾ) - to call, call upon, proclaim
- H8034 - שֵׁם (šēm) - name, reputation, memorial
- G1473 - ἐγώ (egō) - I (emphatic first person pronoun)
- G1510 - εἰμί (eimi) - I am, to be, to exist
- G1941 - ἐπικαλέομαι (epikaleomai) - to call upon, invoke
- G2962 - κύριος (kyrios) - Lord, master, YHWH
- G3686 - ὄνομα (onoma) - name, authority, character
All Foundation Texts
Detailed exegetical analyses of each key passage in this trajectory, including Hebrew/Greek key terms, canonical connections, and Christological development.
- Genesis 22:14 — The YHWH Yirʾeh compound name at the Aqedah — God named by redemptive act.
- Exodus 3:13-15 — The covenant Name disclosed: ʾehyeh ʾăšer ʾehyeh / YHWH.
- Exodus 34:5-7 — The Name proclaimed with its attributes: the canonical fulcrum (among the most-reused passages within the OT itself).
- Numbers 14:18 — Moses prays the attribute formula back to God at Kadesh — the first canonical reuse of Exodus 34:6-7, the Name as the ground of intercession.
- Deuteronomy 12:11 — "The place the LORD your God will choose… to establish as a dwelling for His Name."
- Isaiah 52:6 — "My people will know My name" — prophetic promise of covenant recognition.
- Joel 2:32 — "Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved" — the promise Acts 2:21 and Rom 10:13 apply to Jesus.
- Matthew 3:3 — Isaiah 40:3's "Prepare the way for the LORD (κύριος)" applied to Jesus — an early synoptic kyrios-identification.
- Matthew 28:19 — Baptism into the single triune Name.
- John 17:6 — "I have revealed Your name" — Jesus' explicit disclosure claim.
- Acts 2:21 — Peter applies Joel 2:32 at Pentecost: the Name of the Lord is the name of Jesus.
- Philippians 2:9-11 — The name above all names, fulfilling the Isa 45:23 Yahweh-oath at Jesus' Name.
- Revelation 22:3-4 — The Name on the foreheads of the redeemed — eschatological consummation.
Intertextuality Pairs 25
- 1 John 4:8 to Exodus 34:6-7
- 1 Timothy 6:1 to Isaiah 52:5
- 2 Timothy 2:19 to Isaiah 26:13
- Acts 2:17-21 to Joel 2:28-32
- Acts 2:19-20 to Joel 2:32
- Acts 4:12 to Joel 2:32
- Acts 4:12 to Psalms 146:3
- Joel 2:13 to Exodus 34:6
- John 6:20 to Exodus 3:14
- John 8:24 to Isaiah 43:10
- John 18:5-6 to Exodus 3:14
- Jonah 4:2 to Exodus 34:6
- Luke 1:76-79 to Isaiah 40:3
- Mark 12:26 to Exodus 3:6
- Matthew 3:3 to Isaiah 40:3
- Matthew 22:32 to Exodus 3:6
- Nehemiah 9:16-17 to Exodus 34:6
- Philippians 2:10-11 to Isaiah 45:23
- Psalms 103:7-8 to Exodus 34:6
- Revelation 1:4 to Exodus 3:14
- Revelation 1:17 to Isaiah 44:6
- Revelation 3:12 to Isaiah 56:3-5
- Revelation 3:12 to Isaiah 62:2
- Revelation 15:4 to Jeremiah 10:7
- Romans 10:13 to Joel 2:32
Trajectory Tables 7
- Burning Bush (Divine Presence in Fire) Trajectory Table
- Divine Identity (Deity of Christ) Trajectory Table
- Solomon's Temple (Glory of God's Dwelling) Trajectory Table
- Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding Trajectory Table
- Theophanies (Pre-Incarnate Appearances of Christ) Trajectory Table
- Trajectory Tables Index
- Urim and Thummim (Divine Guidance and Perfect Light) Trajectory Table