“…He saved them for His name’s sake.”
Psalm 106:8

      The Name of YHWH (Yahweh) is endowed with power. The Name and the power are synonyms. “By what power or by what name have you done this? (Acts 4:7)” As Messianic Believers, we have the covenant through the Messiah YahShua to call on the name Yahweh. There is power in the name of YHWH (Yahweh).

El is the general title for YHWH (Yahweh). It is used 250 times in the Tanach. The earliest combination of El Yah inscription (Late Bronze Age) was found on a beautiful Ewer, discovered in a rubbish heap of a temple at Lachish in 1934. The Lachish Ewer (1220 BCE) bares the title El coupled with the abbreviated name Yah embossed with the Menorah and a sacrificial ram.

      This title draws attention to the fact that one is worshipping the one true El. This is the most common title for Yahweh and comes from the ancient Hebrew word “ul” meaning, “to be strong.” In other Semitic tongues El is referred as Ellah (Ancient Hebrew – Ezra 5:11), Eloah (Hebrew – Deut. 32:17), Ilu (Akkadian), Elahh (Chaldean), and Allah (Arabic – though this was applied to the Arab moon deity also called Sin of Sinai). 

“If this were an authentic history, the textbook would explain that the god of Muhammad was man’s creation. Arabia was a pagan nation that worshiped over 300 gods. One of those was the moon god named, al-ilah. Legend has it that the moon god mated with the sun god and had two daughters, both of whom were worshiped as goddesses. When Muhammad claimed to have had his `vision’ and `revelation from Gabriel’ he chose al-ilah as the god to build his army around. Muhammad shortened the name, al-ilah, to, Allah, and declared that he alone should be worshiped. He forbade the worship of the daughters. To this day, a crescent moon can be found at the front of every mosque, acknowledging that Allah was, and is the moon god.”

     Earlier Arabs used the word El as a single name for the deity the same way it is used in the Hebrew Scriptures. The word became iyal as a plural form of majesty like many use Elohim.

Robert Miller – Understanding Yahweh