Seven Times Jesus said “I AM”
Seven Times Jesus said “I AM” A lesson by Terry Pruitt When Moses asked the God of Abraham in Exodus 3:13 what his name was, he said “I am”. He used a Hebrew word for “I Am” which is used as the name of God in the Old Testament. The name in Hebrew is Yahweh or Jehovah or YHWH or יהוה . Bible Nerd Words: In the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Old Testament there is instructions to not say Yahweh but to say the Hebrew word for LORD, Adonai. Our English translations follow this tradition. The ESV uses the all in CAPs word LORD when translating Yahweh. In the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the Septuagint (LXX) translates this as a phrase “ἐγὼ εἰμί”. This same phrase of “I am” (ἐγὼ εἰμί) is used in the Greek New Testament in the Gospel of John. Jesus uses this phrase “I am” in a way to signify that he is the Second Person of the Trinity. Seven different times he says I am as a revelation of who he is as God. In case you thought, he is just saying “