El

Also known as ’Ēl, Il, ’Il, Ilāh, El (Deity)

Northwest Semitic word for "god"

Key facts

Other names: Adon Ilim
Venerated in: Ancient Semitic religion
Abode: Mount Lel
Symbol: Bull
Region: Levant (particularly Canaan ) and Anatolia
Consort: Asherah /Athirat Other wives
Children: Anat Ashtar Baal Mot Shahar Shalim Shapash Yahweh Yam , (Ugarit religions) Athtart ? Hadad ? 70 sons in total
Syrian: Dagon
Mesopotamian: Anu , Enlil
Hurrian: Kumarbi
Roman: Saturn
Greek: Cronus , Poseidon

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El is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities. A rarer form, 'ila, represents the predicate form in the Old Akkadian and Amorite languages. The word is derived from the Proto-Semitic *ʔil-.

Originally a Canaanite deity known as 'El, 'Al or 'Il was the supreme god of the ancient Canaanite religion. Some scholars like Ignace Gelb and Frank Moore Cross speculate he may have also been the supreme god of East Semitic speakers in the Early Dynastic Period of Mesopotamia (c. 2900 – c. 2350 BCE). Among the Hittites, El was known as Elkunirša (Hittite: 𒂖𒆪𒉌𒅕𒊭 Elkunīrša). Although El gained different appearances and meanings in different languages over time, it continues to exist as El-, -il or -el in compound proper noun phrases such as Elizabeth, Ishmael, Israel, Samuel, Daniel, Michael, Gabriel, Manuel and Bethel.