Footnote 2 – Lemaire’s Restoration of Combination I

The word is shaddayin, the plural of the related Hebrew word shadday, which is usually translated “Almighty” as in El-Shadday, “God Almighty.” The philological evidence seems to indicate that shadday originally meant “the one of the mountains”; that is, a mountain god. The plural used at Deir ‘Alla may refer to a divine council where major decisions were made.