War, Man Of
WAR, MAN OF [isbe]
WAR, MAN OF - ('ish milchamah):"Yahweh is a man of war:
Yahweh is his name" (Ex 15:3).
In early Israel the character of Yahweh as the war-God forms a prominent feature in the conception of God (Nu 10:35; 21:14; Josh 5:13; 10:11; Jdg 5:4,13,20,23,31, etc.).
See GOD, NAMES OF, III, 8; LORD OF HOSTS; and HDB, V, 635 ff.
