WHAT DID ELOHIM MEAN?
This may be a very sound explanation just as it is, but Gill went a step further and also suggested that the sentence quoting Elohim might actually be better formed as a question! “…perhaps, by reading the words with an interrogation, the clause will appear more plain, ‘and by my name [Yahweh] was I not known to them?'” This also seems like a valid possibility, since the question mark is not a part of the written Hebrew language. As with so many other areas of scriptural understanding, the context in which we find the verse may show us the true answer. Since it’s evident that Elohim’s name was actually known and used from the days of Adam, the statement we’ve been looking at in Exodus 6:3 may indeed make more sense when phrased as a question!
