Genesis 17:11

“And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, etc.] Or “the foreskin of your flesh” f1074; by an hypallage f1075, the manner in which this was performed may be seen in the Jewish writers f1076, as well as the cure of the wound made, is particularly described by Leo Modena f1077, and which when performed, they used to provide a dish full of sand to put the foreskin into; which was done, as Buxtorf f1078 relates, to show that their seed should be as the sand of the sea, and to call to mind what Balaam said of them, (<042310>Numbers 23:10); and with respect to the old serpent that deceived man, whose food is the dust of the earth, (<010314>Genesis 3:14): the instrument with which this…”

“- The Sealing of the Covenant 1. שׁדי shaday, Shaddai, “Irresistible, able to destroy, and by inference to make, Almighty.” שׁדד shādad “be strong, destroy.” This name is found six times in Genesis, and thirty-one times in Job. 5. אברהם 'abrâhām, Abraham, from אברם 'abrām “high-father,” and הם hām the radical part of המין hāmôn a “multitude,” is obtained by a euphonic abbreviation אברהם 'abrâhām, “father of a multitude.” The root רהם rhm is a variation of רום rvm; affording, however, a link of connection in sound and sense with the root המה hāmâh “hum, be tumultuous,” from which comes המון hāmôn a “multitude.” The confluence of the biliterals רם rm and הם hm yields the…”