Immanuel

Immanuel is a Hebrew name ( עִמָּנוּ אֵל "God ( is / was ) with us"), originally the biblical prophet Isaiah subject of a promise is ( 7,14 EU). In the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament, the name is related to Jesus Christ (Matthew 1.23 EU).

The Latin and Greek form of the masculine name is Emanuel.

  • 2.1 first name
  • 2.2 Surname

Mention in the Bible

Prophet Isaiah

The name Immanuel is in the prophetic book of Isaiah to three times. It is significant especially the Receiving Section 7,14:

" Therefore the Lord will give you by itself a sign: Behold, a virgin shall be with child and will bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel. "

It is in Isaiah 7.14 to 17 EU by a prophetic sign to the address of the Judean King Ahaz. After a young woman is a son by the name of "With us ( is ) God " bear that will have not yet achieved any moral responsibility, to the state of Judah is fallen into extraordinary danger from his enemies Israel and Aram. The Hebrew text used as the label of the mother's word עַלְמָה ( almah ), which simply means " young woman ". Already, however, the Greek translation of the Tanakh, the Septuagint uses the word here παρθένος ( parthenos ), which means even initially only " young woman ", but a tendency to meaning "virgin" has.

Because of the positive content of the name " God with us" is often assumed in the exegesis that the name for the son of Ahaz, the future King Hezekiah is. This could actually defend the kingdom of Judah against the Assyrian supremacy.

At the two other places where the name Immanuel in Isaiah occurs (Isa 8,8.10 EU), it seems to be due to the associated negative statements about a disaster warning to act, which seeks to preserve the kingdom of Judah before the Assyrian power.

Whether the image that Isaiah is characterized by the appearance of Immanuel, heard from out in an explicitly messianic context is controversial in the exegetical research.

Gospel of Matthew

Matthew identifies Jesus in Matthew 1.23 EU as the promised in Isaiah 7:14 son named Immanuel:

" Behold, a virgin shall be with child, she will give birth to a son, and you shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted. God is with us "

This site is in Christianity understood as evidence of Jesus' messiahship and his virgin birth ( cf. Lk 1.26 to 35 EU also ). The Greek text used as the Septuagint to 7,14 here the word παρθένος. Where the Hebrew word almah still only means a young, unmarried woman, parthenos can also refer to a biological virginity. The Christian dogmatics understands the birth of Jesus in this sense.

Jesus is referred to in the New Testament in no other place with the name Immanuel.

Well-known bearers of the name

First name

  • Immanuel ha - Romi ( Manuello Romano; ~ 1261 - ~ 1335), Italian poet in Hebrew and Italian
  • Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher
  • Immanuel Nobel (1801-1872), Swedish inventor and industrialist
  • Carl Philipp Emmanuel Hesse (1875-1918), Baltic German pastor and martyr of Protestant
  • Immanuel Wallerstein ( born 1930 ), American social scientists
  • Immanuel Bloch (born 1972 ), German physicist

Last name

  • Rebecca Immanuel (* 1970), German actress
Prophecy Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) Dogmatic theology
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