WAR, MAN OF

('ish milchamah):

"Yahweh is a man of war:

Yahweh is his name" (Exodus 15:3).

In early Israel the character of Yahweh as the war-God forms a prominent feature in the conception of God (Numbers 10:35; 21:14; Joshua 5:13; 10:11; Judges 5:4,13,20,23,31, etc.).

See GOD, 1 , NAMES OF GOD ,III , 8; LORD OF HOSTS ; andHDB , V, 635 ff.

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.