"EL ROI". What Does It Really Mean?
EL ROI. El roi means the God who sees. El(God) roi(see) It is drawn from Hagar's wilderness encounter with God in Genesis 16:6-14, when she felt mistreated by her mistress Sarah & fled from her face. "Beerlahairoi" - was Hagar's exact term ie. the name she called the Lord who spoke to her, as she realized the wonderful care of the Lord for her, how He had met her in her need when she was fleeing from her mistress. "Beerlahairoi" Transliteration: be'êr lachay rô'ı̂y Origin: from be'êr(well), chay(living) and rô'eh(seer/vision) "Beerlahairoi" means the well of the Living One seeing me; the Living One who sees me. That is what it is. It is the "well of Him that liveth and seeth" us, the well of God, the living water. The well itself is figurative of the Holy Spirit; He is the living waters, the living One who is always with us and from whose presence/face we cannot flee/escape so we live by the well & bef...