adonoi

Continued from Chapter 6 (Genesis 18:30) The word,’adon, “lord” (plural, ’adonai ), may be used in the singular or the plural to refer to a divine or human lord. But, how are we to understand the meaning of the related word form ’adonoi (with the long vowel qametz), used over four hundred times in the Bible in reference to Y-H-V-H? To this end, we need to establish the meaning of the -ai (alt. -oi) ending in ’adonoi. It may be that this is an honorific title in the first person suffixed form