Genesis 33:20
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And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.

altar.

Genesis 8:20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

Genesis 12:7,8 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. . . .

Genesis 13:18 So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 21:33 And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.

El-elohe-Israel.

Genesis 32:28 But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

Genesis 35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.

Context
Jacob Settles in Shechem
19And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred lambs. 20And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.
Cross References
John 4:20
Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.

Genesis 33:19
And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred lambs.

Genesis 34:1
And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that country.

Lexicon
There
שָׁ֖ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 8033: There, then, thither

he set up
וַיַּצֶּב־ (way·yaṣ·ṣeḇ-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5324: To take one's stand, stand

an altar
מִזְבֵּ֑חַ (miz·bê·aḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4196: An altar

and called it
וַיִּ֨קְרָא־ (way·yiq·rā-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7121: To call, proclaim, read

El-Elohe-Israel.
אֵ֖ל (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty


Additional Translations
There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.

And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-israel.

And he set up there an alter, and called on the God of Israel.

And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.

And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.

He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God -- the God of Israel.
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