I Am that I Am

DRAMA,

For other uses, see I Am What I Am, I Am, and I Am Who I Am. For the song by Peter Tosh, see Equal Rights (album). "Hayah" redirects here. For the village in Iran, see Hayyeh.
  
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 popular opposition,  shame, scandal, or discouragement.
I Am that I Am (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה, ehyeh ašer ehyeh [ehˈje aˈʃer ehˈje]) is a traditional common English translation (JPS among others) of the response God used in the Hebrew Bible when Moses asked for his name (Exodus 3:14). It is one of the most famous verses in the Torah. Hayah means "to be" or "to become" in Hebrew; "ehyeh" is the root word derived from "Hayah" and is to be translated in English Bibles as "I will be" (or "I will become"), for example, at Exodus 3:14. Ehyeh asher ehyeh literally translates as "I Will Be What I Will Be" or "I Will Become What I Will Become", according to accurate translation of the Hebrew language. However, in the great majority of English Bibles, in particular the King James Version, this phrase is rendered as I Am That I Am" which is originally derived from Roman Catholic tradition, although evidently inaccurate. Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh (often contracted in English as "I AM") is one of the Seven Names of God accorded special care by medieval Jewish tradition.[1] The phrase is also found in other world religious literature, used to describe the Supreme Being, generally referring back to its use in Exodus. The word Ehyeh is considered by many rabbinical scholars to be a first-person derivation of the Tetragrammaton, see for example Yahweh.