El-elohe-israel

El-elohe-israel is the name Jacob gives the altar he sets up at Shechem on his return to Canaan from Paddan-aram.

Jacob's Altar at Shechem

After arriving "in peace to the city of Shechem" and buying ground there from the sons of Hamor (Ge 33:18-19), Jacob marks the place by raising an altar and naming it: "And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-israel" (Ge 33:20). The name binds together "God" and "Israel" — the new name Jacob himself had been given — fixing the altar as the personal claim of the renamed patriarch on Yahweh as his own God on the soil he has just purchased.