Elohei-Shammayim
This name means "The Lord, The God of Heaven".
Now, unfortunately, the source from which I've been reading as provided a verse which brings no mention to God at all, let alone this name. Still we can look at this name and see it's imports.
The biggest thins is that here, God is named the God of heaven. Most cultures accepted that there was a god/pantheon of gods that existed in a supernatural location known as heaven (or by various different names, but the concept is the same). Since God is named God of heaven, he is automatically exalted above any other gods as he is the god of their realm. Again, we see God's primacy and superiority over the foreign, false gods.
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