HebrewH0430Noun (Masculine)

אֱלֹהִים

e.lo.him

1,943Occurrences
H0430Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative

plural of H433 (אֱלוֹהַּ);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
This name means "gods" (plural intensive-singular meaning), "God" Another name of ye.ho.vah (*יהוה *"LORD" H3068G)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

אֱלֹהִים appears 1,943 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Deuteronomy
286
Genesis
185
2 Chronicles
160
Jeremiah
127
Psalms
115
Exodus
101
1 Chronicles
96
1 Samuel
90

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 10:10BSB

They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.

2 Chronicles 33:18BSB

As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, they are indeed written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

Deuteronomy 30:10BSB

if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Genesis 27:20BSB

But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?”“Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.

Jeremiah 50:40BSB

As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrahalong with their neighbors,”declares the LORD,“no one will dwell there;no man will abide there.

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