אֱלֹהִים

hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine2,600 occurrences35 books2,247 verses
This word comes from the name of LORD.

Definition

plural of H433; 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
Traditional renderings: angels, × exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), × (very) great, judges, × mighty.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אֱלֹהִים:

Glossary entries

Lord Righteousness Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? Eli Abba Most High

Usage patterns

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

2,600 total
  1. Deuteronomy 1:32אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ · your God
    But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,
  2. Deuteronomy 1:41אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ · our God
    “We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.
  3. Deuteronomy 2:7אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God
    Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
  4. Deuteronomy 2:29אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ · our God
    …just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
  5. Deuteronomy 2:30אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ · your God
    But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.
  6. Deuteronomy 2:33אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ · our God
    And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.
  7. Deuteronomy 2:36אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ · our God
    From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
  8. Deuteronomy 2:37אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ · our God
    But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.
  9. Deuteronomy 3:3אֱלֹהֵ֜ינוּ · our God
    So the LORD our God also delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We struck them down until no survivor was left.
  10. Deuteronomy 3:18אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֗ם · your God
    At that time I commanded you: “The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor are to cross over, armed for battle, ahead of your brothers, the Israelites.
  11. Deuteronomy 3:20אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֛ם · your God
    …until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they too have taken possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.”
  12. Deuteronomy 3:21אֱלֹהֵיכֶם֙ · your God
    And at that time I commanded Joshua: “Your own eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.
  13. Deuteronomy 3:22אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם · your God
    Do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God Himself will fight for you.”
  14. Deuteronomy 4:1אֱלֹהֵ֥י · the God
    Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
  15. Deuteronomy 4:2אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם · your God
    You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.
  16. Deuteronomy 4:3אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
  17. Deuteronomy 4:4אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם · your God
    But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.
  18. Deuteronomy 4:5אֱלֹהָ֑י · my God
    See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
  19. Deuteronomy 4:7אֱלֹהִ֖ים · a god; אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ · our God [is to us]
    For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?
  20. Deuteronomy 4:10אֱלֹהֶיךָ֮ · your God
    The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
  21. Deuteronomy 4:19אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God
    When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
  22. Deuteronomy 4:21אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  23. Deuteronomy 4:23אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם · your God; אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃
    Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.
  24. Deuteronomy 4:24אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
  25. Deuteronomy 4:25אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—
  26. Deuteronomy 4:28אֱלֹהִ֔ים · gods
    And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
  27. Deuteronomy 4:29אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  28. Deuteronomy 4:30אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
  29. Deuteronomy 4:31אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.
  30. Deuteronomy 4:32אֱלֹהִ֤ים׀ · God
    Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
  31. Deuteronomy 4:33אֱלֹהִ֜ים · of God
    Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?
  32. Deuteronomy 4:34אֱלֹהִ֗ים · has any god; אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֛ם · your God
    Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
  33. Deuteronomy 4:35הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · is God
    You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.
  34. Deuteronomy 4:39הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים · is God
    Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.
  35. Deuteronomy 4:40אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ · your God
    Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
  36. Deuteronomy 5:2אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ · our God
    The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
  37. Deuteronomy 5:6אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  38. Deuteronomy 5:7אֱלֹהִ֥֨ים · gods
    You shall have no other gods before Me.
  39. Deuteronomy 5:9אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God
    You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  40. Deuteronomy 5:11אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
  41. Deuteronomy 5:12אֱלֹהֶֽ֗יךָ׃ · your God
    Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
  42. Deuteronomy 5:14אֱלֹהֶ֑֗יךָ · your God
    …but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
  43. Deuteronomy 5:15אֱלֹהֶ֤֙יךָ֙ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  44. Deuteronomy 5:16אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.