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

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Occurrences

2,600 total
  1. Deuteronomy 8:18אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.
  2. Deuteronomy 8:19אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהִ֣ים · gods
    If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
  3. Deuteronomy 8:20אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃פ · your God
    Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
  4. Deuteronomy 9:3אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ · your God
    But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.
  5. Deuteronomy 9:4אֱלֹהֶ֨יךָ · your God
    When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
  6. Deuteronomy 9:5אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God
    It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  7. Deuteronomy 9:6אֱ֠לֹהֶיךָ · your God
    Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
  8. Deuteronomy 9:7אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
  9. Deuteronomy 9:10אֱלֹהִ֑ים · of God
    Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.
  10. Deuteronomy 9:16אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם · your God
    And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
  11. Deuteronomy 9:23אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם · your God
    And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.
  12. Deuteronomy 10:9אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    That is why Levi has no portion or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God promised him.
  13. Deuteronomy 10:12אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
  14. Deuteronomy 10:14אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
  15. Deuteronomy 10:17אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם · your God; אֱלֹהֵ֣י · is God; הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of gods
    For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
  16. Deuteronomy 10:20אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ · your God
    You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
  17. Deuteronomy 10:21אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ · is your God
    He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.
  18. Deuteronomy 10:22אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
  19. Deuteronomy 11:1אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ · your God
    You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
  20. Deuteronomy 11:2אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם · your God
    Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;
  21. Deuteronomy 11:12אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God
    It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.
  22. Deuteronomy 11:13אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֙ · your God
    So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
  23. Deuteronomy 11:16אֱלֹהִ֣ים · gods
    But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,
  24. Deuteronomy 11:22אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֛ם · your God
    For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
  25. Deuteronomy 11:25אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֗ם · your God
    No man will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you.
  26. Deuteronomy 11:27אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם · your God
    …a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
  27. Deuteronomy 11:28אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם · your God; אֱלֹהִ֥ים · gods
    …but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
  28. Deuteronomy 11:29אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
  29. Deuteronomy 11:31אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם · your God
    For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,
  30. Deuteronomy 12:1אֱלֹהֵ֧י · the God
    These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.
  31. Deuteronomy 12:2אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם · their gods
    Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  32. Deuteronomy 12:3אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶ֖ם · of their gods
    Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
  33. Deuteronomy 12:4אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ · your God
    You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way.
  34. Deuteronomy 12:5אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֙ · your God
    Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
  35. Deuteronomy 12:7אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם · your God; אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ · your God
    There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.
  36. Deuteronomy 12:9אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
  37. Deuteronomy 12:10אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם · your God
    When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,
  38. Deuteronomy 12:11אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֥ם · your God
    …then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
  39. Deuteronomy 12:12אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֒ · your God
    And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
  40. Deuteronomy 12:15אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ · your God
    But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
  41. Deuteronomy 12:18אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶיךָ֮ · your God
    Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,