אֱלֹהִים
e.lo.himGodHow to read Hebrew
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.
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
Occurrences
2,600 total
- Deuteronomy 16:5אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodYou are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 16:6אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your GodYou must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 16:7אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodAnd you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.
- Deuteronomy 16:8אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your GodFor six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
- Deuteronomy 16:10אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ · your GodAnd you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,
- Deuteronomy 16:11אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ…and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
- Deuteronomy 16:15אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ · your GodFor seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.
- Deuteronomy 16:16אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ · your GodThree times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
- Deuteronomy 16:17אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodEveryone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you.
- Deuteronomy 16:18אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ · your GodYou are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
- Deuteronomy 16:20אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodPursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 16:21אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodDo not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
- Deuteronomy 16:22אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ס · your God…and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
- Deuteronomy 17:1אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodYou shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 17:2אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodIf a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
- Deuteronomy 17:3אֱלֹהִ֣ים · gods…and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—
- Deuteronomy 17:8אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodIf a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
- Deuteronomy 17:12אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your GodBut the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 17:14אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your GodWhen you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
- Deuteronomy 17:15אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God…you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
- Deuteronomy 17:19אֱלֹהָ֔יו · his GodIt is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.
- Deuteronomy 18:5אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodFor the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.
- Deuteronomy 18:7אֱלֹהָ֑יו · his God…then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 18:9אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodWhen you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
- Deuteronomy 18:12אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your GodFor whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.
- Deuteronomy 18:13אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ס · your GodYou must be blameless before the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 18:14אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ · your GodThough these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
- Deuteronomy 18:15אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ · your GodThe LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
- Deuteronomy 18:16אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God; אֱלֹהָ֔י · our GodThis is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”
- Deuteronomy 18:20אֱלֹהִ֣ים · godsBut if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”
- Deuteronomy 19:1אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָWhen the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
- Deuteronomy 19:2אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God…then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
- Deuteronomy 19:3אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ · your GodYou are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.
- Deuteronomy 19:8אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your GodAnd if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them,
- Deuteronomy 19:9אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ · your God…and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
- Deuteronomy 19:10אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your GodThus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
- Deuteronomy 19:14אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your GodYou must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
- Deuteronomy 20:1אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your GodWhen you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.
- Deuteronomy 20:4אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם · your GodFor the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”
- Deuteronomy 20:13אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodWhen the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
- Deuteronomy 20:14אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodBut the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 20:16אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your GodHowever, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
- Deuteronomy 20:17אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ · your GodFor you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,