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 27:9אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ · your God
    Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: “Be silent, O Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.
  2. Deuteronomy 27:10אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ · your God
    You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and statutes I am giving you today.”
  3. Deuteronomy 28:1אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God
    “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
  4. Deuteronomy 28:2אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ · your God
    And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:
  5. Deuteronomy 28:8אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
  6. Deuteronomy 28:9אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
  7. Deuteronomy 28:13אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ · your God
    The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
  8. Deuteronomy 28:14אֱלֹהִ֥ים · gods
    Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.
  9. Deuteronomy 28:15אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  10. Deuteronomy 28:36אֱלֹהִ֥ים · gods
    The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
  11. Deuteronomy 28:45אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
  12. Deuteronomy 28:47אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
  13. Deuteronomy 28:52אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
  14. Deuteronomy 28:53אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ · your God
    Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
  15. Deuteronomy 28:58אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ · your God
    If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—
  16. Deuteronomy 28:62אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ · your God
    You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
  17. Deuteronomy 28:64אֱלֹהִ֣ים · gods
    Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
  18. Deuteronomy 29:6אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ · your God
    You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
  19. Deuteronomy 29:10אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם · your God
    All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,
  20. Deuteronomy 29:12אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ
    …so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
  21. Deuteronomy 29:13לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים · God
    …and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  22. Deuteronomy 29:15אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ · our God
    …but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.
  23. Deuteronomy 29:18אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ · our God; אֱלֹהֵ֖י · the gods
    Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
  24. Deuteronomy 29:25אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
  25. Deuteronomy 29:26אֱלֹהִ֣ים · gods; אֱלֹהִים֙ · gods
    They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.
  26. Deuteronomy 29:29אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ · our God
    The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
  27. Deuteronomy 30:1אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    “When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
  28. Deuteronomy 30:2אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God
    …and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
  29. Deuteronomy 30:3אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ; אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    …then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.
  30. Deuteronomy 30:4אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ
    Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.
  31. Deuteronomy 30:5אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ · your God
    And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.
  32. Deuteronomy 30:6אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ
    The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
  33. Deuteronomy 30:7אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.
  34. Deuteronomy 30:9אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ · your God
    So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,
  35. Deuteronomy 30:10אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ
    …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.
  36. Deuteronomy 30:16אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God; אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
  37. Deuteronomy 30:17לֵאלֹהִ֥ים · gods
    But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,
  38. Deuteronomy 30:20אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    …and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  39. Deuteronomy 31:3אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ · your God
    The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.
  40. Deuteronomy 31:6אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ · your God
    Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.”
  41. Deuteronomy 31:11אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    …when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.
  42. Deuteronomy 31:12אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם · your God
    Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.