אֱלֹהִים

e.lo.himGod
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.

Glossary entries

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

Where it occurs

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

2,600 total
  1. Genesis 3:5כֵּֽאלֹהִ֔ים · and you will be like God
    “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
  2. Genesis 3:8 (2×)אֱלֹהִ֛ים · God; אֱלֹהִ֔ים · God
    Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
  3. Genesis 3:9אֱלֹהִ֖ים · God
    But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
  4. Genesis 3:13אֱלֹהִ֛ים · God
    Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
  5. Genesis 3:14אֱלֹהִ֥ים׀ · God
    So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
  6. Genesis 3:21אֱלֹהִ֜ים · God
    And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
  7. Genesis 3:22אֱלֹהִ֗ים · God
    Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
  8. Genesis 3:23אֱלֹהִ֖ים · God
    Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
  9. Genesis 4:25אֱלֹהִים֙ · God
    And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
  10. Genesis 5:1 (2×)אֱלֹהִים֙ · that God; אֱלֹהִ֖ים
    This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
  11. Genesis 5:22הָֽאֱלֹהִ֗ים · God
    And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
  12. Genesis 5:24 (2×)הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים · God; אֱלֹהִֽים׃פ · God
    Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.
  13. Genesis 6:2הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ · of God
    …the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
  14. Genesis 6:4הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ · of God
    The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
  15. Genesis 6:9הָֽאֱלֹהִ֖ים · God
    This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
  16. Genesis 6:11הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים · of God
    Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
  17. Genesis 6:12אֱלֹהִ֛ים · And God
    And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
  18. Genesis 6:13אֱלֹהִ֜ים · Then God
    Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
  19. Genesis 6:22אֱלֹהִ֖ים · God
    So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
  20. Genesis 7:9אֱלֹהִ֖ים · God
    …came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
  21. Genesis 7:16אֱלֹהִ֑ים · God
    And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
  22. Genesis 8:1 (2×)אֱלֹהִים֙ · God; אֱלֹהִ֥ים · And God
    But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
  23. Genesis 8:15אֱלֹהִ֖ים · Then God
    Then God said to Noah,
  24. Genesis 9:1אֱלֹהִ֔ים · And God
    And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
  25. Genesis 9:6אֱלֹהִ֔ים · in His own
    Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
  26. Genesis 9:8אֱלֹהִים֙ · Then God
    Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
  27. Genesis 9:12אֱלֹהִ֗ים · And God
    And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
  28. Genesis 9:16אֱלֹהִ֔ים · God
    And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”
  29. Genesis 9:17אֱלֹהִ֖ים · So God
    So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
  30. Genesis 9:26אֱלֹ֣הֵי · the God
    He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
  31. Genesis 9:27אֱלֹהִים֙ · {May} God
    May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
  32. Genesis 17:3אֱלֹהִ֖ים · and God
    Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
  33. Genesis 17:7לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים · God
    I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
  34. Genesis 17:8לֵאלֹהִֽים׃ · God
    And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
  35. Genesis 17:9אֱלֹהִים֙ · God
    God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.
  36. Genesis 17:15אֱלֹהִים֙ · Then God
    Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
  37. Genesis 17:18הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים · God
    And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
  38. Genesis 17:19אֱלֹהִ֗ים · But God
    But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
  39. Genesis 17:22אֱלֹהִ֔ים · God
    When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
  40. Genesis 17:23אֱלֹהִֽים׃ · God
    On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
  41. Genesis 19:29 (2×)אֱלֹהִים֙ · when God; אֱלֹהִ֖ים · He
    So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
  42. Genesis 20:3אֱלֹהִ֛ים · God
    One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
  43. Genesis 20:6הָֽאֱלֹהִ֜ים · Then God
    Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
  44. Genesis 20:11אֱלֹהִ֔ים · of God
    Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
  45. Genesis 20:13אֱלֹהִים֮ · God
    So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”