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
- 1 Samuel 23:10אֱלֹהֵ֣י · GodAnd David said, “O LORD, God of Israel, Your servant has heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city on my account.
- 1 Samuel 23:11אֱלֹהֵ֣י · GodWill the citizens of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O LORD, God of Israel, please tell Your servant.” “He will,” said the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 23:14אֱלֹהִ֖ים · but GodAnd David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
- 1 Samuel 23:16בֵּאלֹהִֽים׃ · in GodAnd Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and strengthened his hand in God,
- 1 Samuel 25:22אֱלֹהִ֛ים · May GodMay God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one male belonging to Nabal survive until morning.”
- 1 Samuel 25:29אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your GodAnd should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
- 1 Samuel 25:32אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the GodThen David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day!
- 1 Samuel 25:34אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the GodOtherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
- 1 Samuel 26:8אֱלֹהִ֥ים · GodAbishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”
- 1 Samuel 26:19אֱלֹהִ֥ים · godsNow please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
- 1 Samuel 28:13אֱלֹהִ֥ים · a god“Do not be afraid,” the king replied. “What do you see?” “I see a god coming up out of the earth,” the woman answered.
- 1 Samuel 28:15וֵֽאלֹהִ֞ים · and GodThen Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am deeply distressed,” replied Saul. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has turned away from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”
- 1 Samuel 29:9אֱלֹהִ֑ים · of GodAchish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’
- 1 Samuel 30:6אֱלֹהָֽיו׃ס · his GodAnd David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
- 1 Samuel 30:15בֵֽאלֹהִ֜ים · by God“Will you lead me to these raiders?” David asked. And the man replied, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hand of my master, and I will lead you to them.”
- 2 Samuel 2:27הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים · As surely as God“As surely as God lives,” Joab replied, “if you had not spoken up, the troops would have continued pursuing their brothers until morning.”
- 2 Samuel 3:9אֱלֹהִים֙ · May GodMay God punish Abner, and ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD has sworn to him:
- 2 Samuel 3:35אֱלֹהִים֙ · May GodThen all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”
- 2 Samuel 5:10אֱלֹהֵ֥י · GodAnd David became greater and greater, for the LORD God of Hosts was with him.
- 2 Samuel 6:2הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of GodAnd he and all his troops set out for Baale of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name—the name of the LORD of Hosts, who is enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.
- 2 Samuel 6:3הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ · of GodThey set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart,
- 2 Samuel 6:4הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · of God…bringing with it the ark of God. And Ahio was walking in front of the ark.
- 2 Samuel 6:6הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ · of GodWhen they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled.
- 2 Samuel 6:7הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · and God; הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ · of GodAnd the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.
- 2 Samuel 6:12הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · of God; הָאֱלֹהִ֜ים · of GodNow it was reported to King David, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing.
- 2 Samuel 7:2הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of God…he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”
- 2 Samuel 7:22אֱלֹהִים֙ · GodHow great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
- 2 Samuel 7:23אֱ֠לֹהִים · God; וֵאלֹהָֽיו׃ · and their godsAnd who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.
- 2 Samuel 7:24לֵאלֹהִֽים׃ס · GodFor You have established Your people Israel as Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.
- 2 Samuel 7:25אֱלֹהִ֔ים · GodAnd now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised,
- 2 Samuel 7:26אֱלֹהִ֖ים · is God…so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.’ And the house of Your servant David will be established before You.
- 2 Samuel 7:27אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the GodFor You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.
- 2 Samuel 7:28הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים · GodAnd now, O Lord GOD, You are God! Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant.
- 2 Samuel 9:3אֱלֹהִ֑ים · of GodSo the king asked, “Is there anyone left of the house of Saul to whom I can show the kindness of God?” Ziba answered, “There is still Jonathan’s son, who is lame in both feet.”
- 2 Samuel 10:12אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ · of our GodBe strong and let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do what is good in His sight.”
- 2 Samuel 12:7אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the GodThen Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
- 2 Samuel 12:16הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · with GodDavid pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
- 2 Samuel 14:11אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ · your God“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”
- 2 Samuel 14:13אֱלֹהִ֑ים · of GodThe woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
- 2 Samuel 14:14אֱלֹהִים֙ · Yet GodFor we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
- 2 Samuel 14:16אֱלֹהִֽים׃ · from God’sFor the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’
- 2 Samuel 14:17הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים · of God; אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your GodAnd now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
- 2 Samuel 14:20הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of GodJoab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”
- 2 Samuel 15:24הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of God; הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of GodZadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had passed out of the city.
- 2 Samuel 15:25הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · of GodThen the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.