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. 2 Samuel 15:29הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · of God
    So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and stayed there.
  2. 2 Samuel 15:32לֵאלֹהִ֑ים · God
    When David came to the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Archite was there to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head.
  3. 2 Samuel 16:23הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · of God
    Now in those days the advice of Ahithophel was like the consultation of the word of God. Such was the regard that both David and Absalom had for Ahithophel’s advice.
  4. 2 Samuel 18:28אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God
    Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he bowed facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.”
  5. 2 Samuel 19:13אֱלֹהִים֙ · May God
    And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from now on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
  6. 2 Samuel 19:27הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of God
    …and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
  7. 2 Samuel 21:14אֱלֹהִ֛ים · God
    And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.
  8. 2 Samuel 22:3אֱלֹהֵ֥י · My God [is]
    My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.
  9. 2 Samuel 22:7אֱלֹהַ֖י · my God
    In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.
  10. 2 Samuel 22:22מֵאֱלֹהָֽי׃ · from my God
    For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.
  11. 2 Samuel 22:30בֵּאלֹהַ֖י · with my God
    For in You I can charge an army; with my God I can scale a wall.
  12. 2 Samuel 22:32אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ · our God
    For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?
  13. 2 Samuel 22:47אֱלֹהֵ֖י · And may God
    The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—
  14. 2 Samuel 23:1אֱלֹהֵ֣י · by the God
    These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel:
  15. 2 Samuel 23:3אֱלֹהֵ֣י · The God; אֱלֹהִֽים׃ · of God
    The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,
  16. 2 Samuel 24:3אֱלֹהֶ֨יךָ · your God
    But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
  17. 2 Samuel 24:23אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    O king, Araunah gives all these to the king.” He also said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”
  18. 2 Samuel 24:24אֱלֹהַ֖י · my God
    “No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
  19. 1 Kings 1:17אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God
    “My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ‘Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.’
  20. 1 Kings 1:30אֱלֹהֵ֤י · the God
    I will carry out this very day exactly what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”
  21. 1 Kings 1:36אֱלֹהֵ֖י · the God
    “Amen,” replied Benaiah son of Jehoiada. “May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it.
  22. 1 Kings 1:47אֱלֹהֶיךָ · May your God
    The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than your own name, and may He make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king has bowed in worship on his bed,
  23. 1 Kings 1:48אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    …saying, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel! Today He has provided one to sit on my throne, and my eyes have seen it.’”
  24. 1 Kings 2:3אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ · your God
    And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
  25. 1 Kings 2:23אֱלֹהִים֙ · May God
    Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if Adonijah has not made this request at the expense of his life.
  26. 1 Kings 3:5אֱלֹהִ֔ים · and God
    One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
  27. 1 Kings 3:7אֱלֹהָ֔י · my God
    And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in.
  28. 1 Kings 3:11אֱלֹהִ֜ים · So God
    So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies—but you have asked for discernment to administer justice—
  29. 1 Kings 3:28אֱלֹהִ֛ים · of God
    When all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
  30. 1 Kings 4:29אֱלֹהִ֨ים · And God
    And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore.
  31. 1 Kings 5:3אֱלֹהָ֔יו · his God
    “As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.
  32. 1 Kings 5:4אֱלֹהַ֛י · my God
    But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or crisis.
  33. 1 Kings 5:5אֱלֹהָ֑י · my God
    So behold, I plan to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD said to my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My Name.’
  34. 1 Kings 8:15אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    …and said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
  35. 1 Kings 8:17אֱלֹהֵ֥י · the God
    Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
  36. 1 Kings 8:20אֱלֹהֵ֥י · the God
    Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
  37. 1 Kings 8:23אֱלֹהֵ֤י · God; אֱלֹהִ֔ים · God
    …and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
  38. 1 Kings 8:25אֱלֹהֵ֣י · God
    Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
  39. 1 Kings 8:26אֱלֹהֵ֣י · O God
    And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.
  40. 1 Kings 8:27אֱלֹהִ֖ים · will God
    But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
  41. 1 Kings 8:28אֱלֹהָ֑י · my God
    Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.
  42. 1 Kings 8:57אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ · our God
    May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us or forsake us.
  43. 1 Kings 8:59אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ · our God
    And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,
  44. 1 Kings 8:60הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · is God
    …so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no other!
  45. 1 Kings 8:61אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ · our God
    So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”
  46. 1 Kings 8:65אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ · our God
    So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
  47. 1 Kings 9:6אֱלֹהִ֣ים · gods
    But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
  48. 1 Kings 9:9אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֗ם · their God
    And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”