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. 1 Kings 9:9בֵּאלֹהִ֣ים · gods
    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.’”
  2. 1 Kings 10:9אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God
    Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
  3. 1 Kings 10:24אֱלֹהִ֖ים · God
    The whole world sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
  4. 1 Kings 11:2אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם · their gods
    These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
  5. 1 Kings 11:4אֱלֹהִ֣ים · gods; אֱלֹהָ֔יו · his God
    For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
  6. 1 Kings 11:5אֱלֹהֵ֖י · the goddess
    Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
  7. 1 Kings 11:8לֵאלֹהֵיהֶֽן׃ · to their gods
    He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
  8. 1 Kings 11:9אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
  9. 1 Kings 11:10אֱלֹהִ֣ים · gods
    Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.
  10. 1 Kings 11:23אֱלֹהִ֥ים · And God
    And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,
  11. 1 Kings 11:31אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    …and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.
  12. 1 Kings 11:33אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the goddess; אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the god; אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the god
    For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
  13. 1 Kings 12:22הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of God; הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · of God
    But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:
  14. 1 Kings 12:28אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · are your gods
    After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
  15. 1 Kings 13:1אֱלֹהִ֗ים · of God
    Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.
  16. 1 Kings 13:4הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים · of God
    Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
  17. 1 Kings 13:5הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · of God
    And the altar was split apart, and the ashes poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
  18. 1 Kings 13:6הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים · of God; אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God; הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ · of God
    Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.
  19. 1 Kings 13:7הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of God
    Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”
  20. 1 Kings 13:8הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ · of God
    But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
  21. 1 Kings 13:11הָאֱלֹהִ֨ים׀ · of God
    Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.
  22. 1 Kings 13:12הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of God
    “Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.
  23. 1 Kings 13:14הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of God; הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים · of God
    …and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.
  24. 1 Kings 13:21הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים · of God; אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ · your God
    …and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
  25. 1 Kings 13:26הָאֱלֹהִ֣ים · of God
    When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”
  26. 1 Kings 13:29הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים · of God
    So the old prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.
  27. 1 Kings 13:31הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · of God
    After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,
  28. 1 Kings 14:7אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.
  29. 1 Kings 14:9אֱלֹהִ֨ים · gods
    You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
  30. 1 Kings 14:13אֱלֹהֵ֥י · the God
    All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.
  31. 1 Kings 15:3אֱלֹהָ֔יו · his God
    And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
  32. 1 Kings 15:4אֱלֹהָ֥יו · his God
    Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
  33. 1 Kings 15:30אֱלֹהֵ֥י · the God
    …because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he had provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
  34. 1 Kings 16:13אֱלֹהֵ֥י · the God
    This happened because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.
  35. 1 Kings 16:26אֱלֹהֵ֥י · the God
    For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins, which he caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.
  36. 1 Kings 16:33אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.
  37. 1 Kings 17:1אֱלֹהֵ֤י · the God
    Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
  38. 1 Kings 17:12אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · your God
    But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”
  39. 1 Kings 17:14אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    …for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’”
  40. 1 Kings 17:18הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · of God
    “O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”
  41. 1 Kings 17:20אֱלֹהָ֔י · my God
    Then he cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, by causing her son to die?”
  42. 1 Kings 17:21אֱלֹהָ֔י · my God
    Then he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boy’s life return to him!”