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 Kings 4:42הָאֱלֹהִ֜ים · of God
    Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
  2. 2 Kings 5:7הַאֱלֹהִ֥ים · God
    When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
  3. 2 Kings 5:8הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים · of God
    Now when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king: “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let the man come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
  4. 2 Kings 5:11אֱלֹהָ֔יו · his God
    But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out, stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the spot to cure my leprosy.
  5. 2 Kings 5:14הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · of God
    So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.
  6. 2 Kings 5:15הָאֱלֹהִ֜ים · of God; אֱלֹהִים֙ · God
    Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “Now I know for sure that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
  7. 2 Kings 5:17לֵאלֹהִ֣ים · god
    “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.
  8. 2 Kings 5:20הָאֱלֹהִים֒ · of God
    Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, by not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
  9. 2 Kings 6:6הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · of God
    “Where did it fall?” asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.
  10. 2 Kings 6:9הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים · of God
    Then the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Be careful not to pass by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”
  11. 2 Kings 6:10הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים · of God
    So the king of Israel sent word to the place the man of God had pointed out. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.
  12. 2 Kings 6:15הָֽאֱלֹהִים֮ · of God
    When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, behold, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”
  13. 2 Kings 6:31אֱלֹהִ֖ים · May God
    He announced, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders through this day!”
  14. 2 Kings 7:2הָאֱלֹהִים֮ · of God
    But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
  15. 2 Kings 7:17הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of God
    Now the king had appointed the officer on whose arm he leaned to be in charge of the gate, but the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king had come to him.
  16. 2 Kings 7:18הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of God
    It happened just as the man of God had told the king: “About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel.”
  17. 2 Kings 7:19הָאֱלֹהִים֮ · of God
    And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
  18. 2 Kings 8:2הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · of God
    So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instructed. And she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines.
  19. 2 Kings 8:4הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · of God
    Now the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”
  20. 2 Kings 8:7הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · of God
    Then Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”
  21. 2 Kings 8:8הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · of God
    So the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
  22. 2 Kings 8:11הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ · of God
    Elisha fixed his gaze steadily on him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the man of God began to weep.
  23. 2 Kings 9:6אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    So Jehu got up and went into the house, where the young prophet poured the oil on his head and declared, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the LORD’s people Israel.
  24. 2 Kings 10:31אֱלֹהֵֽי־ · the God
    Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
  25. 2 Kings 13:19הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים · of God
    But the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to it. But now you will strike down Aram only three times.”
  26. 2 Kings 14:25אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
  27. 2 Kings 16:2אֱלֹהָ֖יו · his God
    Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
  28. 2 Kings 17:7אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֔ם · their God; אֱלֹהִ֥ים · gods
    All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods
  29. 2 Kings 17:9אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם · their God
    The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.
  30. 2 Kings 17:14אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃ · their God
    But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
  31. 2 Kings 17:16אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֔ם · their God
    They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
  32. 2 Kings 17:19אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם · their God
    …and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
  33. 2 Kings 17:26אֱלֹהֵ֣י · of the God; אֱלֹהֵ֥י
    So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The peoples that you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Because of this, He has sent lions among them, which are indeed killing them off.”
  34. 2 Kings 17:27אֱלֹהֵ֥י · of the God
    Then the king of Assyria commanded: “Send back one of the priests you carried off from Samaria, and have him go back to live there and teach the requirements of the God of the land.”
  35. 2 Kings 17:29אֱלֹהָ֑יו · their own gods
    Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.
  36. 2 Kings 17:33אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶם֙ · their own gods
    They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.
  37. 2 Kings 17:35אֱלֹהִ֣ים · gods
    For the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not worship other gods or bow down to them; do not serve them or sacrifice to them.
  38. 2 Kings 17:37אֱלֹהִ֥ים · gods
    And you must always be careful to observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments He wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.
  39. 2 Kings 17:38אֱלֹהִ֥ים · gods
    Do not forget the covenant I have made with you. Do not worship other gods,
  40. 2 Kings 17:39אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם · your God
    …but worship the LORD your God, and He will deliver you from the hands of all your enemies.”
  41. 2 Kings 18:5אֱלֹהֵֽי־ · the God
    Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. No king of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.
  42. 2 Kings 18:12אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֔ם · their God
    This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded—and would neither listen nor obey.
  43. 2 Kings 18:22אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ · our God
    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
  44. 2 Kings 18:33אֱלֹהֵ֥י · Has the god
    Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
  45. 2 Kings 18:34אֱלֹהֵ֨י · are the gods; אֱלֹהֵ֥י · are the gods
    Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
  46. 2 Kings 18:35אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the gods
    Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”