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
- Nehemiah 1:5אֱלֹהֵ֣י · GodThen I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,
- Nehemiah 2:4אֱלֹהֵ֖י · the God“What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven
- Nehemiah 2:8אֱלֹהַ֖י · of my GodAnd may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.
- Nehemiah 2:12אֱלֹהַי֙ · my GodI set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.
- Nehemiah 2:18אֱלֹהַ֗י · of my GodI also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me, and what the king had said to me. “Let us start rebuilding,” they replied, and they set their hands to this good work.
- Nehemiah 2:20אֱלֹהֵ֣י · The GodSo I answered them and said, “The God of heaven is the One who will grant us success. We, His servants, will start rebuilding, but you have no portion, right, or claim in Jerusalem.”
- Nehemiah 4:4אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ · O GodHear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.
- Nehemiah 4:9אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ · our GodSo we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.
- Nehemiah 4:15הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · and that GodWhen our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.
- Nehemiah 4:20אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ · Our GodWherever you hear the sound of the horn, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us!”
- Nehemiah 5:9אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ · of our GodSo I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?
- Nehemiah 5:13הָֽאֱלֹהִ֟ים · May GodI also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of his house and possessions every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.
- Nehemiah 5:15אֱלֹהִֽים׃ · of GodThe governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.
- Nehemiah 5:19אֱלֹהַ֖י · O my GodRemember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.
- Nehemiah 6:10הָאֱלֹהִ֜ים · of GodLater, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: “Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you!”
- Nehemiah 6:12אֱלֹהִ֖ים · that GodI realized that God had not sent him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
- Nehemiah 6:14אֱלֹהַ֛י · O my GodO my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me.
- Nehemiah 6:16אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ · our GodWhen all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and disheartened, for they realized that this task had been accomplished by our God.
- Nehemiah 7:2הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · GodThen I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the fortress, because he was a faithful man who feared God more than most.
- Nehemiah 7:5אֱלֹהַי֙ · Then my GodThen my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:
- Nehemiah 8:6הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · GodThen Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with their hands uplifted, all the people said, “Amen, Amen!” Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
- Nehemiah 8:8הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · of GodSo they read from the Book of the Law of God, explaining it and giving insight, so that the people could understand what was being read.
- Nehemiah 8:9אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֔ם · your GodNehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.
- Nehemiah 8:16הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · of GodAnd the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.
- Nehemiah 8:18הָאֱלֹהִים֙ · of GodDay after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.
- Nehemiah 9:3אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֖ם · their God; אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃פ · their GodWhile they stood in their places, they read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day, and they spent another quarter of the day in confession and worship of the LORD their God.
- Nehemiah 9:4אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃ · their GodAnd the Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani—stood on the raised platform and cried out in a loud voice to the LORD their God.
- Nehemiah 9:5אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם · your GodThen the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting: Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.
- Nehemiah 9:7הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · the GodYou are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
- Nehemiah 9:18אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · is your GodEven when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,
- Nehemiah 9:32אֱ֠לֹהֵינוּ · our GodSo now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
- Nehemiah 10:28הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of God“The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand,
- Nehemiah 10:29הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of God; הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים · [His]…hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.
- Nehemiah 10:32אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ · of our GodWe also place ourselves under the obligation to contribute a third of a shekel yearly for the service of the house of our God:
- Nehemiah 10:33אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ס · of our God…for the showbread, for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings, for the Sabbath offerings, for the New Moons and appointed feasts, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the duties of the house of our God.
- Nehemiah 10:34אֱלֹהֵ֧ינוּ · of our God; אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ · our GodWe have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our families at the appointed times each year. They are to bring it to the house of our God to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.
- Nehemiah 10:36אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ · of our God; אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ · of our GodAnd we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.
- Nehemiah 10:37אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ · of our GodMoreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.
- Nehemiah 10:38אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ · of our GodA priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.
- Nehemiah 10:39אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ · of our GodFor the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”
- Nehemiah 11:11הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ · of GodSeraiah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the chief official of the house of God;
- Nehemiah 11:16הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים · of GodShabbethai and Jozabad, two leaders of the Levites, who supervised the work outside the house of God;
- Nehemiah 11:22הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ · of GodNow the overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica. He was one of Asaph’s descendants, who were the singers in charge of the service of the house of God.
- Nehemiah 12:24הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · of GodThe leaders of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, along with their associates, who stood across from them to give praise and thanksgiving as one section alternated with the other, as prescribed by David the man of God.
- Nehemiah 12:36הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · of God…and his associates—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani—with the musical instruments prescribed by David the man of God. Ezra the scribe led the procession.
- Nehemiah 12:40הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · of GodThe two thanksgiving choirs then stood in the house of God, as did I, along with the half of the officials accompanying me,