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. Jeremiah 3:23אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ · our God
    Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
  2. Jeremiah 3:25אֱלֹהֵ֜ינוּ · our God; אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ס · our God
    Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
  3. Jeremiah 5:4אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃ · of their God
    Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
  4. Jeremiah 5:5אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם · of their God
    I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
  5. Jeremiah 5:7אֱלֹהִ֑ים · gods
    “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
  6. Jeremiah 5:14אֱלֹהֵ֣י · God
    Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
  7. Jeremiah 5:19אֱלֹהֵ֛ינוּ · our God; אֱלֹהֵ֤י · gods
    And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
  8. Jeremiah 5:24אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ · our God
    They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
  9. Jeremiah 7:3אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
  10. Jeremiah 7:6אֱלֹהִ֧ים · gods
    …if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
  11. Jeremiah 7:9אֱלֹהִ֥ים · gods
    Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
  12. Jeremiah 7:18לֵאלֹהִ֣ים · gods
    The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
  13. Jeremiah 7:21אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
  14. Jeremiah 7:23לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים · God
    …but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
  15. Jeremiah 7:28אֱלֹהָ֔יו · their God
    Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
  16. Jeremiah 8:14אֱלֹהֵ֤ינוּ · our God
    Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
  17. Jeremiah 9:15אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
  18. Jeremiah 10:10אֱלֹהִים֙ · God; אֱלֹהִ֥ים · God
    But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
  19. Jeremiah 11:3אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
  20. Jeremiah 11:4לֵאלֹהִֽים׃ · God
    …which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
  21. Jeremiah 11:10אֱלֹהִ֥ים · gods
    They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
  22. Jeremiah 11:12הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים · the gods
    Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.
  23. Jeremiah 11:13אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · Your gods
    Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’
  24. Jeremiah 13:10אֱלֹהִ֣ים · gods
    These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.
  25. Jeremiah 13:12אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    Therefore you are to tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Every wineskin shall be filled with wine.’ And when they reply, ‘Don’t we surely know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’
  26. Jeremiah 13:16אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֤ם · your God
    Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
  27. Jeremiah 14:22אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ · our God
    Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
  28. Jeremiah 15:16אֱלֹהֵ֥י · God
    Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
  29. Jeremiah 16:9אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
  30. Jeremiah 16:10אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ · our God
    When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
  31. Jeremiah 16:11אֱלֹהִ֣ים · gods
    Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
  32. Jeremiah 16:13אֱלֹהִ֤ים · gods
    So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
  33. Jeremiah 16:20אֱלֹהִ֑ים · gods; אֱלֹהִֽים׃ · gods
    Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”
  34. Jeremiah 19:3אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    …saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,
  35. Jeremiah 19:4לֵאלֹהִ֣ים · gods
    …because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
  36. Jeremiah 19:13לֵאלֹהִ֥ים · gods
    The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
  37. Jeremiah 19:15אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
  38. Jeremiah 21:4אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
  39. Jeremiah 22:9אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶ֑ם · their God; לֵאלֹהִ֥ים · gods
    Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”
  40. Jeremiah 23:2אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.
  41. Jeremiah 23:23הַאֱלֹהֵ֧י · a God; אֱלֹהֵ֖י · a God
    “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away?”
  42. Jeremiah 23:36אֱלֹהִ֣ים · God; אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ · our God
    But refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each man’s word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.
  43. Jeremiah 24:5אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.