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.
Glossary entries
Lord Righteousness Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? Eli Abba Most High
Where it occurs
Occurrences
2,600 total
- Genesis 44:16הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים · God“What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed the iniquity of your servants. We are now my lord’s slaves—both we and the one who was found with the cup.”
- Genesis 45:5אֱלֹהִ֖ים · that GodAnd now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
- Genesis 45:7אֱלֹהִים֙ · GodGod sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- Genesis 45:8הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · GodTherefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 45:9אֱלֹהִ֛ים · GodNow return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
- Genesis 46:1לֵאלֹהֵ֖י · to the GodSo Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
- Genesis 46:2אֱלֹהִ֤ים׀ · GodAnd that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.
- Genesis 46:3אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
- Genesis 48:9אֱלֹהִ֖ים · GodJoseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” So Jacob said, “Please bring them to me, that I may bless them.”
- Genesis 48:11אֱלֹהִ֖ים · God“I never expected to see your face again,” Israel said to Joseph, “but now God has let me see your children as well.”
- Genesis 48:15 (2×)הָֽאֱלֹהִ֡ים · May the God; הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ · the GodThen he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
- Genesis 48:20אֱלֹהִ֔ים · May GodSo that day Jacob blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
- Genesis 48:21אֱלֹהִים֙ · but GodThen Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
- Genesis 50:17אֱלֹהֵ֣י · of the God‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.’ So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
- Genesis 50:19אֱלֹהִ֖ים · GodBut Joseph replied, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
- Genesis 50:20אֱלֹהִים֙ · GodAs for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
- Genesis 50:24וֵֽאלֹהִ֞ים · but GodThen Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
- Genesis 50:25אֱלֹהִים֙ · GodAnd Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”
- Exodus 1:17הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים · GodThe midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.
- Exodus 1:20אֱלֹהִ֖ים · So GodSo God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.
- Exodus 1:21הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · GodAnd because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.
- Exodus 2:23הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · GodAfter a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
- Exodus 2:24 (2×)אֱלֹהִ֖ים · So God; אֱלֹהִים֙ · and HeSo God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Exodus 2:25 (2×)אֱלֹהִ֖ים · God; אֱלֹהִֽים׃ס · andGod saw the Israelites and took notice.
- Exodus 3:1הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים · of GodMeanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Exodus 3:4אֱלֹהִ֜ים · GodWhen the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.
- Exodus 3:6 (5×)אֱלֹהֵ֣י · am the God; אֱלֹהֵ֧י · the God; אֱלֹהֵ֥י · the God; וֵאלֹהֵ֣י · and the God; הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ · GodThen He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
- Exodus 3:11הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים · GodBut Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
- Exodus 3:12הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים · God“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”
- Exodus 3:13 (2×)הָֽאֱלֹהִ֗ים · God; אֱלֹהֵ֥י · The GodThen Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should I tell them?”
- Exodus 3:14אֱלֹהִים֙ · GodGod said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
- Exodus 3:15 (5×)אֱלֹהִ֜ים · God; אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God; אֱלֹהֵ֨י · the God; אֱלֹהֵ֥י · the God; וֵאלֹהֵ֥י · and the GodGod also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
- Exodus 3:16 (2×)אֱלֹהֵ֤י · the God; אֱלֹהֵ֧י · the GodGo, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
- Exodus 3:18 (2×)אֱלֹהֵ֤י · the God; אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ · our GodThe elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
- Exodus 4:5 (2×)אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God; אֱלֹהֵ֧י · the God“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”