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. Hosea 5:4אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶ֑ם · their God
    Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.
  2. Hosea 6:6אֱלֹהִ֖ים · of God
    For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
  3. Hosea 7:10אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶ֔ם · their God
    Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.
  4. Hosea 8:2אֱלֹהַ֥י · O our God
    Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”
  5. Hosea 8:6אֱלֹהִ֖ים · God
    For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
  6. Hosea 9:1אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ · your God
    Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
  7. Hosea 9:8אֱלֹהָ֑י · my God; אֱלֹהָֽיו׃ · of his God
    The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!
  8. Hosea 9:17אֱלֹהַ֔י · My God
    My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
  9. Hosea 12:3אֱלֹהִֽים׃ · God
    In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
  10. Hosea 12:5אֱלֹהֵ֣י · God
    …the LORD God of Hosts, the LORD is His name of renown.
  11. Hosea 12:6בֵּאלֹהֶ֣יךָ · to your God; אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and always wait on your God.
  12. Hosea 12:9אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    But I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
  13. Hosea 13:4אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God; וֵאלֹהִ֤ים · God
    Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.
  14. Hosea 13:16בֵּֽאלֹהֶ֑יהָ · against her God
    Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
  15. Hosea 14:1אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ · your God
    Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
  16. Hosea 14:3אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ · Our gods
    Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
  17. Joel 1:13אֱלֹהָ֑י · of my God; אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם · of your God
    Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
  18. Joel 1:14אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם · your God
    Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
  19. Joel 1:16אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ · of our God
    Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?
  20. Joel 2:13אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֑ם · your God
    So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
  21. Joel 2:14אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃פ · your God
    Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
  22. Joel 2:17אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃ · is their God
    Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
  23. Joel 2:23אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם · your God
    Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
  24. Joel 2:26אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם · your God
    You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.
  25. Joel 2:27אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם · your God
    Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.
  26. Joel 3:17אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם · your God
    Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.
  27. Amos 2:8אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃ · of their God
    They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
  28. Amos 3:13אֱלֹהֵ֥י · the God
    Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.
  29. Amos 4:11אֱלֹהִים֙
    “Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
  30. Amos 4:12אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ · your God
    “Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
  31. Amos 4:13אֱלֹהֵֽי־ · the God
    For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
  32. Amos 5:14אֱלֹהֵֽי־ · the God
    Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
  33. Amos 5:15אֱלֹהֵֽי־ · the God
    Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
  34. Amos 5:16אֱלֹהֵ֤י · the God
    Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
  35. Amos 5:26אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם · god
    You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
  36. Amos 5:27אֱלֹהֵֽי־ · the God
    Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
  37. Amos 6:8אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
  38. Amos 6:14אֱלֹהֵ֥י · the God
    For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
  39. Amos 8:14אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ · As surely as your god
    Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”
  40. Amos 9:15אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ · your God
    I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.
  41. Jonah 1:5אֱלֹהָיו֒ · his own god
    The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
  42. Jonah 1:6אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ · your God; הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים · this God
    The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
  43. Jonah 1:9אֱלֹהֵ֤י · the God
    “I am a Hebrew,” replied Jonah. “I worship the LORD, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”
  44. Jonah 2:1אֱלֹהָ֑יו · his God
    From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,
  45. Jonah 2:6אֱלֹהָֽי׃ · my God
    To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!