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. Jonah 3:3לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים · an exceedingly
    This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.
  2. Jonah 3:5בֵּֽאלֹהִ֑ים · God
    And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.
  3. Jonah 3:8אֱלֹהִ֖ים · God
    Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.
  4. Jonah 3:9הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים · God
    Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
  5. Jonah 3:10הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ · When God; הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים · [He]
    When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
  6. Jonah 4:6אֱ֠לֹהִים · God
    So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
  7. Jonah 4:7הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ · God
    When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
  8. Jonah 4:8אֱלֹהִ֜ים · God
    As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
  9. Jonah 4:9אֱלֹהִים֙ · Then God
    Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
  10. Micah 3:7אֱלֹהִֽים׃ · from God
    Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”
  11. Micah 4:2אֱלֹהֵ֣י · of the God
    And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  12. Micah 4:5אֱלֹהָ֑יו · of their gods; אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ · our God
    Though all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
  13. Micah 5:4אֱלֹהָ֑יו · His God
    He will stand and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majestic name of the LORD His God. And they will dwell securely, for then His greatness will extend to the ends of the earth.
  14. Micah 6:6לֵאלֹהֵ֣י · before the God
    With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
  15. Micah 6:8אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃פ · your God
    He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  16. Micah 7:7לֵאלֹהֵ֣י · for the God; אֱלֹהָֽי׃ · My God
    But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
  17. Micah 7:10אֱלֹהָ֑יִךְ · your God
    Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
  18. Micah 7:17אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ · our God
    They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
  19. Nahum 1:14אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ · of your gods
    The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
  20. Habakkuk 1:12אֱלֹהַ֛י · my God
    Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
  21. Habakkuk 3:18בֵּאלֹהֵ֥י · in the God
    …yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
  22. Zephaniah 2:7אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֖ם · their God
    The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will attend to them and restore their captives.
  23. Zephaniah 2:9אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
  24. Zephaniah 2:11אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the gods
    The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.
  25. Zephaniah 3:2אֱלֹהֶ֖יהָ · her God
    She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.
  26. Zephaniah 3:17אֱלֹהַ֛יִךְ · your God
    The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
  27. Haggai 1:12אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶ֔ם · their God; אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם · their God
    Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD.
  28. Haggai 1:14אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃פ · their God
    So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,
  29. Zechariah 6:15אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ס · your God
    Even those far away will come and build the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”
  30. Zechariah 8:8לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים · God
    I will bring them back to dwell in Jerusalem, where they will be My people, and I will be their faithful and righteous God.”
  31. Zechariah 8:23אֱלֹהִ֥ים · that God
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
  32. Zechariah 9:7לֵֽאלֹהֵ֑ינוּ · for our God
    I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abominations from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.
  33. Zechariah 9:16אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֛ם · their God
    On that day the LORD their God will save them as the flock of His people; for like jewels in a crown they will sparkle over His land.
  34. Zechariah 10:6אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֖ם · their God
    I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.
  35. Zechariah 11:4אֱלֹהָ֑י · my God
    This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter,
  36. Zechariah 12:5אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃ · [is] their God
    Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts: ‘The people of Jerusalem are my strength, for the LORD of Hosts is their God.’
  37. Zechariah 12:8כֵּֽאלֹהִ֔ים · will be like God
    On that day the LORD will defend the people of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.
  38. Zechariah 13:9אֱלֹהָֽי׃ס · our God
    This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
  39. Zechariah 14:5אֱלֹהַ֔י · my God
    You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.
  40. Malachi 2:15אֱלֹהִ֑ים · godly
    Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
  41. Malachi 2:16אֱלֹהֵ֣י · the God
    “For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith.
  42. Malachi 2:17אֱלֹהֵ֥י · is the God
    You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
  43. Malachi 3:8אֱלֹהִ֗ים · God
    Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
  44. Malachi 3:14אֱלֹהִ֑ים · God
    You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
  45. Malachi 3:15אֱלֹהִ֖ים · God
    So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
  46. Malachi 3:18אֱלֹהִ֔ים · God
    So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”