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ˌɛl oʊˈhim, -ˈhɪmelo·him

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Wiktionary

  1. Elohimnoun

    Name used for God in Hebrew scriptures.

  2. Etymology: From אלהים or אלוהים plural of "god"

Webster Dictionary

  1. Elohimnoun

    one of the principal names by which God is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures

  2. Etymology: [Heb.]

Wikidata

  1. Elohim

    Elohim is a grammatically singular or plural noun for "god" or "gods" in both modern and ancient Hebrew language. When used with singular verbs and adjectives elohim is usually singular, "god" or especially, the God. When used with plural verbs and adjectives elohim is usually plural, "gods" or "powers". It is generally thought that Elohim is a formation from eloah, the latter being an expanded form of the Northwest Semitic noun il. It is usually translated as "God" in the Hebrew Bible, referring with singular verbs both to the one God of Israel, and also in a few examples to other singular pagan deities. With plural verbs the word is also used as a true plural with the meaning "gods". The related nouns eloah and el are used as proper names or as generics, in which case they are interchangeable with elohim. Mark S. Smith said that the notion of divinity underwent radical changes throughout the period of early Israelite identity. Smith said that the ambiguity of the term Elohim is the result of such changes, cast in terms of "vertical translatability" by Smith; i.e. the re-interpretation of the gods of the earliest recalled period as the national god of the monolatrism as it emerged in the 7th to 6th century BCE in the Kingdom of Judah and during the Babylonian captivity, and further in terms of monotheism by the emergence of Rabbinical Judaism in the 2nd century CE. A different version was produced by Morton Smith. Despite the -im ending common to many plural masculine nouns in Hebrew, the word when referring to the Name of God is grammatically singular, and takes a singular verb in the Hebrew Bible.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Elohim

    e-lō′him, n. the Hebrew name for God.—n. Elō′hist, the writer or writers of the Elohistic passages of the Old Testament.—adj. Elohist′ic, relating to Elohim—said of those passages in the Old Testament in which Elohim is used as the name for the Supreme Being instead of Jehovah. [Heb., pl. of Eloah—explained by Delitzsch as a plural of intensity.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Elohim

    a Hebrew word in the plural number, signifying God or one as God, but with a verb in the singular, signifying generally the one true God; according to the Talmud it denotes God as just in judgment to all in contradistinction to Jehovah, which denotes God as merciful to His people.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Elohim in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Elohim in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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