אֱלֹהִים

e.lo.him · God

Hebrew · Strong's H430 · Noun · Sounds like: el-o-heem' · 2,603 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • God H0430G · a Name of 2,385
  • (LORD)-Elohe H0430H · a Part of 1
  • (Gibeath)-elohim H0430I · a Part of 1

Strong's dictionary

plural of אֱלוֹהַּ; 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; angels, [idiom] exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), [idiom] (very) great, judges, [idiom] mighty.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
אֱלֹהִים 2570 n.m.pl.
1. pl. in number.
a. rulers, judges, either as divine representatives at sacred places or as reflecting divine majesty and power
b. divine ones, superhuman beings including God and angels
c. angels
d. gods
2. pl. intensive
a. god or goddess
b. godlike one
c. works of God, or things belongng to him
d. God
3. הָאֱלֹהִים the (true) God
4. אֱלֹהִים = God

Every occurrence

  1. Jonah 1:5 אֱלֹהָיו֒ 'e.lo.Hav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

  2. Jonah 1:6 אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ 'e.lo.Hei.kha · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

  3. Jonah 1:6 הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים ha.'E.lo.Him · A person, place or thing

    So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

  4. Jonah 1:9 אֱלֹהֵ֤י 'e.lo.Hei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.

  5. Jonah 2:1 אֱלֹהָ֑יו 'e.lo.Hav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly.

  6. Jonah 2:6 אֱלֹהָֽי׃ 'e.lo.Hai · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.

  7. Jonah 3:3 לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים le.lo.Him · A person, place or thing

    So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey.

  8. Jonah 3:5 בֵּֽאלֹהִ֑ים be.lo.Him · A person, place or thing

    And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

  9. Jonah 3:8 אֱלֹהִ֖ים 'E.lo.Him · A person, place or thing

    but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

  10. Jonah 3:9 הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים ha.'E.lo.Him · A person, place or thing

    Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

  11. Jonah 3:10 הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ ha.'E.lo.Him · A person, place or thing

    And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.

  12. Jonah 3:10 הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים ha.'E.lo.Him · A person, place or thing

    And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.

  13. Jonah 4:6 אֱ֠לֹהִים 'E.lo.Him · A person, place or thing

    And Jehovah God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.

  14. Jonah 4:7 הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ ha.'E.lo.Him · A person, place or thing

    But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.

  15. Jonah 4:8 אֱלֹהִ֜ים 'E.lo.Him · A person, place or thing

    And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

  16. Jonah 4:9 אֱלֹהִים֙ 'E.lo.Him · A person, place or thing

    And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

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