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Strong's #430: 'elohiym (pronounced el-o-heem')

plural of 433; 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, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ĕlôhı̂ym

1) (plural)

1a) rulers, judges

1b) divine ones

1c) angels

1d) gods

2) (plural intensive - singular meaning)

2a) god, goddess

2b) godlike one

2c) works or special possessions of God

2d) the (true) God

2e) God

Part of Speech: noun masculine plural

Relation: plural of H433



Usage:

This word is used 2601 times:

Joshua 22:22: "The LORD of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth,"
Joshua 22:22: "of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he"
Joshua 22:24: "might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?"
Joshua 22:29: "or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before"
Joshua 22:33: "of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up"
Joshua 22:34: "between us that the LORD is God."
Joshua 23:3: "all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations"
Joshua 23:3: "because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought"
Joshua 23:5: "And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight;"
Joshua 23:5: "and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised"
Joshua 23:7: "among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve"
Joshua 23:8: "But unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto"
Joshua 23:10: "a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised"
Joshua 23:11: "that ye love the LORD your God."
Joshua 23:13: "Know for a certainty the LORD your God will no more drive out"
Joshua 23:13: "from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given"
Joshua 23:14: "the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you; all"
Joshua 23:15: "upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD"
Joshua 23:15: "this good land which the LORD your God hath given"
Joshua 23:16: "the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served"
Joshua 23:16: "you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled"
Joshua 24:1: "and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God."
Joshua 24:2: "Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side"
Joshua 24:2: "and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods."
Joshua 24:14: "and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side"
Joshua 24:15: "ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that"
Joshua 24:15: "of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell:"
Joshua 24:16: "the LORD, to serve other gods;"
Joshua 24:17: "For our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land"
Joshua 24:18: "the LORD; for he is our God."
Joshua 24:19: "the LORD: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God;"
Joshua 24:20: "the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after"
Joshua 24:23: "said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline"
Joshua 24:23: "your heart unto the LORD God of Israel."
Joshua 24:24: "Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey."
Joshua 24:26: "words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up"
Joshua 24:27: "therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God."
Judges 1:7: "my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem,"
Judges 2:3: "drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare"
Judges 2:12: "And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land"
Judges 2:12: "of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods"
Judges 2:12: "of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the gods"
Judges 2:17: "they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of"
Judges 2:19: "themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down"
Judges 3:6: "to their sons, and served their gods."
Judges 3:7: "and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves."
Judges 3:20: "And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of"
Judges 4:6: "out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded,"
Judges 4:23: " So God on that day Jabin the king of Canaan"
Judges 5:3: "unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel."









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