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:
Judges 17:5: "And the man had a house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated"
Judges 18:5: "And they said we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we"
Judges 18:10: "and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where"
Judges 18:24: "And he said, my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away:"
Judges 18:31: "all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh."
Judges 20:2: "presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen"
Judges 20:18: "and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first"
Judges 20:27: "of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,"
Judges 21:2: "till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;"
Judges 21:3: "And said, God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel,"
Ruth 1:15: "unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister-in-law."
Ruth 1:16: "and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:"
Ruth 1:16: "thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:"
Ruth 2:12: "be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose"
1 Samuel 1:17: "and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition"
1 Samuel 2:2: "beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God."
1 Samuel 2:25: "sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin"
1 Samuel 2:27: "And there came of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus"
1 Samuel 2:30: "Wherefore God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house,"
1 Samuel 3:3: "And ere of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where"
1 Samuel 3:3: "of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down"
1 Samuel 3:17: "hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also,"
1 Samuel 4:4: "were there with the ark of the covenant of God."
1 Samuel 4:7: "for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said,"
1 Samuel 4:8: "us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote"
1 Samuel 4:8: "of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians"
1 Samuel 4:11: "And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,"
1 Samuel 4:13: "his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city,"
1 Samuel 4:17: "and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken."
1 Samuel 4:18: "of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat"
1 Samuel 4:19: "the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead,"
1 Samuel 4:21: "from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law"
1 Samuel 4:22: "from Israel: for the ark of God is taken."
1 Samuel 5:1: "the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod."
1 Samuel 5:2: "the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set"
1 Samuel 5:7: "it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with"
1 Samuel 5:7: "upon us, and upon Dagon our god."
1 Samuel 5:8: "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God"
1 Samuel 5:8: "of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried"
1 Samuel 5:8: "And they carried the ark of the God of Israel"
1 Samuel 5:10: "Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God"
1 Samuel 5:10: "to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out,"
1 Samuel 5:10: "They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people."
1 Samuel 5:11: "Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay"
1 Samuel 5:11: "throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there."
1 Samuel 6:3: "ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty;"
1 Samuel 6:5: "the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten"
1 Samuel 6:5: "his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off"
1 Samuel 6:20: "this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from"
1 Samuel 7:3: "then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare"
