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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:

Ezra 1:5: "with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build"
Ezra 1:7: "out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;"
Ezra 2:68: "which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:"
Ezra 3:2: "and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon,"
Ezra 3:2: "in the law of Moses the man of God."
Ezra 3:8: "of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began"
Ezra 3:9: "forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons"
Ezra 4:1: "built the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;"
Ezra 4:2: "with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days"
Ezra 4:3: "unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build"
Ezra 4:3: "together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus"
Ezra 6:21: "them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,"
Ezra 6:22: "their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel."
Ezra 6:22: "in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel."
Ezra 7:6: "in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king"
Ezra 7:6: "him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon"
Ezra 7:9: "he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon"
Ezra 7:27: "Blessed God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's"
Ezra 7:28: "was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel"
Ezra 8:17: "at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God."
Ezra 8:18: "And by the good of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons"
Ezra 8:21: "of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way"
Ezra 8:22: "we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good"
Ezra 8:23: "So we fasted our God our God for this: and he was entreated"
Ezra 8:25: "and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his lords, and all"
Ezra 8:28: "and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers."
Ezra 8:30: "to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God."
Ezra 8:31: "day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon"
Ezra 8:33: "and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son"
Ezra 8:35: "out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve"
Ezra 8:36: "the people, and the house of God."
Ezra 9:4: "me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away;"
Ezra 9:5: "and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,"
Ezra 9:6: "And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God:"
Ezra 9:6: "to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over"
Ezra 9:8: "hath been showed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give"
Ezra 9:8: "and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give"
Ezra 9:9: "For were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended"
Ezra 9:9: "to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give"
Ezra 9:10: "And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken"
Ezra 9:13: "trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities"
Ezra 9:15: "O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped,"
Ezra 10:1: "and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel"
Ezra 10:2: "and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives"
Ezra 10:3: "Now a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born"
Ezra 10:3: "of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law."
Ezra 10:6: "from before the house of God, and went into the chamber"
Ezra 10:9: "sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain."
Ezra 10:11: "confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves"
Ezra 10:14: "and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter"









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