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:
Nehemiah 1:4: "and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,"
Nehemiah 1:5: "And said, thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God,"
Nehemiah 2:4: "dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven."
Nehemiah 2:8: "granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon"
Nehemiah 2:12: "told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do"
Nehemiah 2:18: "Then I told the hand of my God which was good upon"
Nehemiah 2:20: "Then answered unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we"
Nehemiah 4:4: "Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon"
Nehemiah 4:9: "Nevertheless we made our prayer our God, and set a watch against them day and night,"
Nehemiah 4:15: "heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to naught, that we returned"
Nehemiah 4:20: "resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight"
Nehemiah 5:9: "do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen"
Nehemiah 5:13: "my lap, and said, So God shake out every man"
Nehemiah 5:15: "I, because of the fear of God."
Nehemiah 5:19: "Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this"
Nehemiah 6:10: "Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut"
Nehemiah 6:12: "And, lo, that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy"
Nehemiah 6:14: " My God, thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess"
Nehemiah 6:16: "work was wrought of our God."
Nehemiah 7:2: "man, and feared God above many."
Nehemiah 7:5: " And my God into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers,"
Nehemiah 8:6: "the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen,"
Nehemiah 8:8: "So they read in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand"
Nehemiah 8:9: "day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep."
Nehemiah 8:16: "and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street"
Nehemiah 8:18: "he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days;"
Nehemiah 9:3: "in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed,"
Nehemiah 9:3: "part they confessed, and worshiped the LORD their God."
Nehemiah 9:4: "voice unto the LORD their God."
Nehemiah 9:5: "and bless the LORD your God forever and ever:"
Nehemiah 9:7: "Thou the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur"
Nehemiah 9:18: "calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt,"
Nehemiah 9:32: "Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant"
Nehemiah 10:28: "from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters,"
Nehemiah 10:29: "into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by"
Nehemiah 10:29: "by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all"
Nehemiah 10:32: "of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;"
Nehemiah 10:33: "Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God."
Nehemiah 10:34: "the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times"
Nehemiah 10:34: "to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:"
Nehemiah 10:36: "and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:"
Nehemiah 10:36: "unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:"
Nehemiah 10:37: "to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same"
Nehemiah 10:38: "the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house."
Nehemiah 10:39: "forsake the house of our God."
Nehemiah 11:11: "of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God."
Nehemiah 11:16: "had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God."
Nehemiah 11:22: "the singers were over the business of the house of God."
Nehemiah 12:24: "according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward."
Nehemiah 12:36: "instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before"
