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 12:40: "companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with"
Nehemiah 12:43: "sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives"
Nehemiah 12:45: "kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David,"
Nehemiah 12:46: "of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God."
Nehemiah 13:1: "should not come into the congregation of God forever;"
Nehemiah 13:2: "Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing."
Nehemiah 13:4: "the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:"
Nehemiah 13:7: "him a chamber in the courts of the house of God."
Nehemiah 13:9: "brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense."
Nehemiah 13:11: "and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in"
Nehemiah 13:14: "Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that"
Nehemiah 13:14: "my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices"
Nehemiah 13:18: "your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this"
Nehemiah 13:22: "the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare"
Nehemiah 13:25: "of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons,"
Nehemiah 13:26: "like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over"
Nehemiah 13:26: "who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all"
Nehemiah 13:27: "great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?"
Nehemiah 13:29: "Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites."
Nehemiah 13:31: "appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good."
Job 1:1: "perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil."
Job 1:5: "that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job"
Job 1:6: "Now there was when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD,"
Job 1:8: "in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?"
Job 1:9: "and said, Doth Job fear God for naught?"
Job 1:16: "also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up"
Job 1:22: "not, nor charged God foolishly."
Job 2:1: "Again there was when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD,"
Job 2:3: "in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?"
Job 2:9: "retain thine integrity? curse God, and die."
Job 2:10: "good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?"
Job 5:8: "unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:"
Job 20:29: "of a wicked man from God, from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God."
Job 28:23: " God the way thereof, and he knoweth the place"
Job 32:2: "kindled, because he justified himself rather than God. rather than God."
Job 34:9: "nothing that he should delight himself with God."
Job 38:7: "together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
Psalms 3:2: "of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah."
Psalms 3:7: "Arise, save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all"
Psalms 4:1: "of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy"
Psalms 5:2: "of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray."
Psalms 5:10: "Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions;"
Psalms 7:1: "of Cush the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all"
Psalms 7:3: "O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity"
Psalms 7:9: "but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins."
Psalms 7:10: "My defense God, which saveth the upright in heart."
Psalms 7:11: " God the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day."
Psalms 8:5: "For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor."
Psalms 9:17: "and all the nations that forget God."
Psalms 10:4: "of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts."
