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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:

Hosea 4:12: "hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God."
Hosea 5:4: "their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst"
Hosea 6:6: "and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."
Hosea 7:10: "return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this."
Hosea 8:2: "Israel unto me, My God, we know"
Hosea 8:6: "also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria"
Hosea 9:1: "for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon"
Hosea 9:8: "The watchman was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in"
Hosea 9:8: "his ways, and hatred in the house of his God."
Hosea 9:17: " My God because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations."
Hosea 12:3: "He took his brother by the heel and by his strength he had power with God:"
Hosea 12:5: "Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial."
Hosea 12:6: "Therefore turn to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on"
Hosea 12:6: "and judgment, and wait on thy God continually."
Hosea 12:9: "And I thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell"
Hosea 13:4: "Yet I thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no"
Hosea 13:4: "from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no savior"
Hosea 13:16: "for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces,"
Hosea 14:1: "unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity."
Hosea 14:3: "any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy."
Joel 1:13: "lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withheld"
Joel 1:13: "and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God."
Joel 1:14: "of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,"
Joel 1:16: "yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?"
Joel 2:13: "and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful,"
Joel 2:14: "him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?"
Joel 2:17: "over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?"
Joel 2:23: "of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain"
Joel 2:26: "and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously"
Joel 2:27: "of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never"
Joel 3:17: "I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain:"
Amos 2:8: "the wine of the condemned in the house of their god."
Amos 3:13: "saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,"
Amos 4:11: "I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand"
Amos 4:12: "I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel."
Amos 4:13: "the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name."
Amos 5:14: "ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as"
Amos 5:15: "in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph."
Amos 5:16: "Therefore the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing"
Amos 5:26: "and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made"
Amos 5:27: "Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts."
Amos 6:8: "by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor"
Amos 6:14: "of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in"
Amos 8:14: "of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba"
Amos 9:15: "which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God."
Jonah 1:5: "and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that"
Jonah 1:6: "meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think"
Jonah 1:6: "call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not."
Jonah 1:9: "and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made"
Jonah 2:1: "unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,"









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