אֱלֹהִים
e.lo.him
This name means "gods" (plural intensive-singular meaning), "God"
Another name of ye.ho.vah (יהוה "LORD" H3068G)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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- Judges 18:5 בֵאלֹהִ֑ים
Then they said to him, “Please inquire of God to determine whether we will have a successful journey.”
- Judges 18:10 אֱלֹהִ֖ים
When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
- Judges 18:24 אֱלֹהַי֩
He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”
- Judges 18:31 הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים
So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
- Judges 20:2 הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים
The leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: 400,000 men on foot, armed with swords.
- Judges 20:18 בֵאלֹהִים֒
The Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied.
- Judges 20:27 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים
And the Israelites inquired of the LORD. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,
- Judges 21:2 הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים
So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
- Judges 21:3 אֱלֹהֵ֣י
“Why, O LORD God of Israel,” they cried out, “has this happened in Israel? Today in Israel one tribe is missing!”
- Ruth 1:15 אֱלֹהֶ֑יהָ
“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
- Ruth 1:16 וֵאלֹהַ֖יִךְאֱלֹהָֽי׃
But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
- Ruth 2:12 אֱלֹהֵ֣י
May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”
- 1 Samuel 1:17 וֵאלֹהֵ֣י
“Go in peace,” Eli replied, “and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him.”
- 1 Samuel 2:2 כֵּאלֹהֵֽינוּ׃
There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.
- 1 Samuel 2:25 אֱלֹהִ֔ים
If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.
- 1 Samuel 2:27 אֱלֹהִ֖ים
Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house?
- 1 Samuel 2:30 אֱלֹהֵ֣י
Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
- 1 Samuel 3:3 אֱלֹהִים֙אֱלֹהִֽים׃פ
Before the lamp of God had gone out, Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was located.
- 1 Samuel 3:17 אֱלֹהִים֙
“What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”
- 1 Samuel 4:4 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים
So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
- 1 Samuel 4:7 אֱלֹהִ֖ים
the Philistines were afraid. “The gods have entered their camp!” they said. “Woe to us, for nothing like this has happened before.
- 1 Samuel 4:8 הָאֱלֹהִ֥יםהָאֱלֹהִ֗ים
Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
- 1 Samuel 4:11 אֱלֹהִ֖ים
The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
- 1 Samuel 4:13 הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים
When he arrived, there was Eli, sitting on his chair beside the road and watching, because his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the whole city cried out.
- 1 Samuel 4:17 הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים
The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
- 1 Samuel 4:18 הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים
As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
- 1 Samuel 4:19 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים
Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
- 1 Samuel 4:21 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים
And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.
- 1 Samuel 4:22 הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃פ
“The glory has departed from Israel,” she said, “for the ark of God has been captured.”
- 1 Samuel 5:1 הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים
After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,
- 1 Samuel 5:2 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים
carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.
- 1 Samuel 5:7 אֱלֹהֵ֤יאֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃
And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”
- 1 Samuel 5:8 אֱלֹהֵ֣יאֱלֹהֵ֣יאֱלֹהֵ֥י
So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” “It must be moved to Gath,” they replied. So they carried away the ark of the God of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 5:10 הָאֱלֹהִ֖יםהָאֱלֹהִים֙אֱלֹהֵ֣י
So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”
- 1 Samuel 5:11 אֱלֹהֵ֤יהָאֱלֹהִ֖ים
Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.
- 1 Samuel 6:3 אֱלֹהֵ֤י
They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”
- 1 Samuel 6:5 לֵאלֹהֵ֥יאֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם
Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.
- 1 Samuel 6:20 הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים
The men of Beth-shemesh asked, “Who can stand in the presence of the LORD, this holy God? To whom should the ark go up from here?”
- 1 Samuel 7:3 אֱלֹהֵ֧י
Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
- 1 Samuel 7:8 אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ
and said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying out to the LORD our God for us, that He may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”
- 1 Samuel 8:8 אֱלֹהִ֣ים
Just as they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking Me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you.
- 1 Samuel 9:6 אֱלֹהִים֙
“Look,” said the servant, “in this city there is a man of God who is highly respected; everything he says surely comes to pass. Let us go there now. Perhaps he will tell us which way to go.”
- 1 Samuel 9:7 הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים
“If we do go,” Saul replied, “what can we give the man? For the bread in our packs is gone, and there is no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
- 1 Samuel 9:8 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים
The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have here in my hand a quarter shekel of silver. I will give it to the man of God, and he will tell us our way.”
- 1 Samuel 9:9 אֱלֹהִ֔ים
(Formerly in Israel, a man on his way to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer.” For the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.)
- 1 Samuel 9:10 הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃
“Good,” said Saul to his servant. “Come, let us go.” So they set out for the city where the man of God was.
- 1 Samuel 9:27 אֱלֹהִֽים׃פ
As they were going down to the edge of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us, but you stay for a while, and I will reveal to you the word of God.” So the servant went on.
- 1 Samuel 10:3 הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים
Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
- 1 Samuel 10:5 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים
After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
- 1 Samuel 10:7 הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים
When these signs have come, do as the occasion demands, for God is with you.