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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- 1 Kings 1:17 אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙
“My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ‘Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.’
- 1 Kings 1:30 אֱלֹהֵ֤י
I will carry out this very day exactly what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”
- 1 Kings 1:36 אֱלֹהֵ֖י
“Amen,” replied Benaiah son of Jehoiada. “May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it.
- 1 Kings 1:47 אֱלֹהֶיךָ
The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than your own name, and may He make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king has bowed in worship on his bed,
- 1 Kings 1:48 אֱלֹהֵ֣י
saying, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel! Today He has provided one to sit on my throne, and my eyes have seen it.’”
- 1 Kings 2:3 אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ
And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
- 1 Kings 2:23 אֱלֹהִים֙
Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if Adonijah has not made this request at the expense of his life.
- 1 Kings 3:5 אֱלֹהִ֔ים
One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
- 1 Kings 3:7 אֱלֹהָ֔י
And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in.
- 1 Kings 3:11 אֱלֹהִ֜ים
So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies—but you have asked for discernment to administer justice—
- 1 Kings 3:28 אֱלֹהִ֛ים
When all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
- 1 Kings 4:29 אֱלֹהִ֨ים
And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore.
- 1 Kings 5:3 אֱלֹהָ֔יו
“As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.
- 1 Kings 5:4 אֱלֹהַ֛י
But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or crisis.
- 1 Kings 5:5 אֱלֹהָ֑י
So behold, I plan to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD said to my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My Name.’
- 1 Kings 8:15 אֱלֹהֵ֣י
and said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
- 1 Kings 8:17 אֱלֹהֵ֥י
Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 1 Kings 8:20 אֱלֹהֵ֥י
Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 1 Kings 8:23 אֱלֹהֵ֤יאֱלֹהִ֔ים
and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
- 1 Kings 8:25 אֱלֹהֵ֣י
Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
- 1 Kings 8:26 אֱלֹהֵ֣י
And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.
- 1 Kings 8:27 אֱלֹהִ֖ים
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- 1 Kings 8:28 אֱלֹהָ֑י
Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.
- 1 Kings 8:57 אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙
May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us nor forsake us.
- 1 Kings 8:59 אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ
And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,
- 1 Kings 8:60 הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים
so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no other!
- 1 Kings 8:61 אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ
So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”
- 1 Kings 8:65 אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ
So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
- 1 Kings 9:6 אֱלֹהִ֣ים
But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
- 1 Kings 9:9 אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֗םבֵּאלֹהִ֣ים
And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
- 1 Kings 10:9 אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙
Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
- 1 Kings 10:24 אֱלֹהִ֖ים
The whole world sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
- 1 Kings 11:2 אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם
These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
- 1 Kings 11:4 אֱלֹהִ֣יםאֱלֹהָ֔יו
For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
- 1 Kings 11:5 אֱלֹהֵ֖י
Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
- 1 Kings 11:8 לֵאלֹהֵיהֶֽן׃
He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
- 1 Kings 11:9 אֱלֹהֵ֣י
Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
- 1 Kings 11:10 אֱלֹהִ֣ים
Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.
- 1 Kings 11:23 אֱלֹהִ֥ים
And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,
- 1 Kings 11:31 אֱלֹהֵ֣י
and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.
- 1 Kings 11:33 אֱלֹהֵ֣יאֱלֹהֵ֣יאֱלֹהֵ֣י
For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
- 1 Kings 12:22 הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔יםהָאֱלֹהִ֖ים
But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:
- 1 Kings 12:28 אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙
After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
- 1 Kings 13:1 אֱלֹהִ֗ים
Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 13:4 הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים
Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
- 1 Kings 13:5 הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים
And the altar was split apart, and the ashes poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 13:6 הָאֱלֹהִ֗יםאֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙
Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.
- 1 Kings 13:7 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים
Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”
- 1 Kings 13:8 הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙
But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
- 1 Kings 13:11 הָאֱלֹהִ֨ים׀
Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.