אֱלֹהִים

e.lo.him

Hebrew H0430 Noun, masculine 2,600 occurrences in 2,247 verses

אֱלֹהִים God

This name means "gods" (plural intensive-singular meaning), "God"

Another name of ye.ho.vah (יהוה "LORD" H3068G)

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Concordance 2,247 verses

2 Chronicles 31:21 הָאֱלֹהִ֗יםלֵֽאלֹהָ֑יו

He was diligent in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.
2 Chronicles 32:8 אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙

With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 32:11 אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ

Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’
2 Chronicles 32:13 אֱלֹהֵי֙

Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have the gods of these nations ever been able to deliver their land from my hand?
2 Chronicles 32:14 אֱלֹהֵ֞יאֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם

Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers devoted to destruction has been able to deliver his people from my hand? How then can your God deliver you from my hand?
2 Chronicles 32:15 אֱ‍ֽלֹהֵיכֶ֔ם

So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”
2 Chronicles 32:16 הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים

And the servants of Sennacherib spoke further against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 32:17 אֱלֹהֵ֣יכֵּֽאלֹהֵ֞יאֱלֹהֵ֧י

He also wrote letters mocking the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying against Him: “Just as the gods of the nations did not deliver their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.”
2 Chronicles 32:19 אֱלֹהֵ֖יאֱלֹהֵי֙

They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.
2 Chronicles 32:21 אֱלֹהָ֔יו

and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
2 Chronicles 32:29 אֱלֹהִ֔ים

He made cities for himself, and he acquired herds of sheep and cattle in abundance, for God gave him very great wealth.
2 Chronicles 32:31 הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים

And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.
2 Chronicles 33:7 הָאֱלֹהִ֗יםאֱלֹהִים֙

Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
2 Chronicles 33:12 אֱלֹהָ֑יואֱלֹהֵ֥י

And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 33:13 הָֽאֱלֹהִֽים׃

And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
2 Chronicles 33:15 אֱלֹהֵ֨י

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
2 Chronicles 33:16 אֱלֹהֵ֥י

Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and he told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:17 אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃

Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
2 Chronicles 33:18 אֱלֹהָיו֒אֱלֹהֵ֣י

As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, they are indeed written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 34:3 לֵאלֹהֵ֖י

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
2 Chronicles 34:8 אֱלֹהָֽיו׃

Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to cleanse the land and the temple, Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles 34:9 אֱלֹהִים֒

So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites at the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, Judah, and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:23 אֱלֹהֵ֣י

And Huldah said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Tell the man who sent you
2 Chronicles 34:25 לֵֽאלֹהִ֣ים

because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out upon this place and will not be quenched.’
2 Chronicles 34:26 אֱלֹהֵ֣י

But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for the words that you heard,
2 Chronicles 34:27 אֱלֹהִ֗ים

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
2 Chronicles 34:32 אֱלֹהִ֖יםאֱלֹהֵ֥י

Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand in agreement to it. So all the people of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 34:33 אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑םאֱלֹהֵ֥י

And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 35:3 אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם

To the Levites who taught all Israel and were holy to the LORD, Josiah said: “Put the holy ark in the temple built by Solomon son of David king of Israel. It is not to be carried around on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and His people Israel.
2 Chronicles 35:8 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים

His officials also contributed willingly to the people and priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the administrators of the house of God, gave the priests 2,600 Passover offerings and 300 bulls.
2 Chronicles 35:21 וֵאלֹהִ֖יםמֵאֱלֹהִ֥ים

But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, O king of Judah? I have not come against you today, but I am fighting another dynasty. God told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or He will destroy you!”
2 Chronicles 35:22 אֱלֹהִ֑ים

Josiah, however, did not turn away from him; instead, in order to engage him in battle, he disguised himself. He did not listen to Neco’s words from the mouth of God, but went to fight him on the Plain of Megiddo.
2 Chronicles 36:5 אֱלֹהָֽיו׃

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles 36:12 אֱלֹהָ֑יו

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke for the LORD.
2 Chronicles 36:13 בֵּֽאלֹהִ֑יםאֱלֹהֵ֥י

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 36:15 אֱלֹהֵ֨י

Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
2 Chronicles 36:16 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים

But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
2 Chronicles 36:18 הָאֱלֹהִים֙

who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.
2 Chronicles 36:19 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים

Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.
2 Chronicles 36:23 אֱלֹהֵ֣יאֱלֹהָ֛יו

“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’”
Ezra 1:2 אֱלֹהֵ֣י

“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.
Ezra 1:3 אֱלֹהָיו֙אֱלֹהֵ֣יהָאֱלֹהִ֖ים

Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 1:4 הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים

And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”
Ezra 1:5 הָאֱלֹהִים֙

So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
Ezra 1:7 אֱלֹהָֽיו׃

King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.
Ezra 2:68 הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים

When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.
Ezra 3:2 אֱלֹהֵ֣יהָאֱלֹהִֽים׃

Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.
Ezra 3:8 הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙

In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.
Ezra 3:9 הָאֱלֹהִ֑יםס

So Jeshua and his sons and brothers, Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Yehudah), and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together to supervise those working on the house of God.
Ezra 4:1 אֱלֹהֵ֥י

When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,