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‖ Elohim|ɛˈləʊhɪm, -hiːm|
Also 7 elohym.
[Heb. ĕlōhīm, pl. of ĕlôah god, but often construed as sing. with sense ‘God’ or ‘a god’.]
a. One of the Hebrew names of God, or of the gods.
1605Timme Quersit. i. ii. 7 That Elohym..Who moved upon the waters. 1715Kersey, Elohim, one of the names of God in the bible. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. i. 19 Abraham saw that all the Elohim were meant for God.
†b. transf. in allusion to the supposed use of the word in certain passages of the Bible to denote earthly potentates. (This interpretation is now abandoned, exc. in the ironical passage Ps. lxxxii. 6.)
1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. 19 He who..sways the scepter of himself, not envying the glory of..elohims of the earth.
c. attrib. = Elohimic a.
1875Encycl. Brit. III. 637/1 It is still possible to reconstruct at least the Elohim document. 1886Ibid. XX. 30/1 The Elohim psalms..have undergone a common editorial treatment distinguishing them from the rest of the Psalter. 1936J. E. Carpenter in A. S. Peake Commentary on Bible 122/1 He [sc. Jean Astruc] noticed that in different narratives the Deity was designated by different names... On this basis he distributed the contents of Genesis into two main documents, an Elohim narrative A and a Yahweh story B. 1963S. Sandmel Hebrew Scriptures xxvi. 330 There was a source additional to the Yahve and Elohim source, which could be called the Deuteronomic code. |