Elohim
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #165 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- First attested
- 1200 BCE
- Attested period
- -1200 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Referenced in the Old Testament.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Prince of Greece, El, Adonai, Adam, Michael, prince of Persia, Shaddai, Jehovah
- parent of
- Bene Elohim
- has aspect
- Lord of the Flame, malakhei elohim
- syncretized with
- Dēmiurgos
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Psalm 82 speaks of "elohim" who are "sons of the most High" and are assigned to judge mankind until dying like men or "falling like one of the princes".”
#10534 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The termination ai, typically signifying the first person possessive plural, functions as a pluralis excellentiae like other titles for the Hebrew deity, Elohim ("gods") and Adonai "my lords".”
#25926 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Hebrew elohim with a plural verb, or with implied plural context, was rendered either angeloi ('angels') or to kriterion tou Theou ('the judgement of God')”
#25944 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“led away by pride to equalize himself with Elohim (cp. xxviii. 2, 2 Thess. ii. 4)”
#43684 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free
“...the ineffable name Jehovah, which the Jews were forbidden to utter, and the true pronunciation of which was lost; they were therefore always to pronounce the word Adonai, instead of Jehovah.”
#45018 · extracted by nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free