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# אֱלֹוהַּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H433

**god** — used 57 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

god [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/433/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱלֹהַּ: n.m. god, God God [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/433/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** so Dt 32:17; לֶאֱלֹהַּ Dn 11:38 (vid. BD) sf. לֵאלֹהוֹ Hb 1:11; elsewhere אֱלוֹהַּ n.m. god, God. (Sam. id., Aramaic אֱלָהּ, ܐܰܠܳܗܳܐ,, Arabic إِلٰهٌ, Sab. אלה DHMl.c.;—אֱלֹהַּ as found in Heb. prob. a sg. formed by inference from pl. אֱלֹהִים: cf. Nesl.c.)— a heathen god, late usage; כָּל־אֱלוֹהַּ 2 Ch. 32:15 Dn 11:37; זוּ כחו לאלהו whose power is his god Hb 1:11 2 K 17:31 (but Qr אֱלֹהֵי), אשר הביא אֱלוֹהַּ בְּיָדוֹ who doth bring God in his hand Jb 12:6 (Ew Di RVm, etc.) God, used in ancient poems Dt 32:15, 17 ψ 18:32, and on their basis an archaism in later poetry Jb 3:4 + (41 times Jb), ψ 50:22; 114:7; 139:19 Pr 30:5 Is 44:8 Hb 3:3 Ne 9:17 (citing Ex 34:6 where אֵל is used).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: God (31); of God (10); god (5).

## In the verses

[Job 37:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.22/#tree)

מִ֭צָּפוֹן זָהָ֣ב יֶֽאֱתֶ֑ה עַל־אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַּ נ֣וֹרָא הֽוֹד׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] north gold it.comes \[is\].on God awesome majesty

*JPS 1917:* Out of the north cometh golden splendour, about God is terrible majesty.

[Job 11:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.7/#tree)

הַחֵ֣קֶר אֱל֣וֹהַ תִּמְצָ֑א אִ֤ם עַד־תַּכְלִ֖ית שַׁדַּ֣י תִּמְצָֽא׃

*Word for word:* the searching? of.God will.you.find or? to the.end of.\[the\].Almighty will.you.find

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou find out the deep things of God? Canst thou attain unto the purpose of the Almighty?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/433.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/433/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).