See soorce fer Elohim

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[[File:William Blake 008.jpg|200px|thumb|''And Elohim creatit [[Adam]]'' bi [[William Blake]].]]
'''''Elohim''''' ({{Hebrew|אֱלֹהִ֔ים}}) is a [[Grammatical nummer|grammatically singular or plural]] [[noun]] for "god" or "gods" in baih [[Modren Ebreu|modren]] an [[auncient Ebreu leid]].

When uised wi singular [[verbs]] an [[adjectives]] ''elohim'' is uisually singular, "god" or especially, ''the'' [[God in Judaism|God]]. When uised wi plural verbs an adjectives ''elohim'' is uisually plural, "gods" or "pouers".<ref>Glinert ''Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar'' Routledge p14 section 13 "(b) ''[[Agreement (linguistics)|Agreement]] of verbs'' Verbs agree with their subject, and not only in gender and number but also in person. Present tense verbs distinguish masculine from feminine and singular from plural:"</ref><ref>Gesenius ''A Grammar of the Hebrew Language''</ref><!---THE FIRST LINE HAS BEEN CONTINUALLY TOYED WITH BY A SERIES OF ANONYMOUS IP EDITORS WHO APPEAR NOT TO HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE OF SYNTAX AND HAVEN'T READ WHAT THE STANDARD GRAMMARS SAY. PLEASE DO NOT EDIT WITHOUT A REPUTABLE GRAMMAR AS SOURCE.---> It is generally thocht that Elohim is a formation frae ''[[eloah]]'', the latter bein a expandit form o the Northwast Semitic noun ''[[ilah|il]]'' ({{lang|he|אֵל}}, ''[[El (deity)|ʾēl]]''<ref name="DDD">K. van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter Willem van der Horst (eds), ''[[Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible]]'' (revised [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yCkRz5pfxz0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dictionary+of+Deities+and+Demons+in+the+Bible&lpg=PA274&pg=274&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false 2nd edition], Brill, 1999) ISBN 90-04-11119-0, p. 274, 352-3</ref>). It is uisually translatit as "[[God (wird)|God]]" in the [[Ebreu Bible]], referrin wi singular verbs baith tae the ane God o Israel, an in a few examples tae ither singular [[Levantine pantheon|pagan deities]] an aw. Wi plural verbs the wird is uised as a true plural wi the meanin "gods" an aw.<ref name="DDD" /> The relatit nouns ''[[eloah]]'' ({{lang|he|אלוה}}) an ''[[El (deity)|el]]'' ({{lang|he|אֵל}}) are uised as proper names or as generics, in which case they are interchyngeable wi ''elohim''.<ref name="DDD" />

==Notes==
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==Freemit airtins==
* {{Strong Hebrew|430}}
* {{Cite NIE|Elohim|year=1905}}

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