... Elohim," because the words " God " and " Lord God " do not translate the Hebrew correctly, the plural form of Elohim being lost in the English word "God," which is a substitute for and not a translation of the Hebrew term Elohim ...
... gods, the more numerous secondary ghosts, or demi-gods, and so on downward — a pantheon : there being still, however, no essential distinction of kind ; as we see in the calling of ordinary ghosts manes-gods by the Romans and elohim by ...
... god Elohim, invited other cultists to join him in the test of faith at a public plaza in the central Philippines city, photo right. But none of the other cultists took him up on his invitation. "He was a very devout man. He was certain ...
... God, " Elohim," there is a trace of Chaldean polytheism, and, in his discussion on the serpent who tempted Eve, curiously anticipated modern geological and zoological ideas by quietly confessing his inability to see how depriving the ...
... god, ancestor, august person — we are shown it by the Hebrews, who applied the word elohim not only to their supreme supernatural being but also to ghosts : indeed, giving as they did this same name to living persons of power, they sho ...
... God, " Elohim," there is a trace of Chaldean polytheism, and, in his discussion on the serpent who tempted Eve, curiously anticipated modern- geological and zoological ideas by quietly confessing his inability to see how depriving the ...
... Elohim of their national God," and adds : " The fact that the Israelites never forgot that it [Elohim] was a plural term, that up to the last they often employed it in a plural sense, proves that the earliest users of it were wor ...
... GOD Kathleen Raine Thames and Hudson, 320pp., illus. £20.00 Kathleen Raine's Collected Poems have been keenly ... Elohim, and the doctrine of the Gnostics repeated with sufficient consistency to silence one so unlearned as myself ...
... God's Name! Red murder reigns; All Hell is loose; On gold autumnal air Walk grinning devils barbed and hoofed, While ... Elohim ! Death is here! Dead are the living, deep dead the dead. Dying are earth's unborn — The babes' wide ...
... God at a well in a wilderness. Gen. xxi., the flight of Hagar is related a second time. The general scheme of the ... Elohim in the other. Gen. xxxii., Jacob at the fords of Jabbok, after wrestling during the night with a divine ...