Elah אֱלָהּ

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Elah
אֱלָהּ
Transliterationelah
Strong's numberH426
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossgod
Occurrences95 in 78 verses
Most frequent inDaniel (41)

Elah (Hebrew אֱלָהּ, Strong's H426) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “god”. It occurs 95 times in 78 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) god, God
1a) god, heathen deity
1b) God (of Israel)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVgod (81), gods (14)
BSBgod (54), gods (12), your god (9), his god (4), their god (2), your gods (2), my god (2), may god (1), o god (1), my gods (1), be the god (1), their own god (1), and 3 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Elah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Ezra

Jeremiah

Daniel

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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