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- Hebrew · borrowed fromאֱלֹהִים
- English todayElohim
From Hebrew אֱלֹהִים/אֱלוֹהִים (ʾélôhím, “god(s), heavenly power”), plural of אֱלוֹהַּ (ʾélôah, “god”), often taken to be an expanded form of אֵל (ʾēl, “god”) (whence El).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.