Unfortunately 99.99& of religionists have never received a real biblical
education. they just believe what their preacher tells them.

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god ?????

1. The usual word for god in the Hebrew Bible is eloh�m, a plural
formation of eloah, the latter being an expanded form of the Common
Semitic
noun il (Eloah),

Notice, there is no doubt about the word being a plural.

The term eloh�m occurs some 2570 times in the Hebrew Bible, with
multiple
meanings, In such expressions as "all the gods of Egypt" (Exod l2:l2) it
refers to a plurality of deities without any direct association with
their
images.


More frequently, the word he used in a singular situation. As in
Chemosh
is the eloh�m of Moab (l Kgs ll:33); the plural here is a plural of
excellence or of majesty (Jo�on/Muraoka � l36d),

In reality, there's no reason to make such an assumption. We do not
find
the royal we in common usage until after the Roman Empire. There is
some
speculation that the royal we may have been used during the decline of
the
Roman empire, does anyone have any information on this?

The word is generic, it can be used as an absolute when used as a proper
name(the god Gen 5:22)

Since the Israelite concept of divinity included all preternatural
beings, also lower deities (in modern usage referred to as spirits,
angels,
demons, semi-gods, and the like) may be called eloh�m, Thus the teraphim
(Gen 3l: 30.32), anonymous heavenly beings (Ps 8:6; LXX oi), and the
spirits of the dead (l Sam 28:l3) are referred to as gods, Other Hebrew
words for god are el (El) and eloah. Though both are used as proper
names
("El your father", Gen 49:25; "Can mortal man be righteous before
Eloah",
Job 4:l7), they can also have generic meaning; in the latter case they
are
more or less interchangeable with eloh�m. Gods can also be collectively
referrd to with the constructions ben� eloh�m (Ps 29:l; 89:7), ben�
Ely�n
(Gen 6:2; Job l:6; 2:l; 38:7; cf, Deut 32:8 4QDeut,), or ben� Ely�n (Ps
82:6). The latter expression (the sons of Elyon) suggests the
possibility
that the second element of the construction be understood as a proper
name
of a single deity, so that the expressions compare with Ug. and Phoen.
bn
il(m( the sons of El (Mullen l980:ll7-ll9; KAI 0. 26A iii l9, and
commentary in KAI II, p, 43), In view of the Ugaritic formula, the
plural
eloh�m Pss 29:l and 89:7 may have to be interpreted as the proper name
El
followed by enclitic mem. The expression adat el (the council of El, Ps
82:1) might be taken in corroboration of that possibility (Council).


This series will continue, hopefully uninterrupted at the rate of one a
day. It gets rather interesting one to get into the various gods that
are
known as god, and will include the entire Middle Eastern region, which
of
course influenced the Hebrew mythology.


walksalone who has had fun, & is having fun, exposing the shallow
foundations of the xian myth, as well as the other revealed gods of the
desert.

Terrific bit of informative, scholarly posting. You go get em', tiger!!

Greywolf