That is what Jews presently believe.The plural is Elohim. Which, if taken as a plural, means "gods." But is used of God, I believe, to denote a plural of majesty.
Hebrew grammar allows for this nominally-plural form to mean "He is the Power (singular) over powers (plural)", or roughly, "God of gods". Rabbinic scholar Maimonides wrote that the various other usages are commonly understood to be homonyms.[5] The plural form ending in -im can also be understood as denoting abstraction, as in the Hebrew words chayyim ("life") or betulim ("virginity"). If understood this way, Elohim means "divinity" or "deity"
It is also used of pagan gods in the OT, even when a singular entity was the referrent (Judges 11:24, 1Kings 11:5).
Some have argued that the plural form denotes a Trinity, but the plural literally means "gods" not "persons."
Honestly, I am not very familiar with Hebrew. But believe it to refer to God in the plural of majesty.
If Elohim is the plural form of Eloah, what is the plural of El? What is the difference?
If you don't have a transliterated Bible may I suggest getting a Restored Name KJV? One can be had at TheWord.net along with some very good Bible software. Search for the usage of Eloah.
Now let us assume God knows how to speak Hebrew. Why does He occasionally use Eloah, and constantly use Elohim starting with Genesis 1 where Elohim makes the world and man?
Our word God comes from a Greek/Roman background - not Hebrew.
Do you believe Jesus is JHWH?
Do you believe Heavenly Father is JHWH? See Deut 18:17-19.
Do you believe the Father created the world through the Son?
So Elohim(pl) literally created the world as Genesis says.
All throughout the KJV we find LORD God, which the RNKJV shows is YHWH Elohim in the Hebrew, a plural form - not YHWH Eloah, and not YHWH El. Why? Jesus said the Jews He spoke with were Elohim quoting Ps 82, and emphasized the law cannot be broken.
Now you pointed out that elohim is sometimes used in reference to idolic gods. Idols were made of stone or perhaps molded stone called metal which God would refer to as your elohim/gods to the Hebrews. Instead of revering the Rock of their salvation, Eloah, they being elohim, worshipped elohim, rock statues that neither see, nor hear, nor walk. Now I ask, were they YHWH? The Jews do not know what JHWH means. They have confounded the name of God. Letter by letter JHWH means Behold the nail, behold the hand. They were not the Word, nor the law - they were not YHWH. Note how He speaks to them: I am the Lord your God - I am the Word of your family of Stone, as best I can translate it - it truly essentially means this - but His name YHWH, got lost as a title in the KJV, and confounded with adonai, so that where JHWH would be, LORD appears in the KJV rather than Lord or adonai. Where He repeatedly says I am the LORD, it could read I am the WORD/Law/Way/Life - that is the meaning of His name, which name they share as one. I totally did not get that from the English KJV because all the names and titles are consolidated into Lord and God/s. Further, El Shaddai becomes God Almighty in the Septuagint, the Father, in the creeds, when this is confounded as well. El Shaddai means more like God who weans you from the breast(shad), and is a reference to Christ, See Gen 49:25 and John 8, rather than the Father, El Elyon or Most High God. El Gibbor means Mighty/Almighty God. Thus, basically all the creeds are upside down or backwards from the very start if they were to get translated back into Hebrew as the Father Almighty being El Shaddai.
Ezek 36:21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
Ezek 36:22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
Ezek 36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
Ezek 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
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