From: andronicus451@gmail.com   
      
   P.S.   
      
   Biblical "Elohim" in the Elohist part of the Genesis is them plural form,   
   literally meaning "gods" (male gods, as -im implies masculine plural).   
      
   I.e. "Let us make a man in our own image ...."   
      
   Singular Eloah in Hebrew scriptures that didn't have vowels is only "lh". So   
   we do not know how the Hebrews in the times of Moses or Abraham pronounced it   
   (Eloah, AaLah, AaLoh or otherwise).   
      
   But convince yourself from quoted theologians:   
      
   The word elohim or 'elohiym (ʼĕlôhîym) is a grammatically plural noun for   
   "gods" or "deities" or various other words in Biblical Hebrew.[1   
   [2][4][7][8][9][13]   
      
   In Hebrew, the ending -im normally indicates a masculine plural. However, when   
   referring to the Jewish God, Elohim is usually understood to be grammatically   
   singular (i.e., it governs a singular verb or adjective).[6][14] In Modern   
   Hebrew, it is often    
   referred to in the singular despite the -im ending that denotes plural   
   masculine nouns in Hebrew.[15][16]   
      
   It is generally thought that Elohim is derived from eloah,[1][2][4][7][8][9]   
   the latter being an expanded form of the Northwest Semitic noun 'il.[17][18]   
   The related nouns eloah (אלוה) and el (אֵל) are used as proper names or   
   as generics, in which    
   case they are interchangeable with elohim.[18] The term contains an added heh   
   as third radical to the biconsonantal root. Discussions of the etymology of   
   elohim essentially concern this expansion. An exact cognate outside of Hebrew   
   is found in Ugaritic ʾ   
   lhm,[17] the family of El, the creator god and chief deity of the Canaanite   
   pantheon, in Biblical Aramaic ʼĔlāhā and later Syriac Alaha ("God"), and   
   in Arabic ʾilāh ("god, deity") (or Allah as "The [single] God").[17] "El"   
   (the basis for the    
   extended root ʾlh) is usually derived from a root meaning "to be strong"   
   and/or "to be in front".[18]   
      
   in the LORD   
   Amen   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)