Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
Elohiym אֱלֹהִים
Original: אלהים
Transliteration: 'ĕlôhı̂ym
Phonetic: el-o-heem'
BDB Definition:
The King James Version translates Strongs H430 in the following manner: God (2,346x), god (244x), judge (5x), GOD (1x), goddess (2x), great (2x), mighty (2x), angels (1x), exceeding (1x), God-ward (with H4136) (1x), godly (1x).
God And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God (elohiym) ascending and descending on it. - Gen 28:12
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God (elohiym) met him. - Gen 32:1
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, (elohiym) and hast crowned him with glory and honour. -Psa 8:5
The chariots of God (elohiym) are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place - Psa 68:17
"When seven are used; they represent the planetary angels called by the Jews “Elohim”, whose numerical and Qabbalistic values are also seven."- Melchizedek And the Mystery of Fire by Manly P. Hall pg. 18
The Elohiym's Works
Creation
Day 1
They created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1
They said, Let there be light: and there was light. - Genesis 1:3
They divided the light from the darkness called the light Day, and the darkness they called Night. - Genesis 1:5
Day 2
Day 3
5. They said, Let the waters, they called seas under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land, they called earth, appear - Genesis 1:9-10
Day 4
They said Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years and to give light upon the earth: and it was so. - Genesis 1:14-15
They made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night,also the stars - Genesis 1:16-18
Day 5
They said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and they created greate whales also fowl that may fly above the earth. -Genesis 1:20-21
They blessed them, saying, Be fruitful,and multiply the water, and let fowl multiply the earth.-Genesis 1:22
Day 6
They said and made, the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.- Genesis 1:24-25
They said, Let us make man in our image and they created man male and female created he them, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
They blessed them, and said, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. - Genesis 1:26-28
The Elohiym Rest After Preparing For War
The Elohiym which are defined as the rulers, judges, divine ones or angels finished there work and prepare for war.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them .- Genesis 2:1 King James Version
Heavens here is:
H8064
Transliteration: shâmayim shâmeh
Phonetic: shaw-mah’-yim
BDB Definition:
heaven, heavens, sky
visible heavens, sky
as abode of the stars
as the visible universe
Host here is :
H6635 Transliteration: tsâbâ’ tsebâ’âh
BDB Definition:
that which goes forth, army, war, warfare, host
army, host
host (of organised army)
host (of angels)
of sun, moon, and stars
of whole creation
war, warfare, service, go out to war
service
Thus Genesis 2:1 can be understood better in this way:
Thus the universe and the earth were finished, (by the Elohiym) and all the army was prepared .
On the seventh day the Elohiym ended their work and rested. They blessed the day because they rested. - Genesis 2:2-3
Yehovah/YHWH/Jehovah of the Elohiym
...the LORD God (Yehovah/Jehovah of the Elohiym) made the earth and the heavens, - Genesis 2:4
Because I will publish (cry out, proclaim) the name of the LORD (Yehovah/Jehovah): ascribe ye greatness unto our God (the Elohiym).
He is the Rock, his work is perfect (complete, whole, entire, sound): for all his ways are judgment: a God (El) of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. Deuteronomy 32:3-4 King James Version
Yehovah/Jehovah will ascribe greatness unto the Elohiym but El (Shaddai) is just and right.
