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Bible Word Studies: A How-to Guide is unavailable, but you can change that!

If you’ve ever studied another language, you know just how hard it can be to understand the nuances of words. Defining words from ancient languages is even more challenging, since we are separated from an author by both language and time. Dictionaries can provide us with cut-and-dried answers, but studying a passage in context breathes history, culture, and life into each word. In Bible Word...

Elohim is actually the Hebrew plural of El “god”—so a few times it simply refers to “gods” (e.g., Gen 31:30; 35:2, 4) and by extension can be used for divine beings or angels (e.g., Gen 6:2, 4; 23:6; 30:8).