Going back 3,500 years, the Hebrew word “Elohim” referred exclusively to the Supreme Being. It’s even a protected word, not to be uttered in wain — or at least that was the impression I ...

The words El, Elah, Elohei and Elohim are pre Abrahamic west Semitic generic terms for a God or for many Gods. In these various forms they appear almost 3,000 times in the Hebrew Bible.