Also 7 elohym. [Heb. ĕlōhīm, pl. of [Hebrew] god, but often construed as sing. with sense ‘God’ or ‘a god.’] One of the Hebrew names of God, or of the gods.
1605. Timme, Quersit., I. ii. 7. That Elohym … Who moved upon the waters.
1715. Kersey, Elohim, one of the names of God in the bible.
1862. Stanley, Jew. Ch. (1877), I. i. 19. Abraham saw that all the Elohim were meant for God.
† b. transf. in allusion to the supposed use of the word in certain passages of the Bible to denote earthly potentates, (This interpretation is now abandoned, exc. in the ironical passage Ps. lxxxii. 6.)
1682. Sir T. Browne, Chr. Mor. (1716), 19. He who is thus his own Monarch contentedly sways the Scepter of himself, not envying the Glory of Crowned Heads and Elohims of the Earth.
