Re: Elohim (yoel and Carr)

Adnan (balboa19@idt.net)
Mon, 12 May 1997 15:14:59 -0700

At 08:45 AM 5/12/97 -0600, yoe; wrote:

yoel
>What am I talking about? You are saying that just because a word in Hebrew
>ends in -im it is feminine.
>I am saying that in English, just because a word ends in -s does not mean
>it is plural.

>By the way- do you know Hebrew?

That was the response by Jochen Katz, he does say that he knows Hebrew.
I forwarded your post to him because he asked me the same question earlier.

CARR
>Eloah is used only in Job (AFAIK) and appears just to be a poetic
>variant of El, according to my commentary. Elohim is not the plural of
>Eloah.

ADNAN
Carr, Jochen claims the above statement is false :-(

KATZ
Adnan's friend should get himself a decent Bible dictionary
and concordance before making too many such embarrassing mistakes.

No, it is not only in Job, it is for example in:

Isaiah 44:8, Deuteronomy 32:15,17, Psalm 18:31,
Habakkuk 3:3, 2 Chron. 32:15, Proverbs 30:5

Yes, it is most prominently in Job, but not only.