Maybe someone out there will find this useful. I’ve been analyzing the semantic ranges of the different ways the authors use the words that mean “deity.” As part of this research, I’ve been putting together a document that lists every occurrence of the three Hebrew words and one Aramaic word that mean “deity,” both generic (“god[s]“) and appellative (“God”): elohim, el, eloah, and elah. I finally finished and thought I would share. You can find the Word doc here and the PDF here. I list the word, the number of occurrences, the individual references, and then the number of occurrences by book. I go from the most common word (elohim: 2600 occurrences) to the least common (eloah: 58 occurrences). The next step is to separate out the references to Yhwh from the references to other deities.
January 25, 2012
Words Meaning “Deity”
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January 26th, 2012 at 9:53 am
This is indeed very helpful for some of your readers. I am one of them. Thanks for labor and the upload.
January 28th, 2012 at 8:01 am
[...] (6) Daniel O. McClellan created a list of every reference to deity in Hebrew and Aramaic in the Hebrew Bible. [...]
February 13th, 2012 at 11:05 pm
Thanks Dan, I needed this. Shalom brother and Jesus Bless you always!