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Elohim: synonyms: Adonai, Hashem, ~Tetragrammaton, Jah, El, יהוה‏ ???

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Definition:

the Hebrew name for God.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)

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ASTRUC, JEAN, a French physician and professor of medicine in Paris, now noted as having discovered that the book of Genesis consists of Elohistic* and Jehovistic portions, and who by this discovery founded the modern school called of the Higher Criticism (1681-1766).

Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopedia (1907)

*said of those passages in the Old Testament in which Elohim is used as the name for the Supreme Being instead of Jehovah.

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Though I am unworthy, much was revealed to me. Adonai is the name of the creator of the world. Elohim is the name of the ruler of all.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 06 (Book Six)