Jehovah's Witnesses for the New Birth Reformation Movement

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Elohim: Plural or Singular? According to Nehemia Gordon, a student of Emanuel Tov, a renowned Hebrew scholar: "To determine whether the word Elohim means "God" in the singular or "gods" in the plural, we must examine not only the suffix -im at the end of the word Elohim, but also the adjectives and verbs that accompany it. If the adjectives and verbs are plural, we would be forced to conclude that Elohim is also plural. However, if the adjectives and verbs are singular, we know for sure that Elohim denotes one God. In the very first verse of the Torah (Law), we read the word bara elohim, which means "Elohim (he) created." In Hebrew, the verb bara literally means "he created," which suggests that Elohim should be understood in the singular. If Elohim were plural, the verse would contain the word bar’u elohim “Elohim (they) created” with the plural verb bar’u. In fact, the word Elohim occurs over 2,000 times in the Hebrew Scriptures with the ...