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elohist

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E⋅lo⋅hist

  [e-loh-hist, el-oh-]
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–noun
a writer of one of the major sources of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Elohim rather than Yahweh.
Compare Yahwist.

Origin:
1860–65; < Heb ĕlōah God + -ist

Related forms:
El⋅o⋅his⋅tic, adjective
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El·o·hist   (ěl'ō-hĭst', ə-lō'-)   
n.  The putative author of the earliest sources of the Pentateuch in which God is called Elohim.
El'o·his'tic adj.
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