Elohist

E·lo·hist

[e-loh-hist, el-oh-]
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; < Hebrew ĕlōah God + -ist

El·o·his·tic, adjective
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Elohist (ɛˈləʊhɪst) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Old Testament the supposed author or authors of one of the four main strands of text of the Pentateuch, identified chiefly by the use of the word Elohim for God instead of YHVH (Jehovah)

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Elohist is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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