Definitions for Elohist

Elohist E·lo·hist

Spelling: [e-loh-hist, el-oh-]
IPA: /ɛˈloʊ hɪst, ˈɛl oʊ-/

Elohist is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 238 anagrams from letters in Elohist (ehilost).

Definitions for Elohist

noun

  1. a writer of one of the major sources of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Elohim rather than Yahweh.

Origin of Elohist

1860-65; Hebrew ĕlōah God + -ist

Examples for Elohist

In reality, then, the date given by Berosus only differed by two days from that adopted by the Elohist compiler of Genesis.

It had also brought into vigour the earliest and best historic literature, the narratives of the Elohist and the Jehovist.

This remarkable utterance shows how potent was the survival in the mind of Paul of the old Elohist belief.

A curious statement is made here (Elohist) as to the depth of the water being fifteen cubits.

According to the figures of the Elohist, Noah lives on among his descendants for 350 years, and dies at the age of 950.

Between the Elohist and Jahvist accounts of the creation of man, there are two differences of great importance.

The first belongs to the Jehovist, the second to the Elohist.

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