Oooh ooh. Can I answer? Is this one of those threads??
Nah, it’s a Christian thread, AF Vet. Let Christians do their thing.
(though G-d is one and His Name is one.... not 3....)
Elohim. Uniplural. It's the "-im" that does it, eh? "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen.1:1 AV)
In this verse, "God" is "Elohim" translated into English.
Strong's Number H430
אלהים
'ĕlôhı̂ym
Brown, Driver, & Briggs Definition:
1) (plural)
. . 1a) rulers, judges
. . 1b) divine ones
. . 1c) angels
. . 1d) gods
2) (plural intensive - singular meaning)
. . 2a) god, goddess
. . 2b) godlike one
. . 2c) works or special possessions of God
. . 2d) the (true) God
. . 2e) God
Part of Speech: noun masculine plural
Therefore, "Elohim" is uniplural.
"These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, . . ." (Gen. 2:4 AV).
In this verse, "LORD" is a word substituted for the Hebrew word pronounced "Yehovah" meaning "I AM." "God" is Elohim.
Strong's Number H3068
יהוה
yehôvâh
BDB Definition:
Jehovah = “the existing One”
1) the proper name of the one true God
. . 1a) unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of H136
Part of Speech: noun proper deity<
Jehovah Elohim is the name of the Mighty God. Jehovah is uniplural in character.
שׁמע ישׂראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד׃
"Sh'ma Yisroel, Adenoi Eloheinu, Adenoi Echad" (Deut. 6:4 Hebraica Stuttgartensia, translated, reverentially subsituting 'Adenoi' for 'Jehovah')
"Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD:" (Deut. 6:4 AV)
"Adenoi" is substituted for and represents "Jehovah," the Uniplural God.
"Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me" (Isaiah 48:16 AV).
The Son was at the beginning, and is now One with The Father and The Spirit in the Godhead, Jehovah Elohim. This is not three Gods. This is One Uniplural God of One Substance, composed of three manifestations. An example in the physical universe is that of an element or a compound, one substance, existing in three phases. One employed in Biblical accounts is the compound dihydrogen oxide, whose liquid phase is water, whose solid phase is ice, and whose vapor phase is steam. All three can coexist, with continual transformation of one to another at the interface between phases.
There is no other GOD like Him.
"To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? . . . Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, . . ." (Is. 46:5,9 AV).
Alleluiah!