Biblical Hebrew Forum

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Can anyone help me in a matter of meaning and referent with the word 
ELOHIM(Forgive me if I have not transcribed this correctly for this list)?
My questions are: Does this word have a 'basic' meaning and if so what is it? 
Secondly, when we look at such lexicons as Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius and 
it mentions "judges" and "angels" is this indicating the _meaning_ of the 
word or its _referent_ in any given Biblcal scripture?
In anticipation of your help,
Rebecca E Barnard