On 8/5/02 9:26 am, Fernando Arias at fernando.arias AT lycos.com wrote:plural!
1) Why is Elohim used with a singular meaning in most of Genesis 1 but it has
a plural meaning in Genesis 1:26?
It does not have a plural meaning in Gen 1:26. Here elohim is the subject of
the verb )MR which is masculine singular. The plural form of (&H has no
grammatical bearing on the number of Elohim. It is as if I wrote:
I said, "We should go to the shops today."
The fact that "we" is the subject of my quoted speech does not make me
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