ELAH אֱלהִ, a possible root of Elohim

ELAH אֱלהִ, a possible root of Elohim

Reflection & Discussion—an ancient meaning of the word Elah speaks of ‘a strong leader teaching and revealing’.  This ancient meaning was discovered through studying the meanings of the Hebrew Letters used to spell Elah.  Let’s examine the meanings of the letters and bring those meanings together to derive a possible meaning of Elohim—which may be called an ancient meaning.

The meanings of letters of the name Elohim are:

• א    Aleph - strong leader

• ל     Lamed - Leading toward, teaching
• הִ   Hey – reveal- making what is being taught known  This teaching is about a mighty

Consider

Bringing the meanings together, we have the ‘Ancient Meaning’ of Elah: ‘Strong leader teaching and revealing’.

The ancient meaning, stated above, shows us starting from Genesis 1:1, that God wants to teach us about Himself and is about (revelation of Himself).

Strong’s Number: 430 

א    Aleph - Strength, leader, first, strong leader- strong, power, leader (2b) In the ancient Hebrew, it was drawn like the head of an ox which is part of the original meaning of the letter (1a)  A

ל    Lamed - Go toward, learn, teach, urge forward - The ancient picture form of this letter is a cattle goad and in this form it symbolized: to control or the controller, to prod or urge forward, to go towards of forward, and a tongue (1a) L

ה    He, Hey – behold, to reveal, the – look, reveal, breath (2b)  It's literal meaning is a window, or lattice. The symbolic meaning is to behold, or to reveal. In rabbinic tradition the letter hey is associated with revelation! (1a) (Also by inference, the meaning could mean--expose or show.)  E

* Possible Letter Meaning of Elohim—the strong leader who through teaching reveals.