Elohist: Meaning and Definition of

E•lo•hist

Pronunciation: (e-lō'hist, el'ō-), [key]
— n.
  1. a writer of one of the major sources of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Elohim rather than Yahweh. Cf. Yahwist.
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