The plural form of elim/elohim

I was recently going through some of Heiser's material on Hebrews. In the podcast he made a statement that the plural form of elim/elohim occurred in the Hebrew Bible over 160 times. My question is--How do I duplicate that search? I know how to search the lemma and go to the analysis function for "result", but none of those results ~ equal 160--Is there another way?

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MJ. Smith

I would have expected the search argument to be lemma.sesb.h:אֱלֹהִים AND morph.sesb.h:N??P?+S??P but that gives me far too many results. So someone else will need to step in.

Dave Hooton

In the podcast he made a statement that the plural form of elim/elohim occurred in the Hebrew Bible over 160 times.

h:elim is a town

h:elohim is a grammatical plural for God and occurs about 2600 times i.e. lemma.sesb.h:אֱלֹהִים.

h:elo or h:el is singular when used for God about 205 times. i.e. lemma.sesb.h:אֵל.2

h:eloah is a grammatical single, mainly used for God (as opposed to god) about 48 times i.e. lemma.sesb.h:אֱלֹוהַּ

Can you be more precise about the Hebrew word Heiser is using? e.g. where used.

DMB

Just to keep the thread interesting:

https://www.logos.com/grow/who-are-elohim/

where it's over 2,000 times ...

Christian Alexander

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1294095#Comment_1294095

Like DMB get it rolling. This is another good piece. https://drmsh.com/the-plural-elohim-of-psalm-82-gods-or-men/

Michael S. Heiser, “Elohim as ‘Gods’ in the Old Testament,” Faithlife Study Bible, John D. Barry, Michael R. Grigoni, et al. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2012).

David Beard

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1294088#Comment_1294088

Naked Bible Podcast Transcript Episode 177 Hebrews 2 September 16, 2017—just past the 20:00 minute mark

"I published an article in Tyndale Bulletin on the Dead Sea Scroll material. There are over 160 references to plural elim or elohim—many of them in Divine Council scenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Somebody didn't get the monotheistic memo! Somebody didn't get the memo about, "Oh, we can't use divine plurality language anymore because we're monotheists now!" Again, monotheism is a modern construct. I talk about this at great length in Unseen Realm. It's a term that doesn't mean a whole lot to what you actually see in the Hebrew Bible."--Michael Heiser excerpt

Now that I look at it—he was talking about Dead Sea Scrolls material --not the Bible...my mistake. That's why we can't get the results to match...Many thanks for your help...and sorry I wasted everyone's time! (It was fun though—LOL!)

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1294103#Comment_1294103

thanks for your help...and sorry I wasted everyone's time! (It was fun though—LOL!)

I also had fun tracking the different Strong's numbers for man/men/human for another thread!

Ralph Gibson III

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1294223#Comment_1294223

Thanks for the clarification! I was running in circles trying to help answer this one.