Elohim is one of the most remarkable words in any language — a morphologically plural noun that, in the vast majority of its occurrences, refers to the one God of Israel and takes singular verbs and adjectives. This grammatical paradox has generated millennia of theological reflection, from ancient rabbinic discussion to modern trinitarian readings. In its dominant sense, Elohim is simply the standard way to say 'God' in Hebrew narrative, law, and poetry: 'In the beginning God created' (Gen 1:1). But the same form also does genuine plural work when referring to the gods of the nations — 'you shall have no other gods before me' (Exod 20:3) — and can even designate a single foreign deity like Dagon or Ashtoreth. The multilingual evidence is revealing: Arabic splits cleanly between Allah (singular, the God) and alihah (plural, gods), Korean between hananim and sindeul, while Hebrew uses the same form for both, relying on syntax and context to disambiguate.