God

See also: Appendix:Variations of "god"

English

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The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo Buonarotti, showing the Christian God

Etymology

From Middle English God. See god.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) enPR: gŏd, IPA(key): /ɡɒd/, /ɡɔːd/
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  • (AAVE) IPA(key): /ɡɑ(d)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɡɑd/
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  • Rhymes: -ɒd
  • Homophone: gaud (in accents with the father-bother merger)

Proper noun

God (usually uncountable, plural Gods)

  • The single deity of various monotheistic religions, especially the deity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
    1. Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses.
      1. (Christianity) God the Father, the fountainhead and coeternal hypostasis (person) of the Trinity described in the Old Testament, and in the New Testament as the father of Jesus.
        • 1899, The Sunday School Journal, page 378:
          God sent Jesus to earth to be the King of the Jews; that is, the one to tell them what they should do. […] I will tell you why God let Jesus die upon the cross.
      2. (Christianity, often poetic) God the Son, the begotten and coeternal hypostasis of the Trinity, incarnated as Jesus Christ, of one essence with the Father and Holy Spirit.
        Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
    2. The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.
      • 2001, Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Lost Goddess, page 133:
        The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically as God and Goddess. When Mystery looks at itself, God looks at Goddess.
      • 2005, Nikki Bado-Fralick, Coming to the Edge of the Circle, page 45:
        This reduces the successful invocation of God to a function of the presence of male genitalia. Put another way, women have the wrong equipment to invoke God.
        Goddess and God flow throughout all of nature, through each and every man and woman, becoming fully present in the world.
      • 2006, Ronald L. Clark, The Grace of Being, page 22:
        God and Goddess watched as the finite universe continued to develop into a stable platform to sustain finite life and were pleased.

    Usage notes

    The word "God" is capitalized in reference to the Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths almost without exception, even when preceded by various qualifiers.[1] The term is frequently, but not always, capitalized in vaguer deistic references to a single deity as well.

    Monotheistic Gods are traditionally referenced in English with masculine pronouns and (when depicted) anthropomorphized in the form of adult men, but also traditionally held by theologians to be beyond human sex or gender. Like other languages employing Latin script, English pronouns referring to a God traditionally begin with a capital letter as a sign of respect: He, Him, His, and Himself in the third person and Thee, Thy, Thine, Thyself or You, Your, and Yourself in direct address. However, this use is not universal and the King James Version of the Bible (as well as other modern translations) employs standard uncapitalized pronouns.[2] See also: LORD.

    Some Jews consider the English word "God" to fall under the Hebrew khumra concerning the avoidance of blasphemy, preferring to use the form G-d or alternatives such as Hashem, Lord, etc.

    According to those branches of Christianity which follow the Nicene Creed (e.g. Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, most Protestant sects), God and the Holy Trinity are one and the same, with three distinct persons: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all God, but none of the three are one or both of the other persons.

    Synonyms

    Derived terms

    Translations

    single deity of monotheism — See also translations at god,‎ deity
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    Noun

    God (plural Gods)

    1. A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe.
      • 1563, Barnabe Googe, Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes, sig. Cviiiv:
        A God there is, that guyds the Globe, and framde the fyckle Spheare.
      • 1911, Katharine Harris Bradley as Michael Field, Accuser, p. 158:
        The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.
      • 1960 April 25, advertisement in Life, p. 125:
        Perhaps this... must involve a relationship with a God of truth—and of love, of mercy, of justice.
      • 2009, Nick Cave, The Death of Bunny Munro, p. 68:
        Whoever said that there isn't a God is full of shit!

    Translations

    Interjection

    God

    1. Short for oh God: expressing annoyance or frustration.
      God, is this because of the "I don't love you anymore" T-shirt I bought? It was a joke!

    See also

    References

    1. http://biblehub.com/psalms/18-31.htm
    2. http://biblehub.com/psalms/18-30.htm

    Anagrams

    Afrikaans

    Etymology

    From Dutch God.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /χɔt/
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    Proper noun

    God

    1. God

    Dutch

    Etymology

    See god.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɣɔt/
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    • audio (Netherlands)(file)
    • Hyphenation: God
    • Rhymes: -ɔt

    Proper noun

    God m

    1. God
      God, neem me mee naar een plek hier ver vandaan. -- Kempi & Willy - Hier Ver Vandaan 2009
      Oh, mijn God
      Oh my god
      • 1934, Martinus Nijhoff, “De moeder de vrouw”, in Nieuwe gedichten [New poems]‎; reprinted in W.J. van den Akker en G.J. Dorleijn, editors, Verzamelde gedichten [Collected poems], Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 2001, →ISBN, page 232:
        Zij was alleen aan dek, zij stond bij 't roer, / en wat zij zong hoorde ik dat psalmen waren. / O, dacht ik, o, dat daar mijn moeder voer. / Prijs God, zong zij, Zijn hand zal u bewaren.
        She was alone on deck, she was at the helm, / and what she sang, I heard, were psalms. / Oh, I thought, oh, were it that my mother sailed there. / Praise God, she sang, His hand will preserve you.

    Derived terms

    (See also the derived terms at god.)

    Descendants

    • Skepi Creole Dutch: Godt

    See also

    Middle English

    Noun

    God

    1. Alternative form of god

    Proper noun

    God

    1. Alternative form of god

    Old English

    Etymology

    See god.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɡod/

    Proper noun

    God m

    1. God
      Ġif God nǣre, þonne sċolde man hine āþenċan.
      If God didn't exist, we would have to invent him.
      Hwæt wāt iċ be Gode and be līfes andġiete? Iċ wāt þæt þēos weorold is.
      What do I know about God and the meaning of life? I know that this world exists.

    Declension

    Declension of God (strong a-stem)
    Case Singular Plural
    nominative God —
    accusative God —
    genitive Godes —
    dative Gode —

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Middle English: God

    Saterland Frisian

    Etymology

    From Old Frisian god, from Proto-West Germanic *god. Cognates include West Frisian god and German Gott.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɣɔd/
    • Hyphenation: God
    • Rhymes: -ɔd

    Proper noun

    God m

    1. God

    Noun

    God m (plural Gode)

    1. god

    References

    • Piet Kramer (1961), “God”, in Seelter Woudebouk (Paat Seeltersk-Düütsk), Leeuwarden
    • Marron C. Fort (2015), “God”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

    Scots

    Etymology

    From Old English god.

    Proper noun

    God

    1. God

    Tok Pisin

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    Etymology

    From English God.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɡod/

    Proper noun

    God

    1. God (Abrahamic monotheistic deity)

    Volapük

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English God.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɡod/

    Proper noun

    God

    1. God

    West Frisian

    Etymology

    See god.

    Proper noun

    God

    1. God

    Yola

    Proper noun

    God

    1. Alternative form of gud
      • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14:
        Zo bless all oore frends, an God zpeed ee plowe.
        So bless all our friends, and God speed the plough.

    References

    • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 90
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