God
English
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Etymology
From Middle English God. See god.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
God (usually uncountable, plural Gods)
- The single deity of various monotheistic religions.
- c. 1000, Beowulf, l. 930:
- 1611, Bible (KJV), 1 John 4:8 & 16:
- 1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, Vol. II, p. 388:
- ...God, the All-gracious, the All-good, the All-bountiful, the All-mighty, the All-merciful God...
- 1911, Katharine Harris Bradley as Michael Field, Accuser, p. 158:
- The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.
- Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses.
- (Christianity) Short for God the Father, the fountainhead and coeternal hypostasis (person) of the Trinity described in the Old Testament.
- (Christianity, chiefly poetic) Short for God the Son, the begotten and coeternal hypostasis of the Trinity, incarnated as Jesus Christ, of one essence with the Father and Holy Spirit.
- a. 1000, homily recorded in Peter Clemoes's The Anglo-Saxons, p. 274:
- Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
- 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.
- 2001, Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Lost Goddess, page 133:
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]
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
- See Thesaurus:god
Derived terms
Translations
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single male deity of duotheism
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Noun
God (plural Gods)
- 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:
- 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
an omnipotent being
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Interjection
God
- 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 fer chrissakes.
See also
Bibliography
- “god, n. and int.”, in OED Online
Dutch
Etymology
See god.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɣɔt/
audio (Belgium) (file) audio (Netherlands) (file) - Hyphenation: God
- Rhymes: -ɔt
Derived terms
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą. More at god.
Derived terms
- goddelk
Tok Pisin
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡod/
Proper noun
God
- God (Abrahamic monotheistic deity)
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:2:
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