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See also:Appendix:Variations of "god"

English

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The Creation of Adam byMichelangelo Buonarotti, showing the ChristianGod

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European*-tós
Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰutós?
Proto-West Germanic*god
Old Englishgod
Middle Englishgod
Middle EnglishGod
EnglishGod

    Derived fromMiddle EnglishGod. Seegod.

    Pronunciation

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    Proper noun

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    God (usuallyuncountable,pluralGods)

    2. The firstdeity of varioustheisticreligions, and the only deity inmonotheism.
      Dawn believes inGod, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses.
      1. (Trinitarian Christianity)God the Father as distinguished fromJesus Christ,God the Son.
        • 1899,The Sunday School Journal, page378:
          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 whyGod let Jesus die upon the cross.
    3. The single male deity of variousbitheistic orduotheistic religions.
      • 2001, Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy,Jesus and the Lost Goddess,page133:
        The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically asGod and Goddess. When Mystery looks at itself,God looks at Goddess.
      • 2005, Nikki Bado-Fralick,Coming to the Edge of the Circle,page45:
        This reduces the successful invocation ofGod to a function of the presence of male genitalia. Put another way, women have the wrong equipment to invokeGod.
        Goddess andGod 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,page22:
        God and Goddess watched as the finite universe continued to develop into a stable platform to sustain finite life and were pleased.
    4. (philosophy) Thetranscendentprinciple, for example the ultimatecause orprime mover, often not considered as aperson.
      • 1895, “The Tâo-Tĭh-King, or Thoughts on the Nature and Manifestations ofGod”, in G. G. Alexander, transl.,Lâo-Tsze the Great Thinker […],page55:
        God (the great everlasting infinite First Cause from whom all things in heaven and earth proceed) [translating Chinese道] can neither be defined nor named.
      • 2000, Catriona Hanley,Being and God in Aristotle and Heidegger,→ISBN,page195:
        For Aristotle,God as the ultimate ground is the being that is responsible for the workings of the rational cosmos, but not for itself.
      • 2017, Aryeh Finkelberg,Heraclitus and Thales’ Conceptual Scheme: A Historical Study,→ISBN,page156:
        Now, if night, winter, hunger, and war, which describe theGod’s appearance as the multiple world, are his ‘scents’ and ‘names’, the same must be true of the world’s several constituents: all created things are just transient ‘scents’, and their names misnomers, of the fieryGod.

    Usage notes

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    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. It is also capitalized in Sikhism.

    Monotheistic Gods are traditionally referenced in English withmasculine pronouns and (when depicted) anthropomorphized in the form of adultmen, but also traditionally held by theologians to be beyond humansex orgender. Like other languages employingLatin script, English pronouns referring to a God traditionally begin with acapital letter as a sign of respect:He,Him,His, andHimself in the third person andThee,Thou,Thy,Thine,Thyself orYou,Your, andYourself in direct address. However, this use is not universal and theKing James Version of theBible, as well as other modern translations, employ standard uncapitalized pronouns.[2] See also:LORD.

    SomeJews consider the English word "God" to fall under the Hebrewkhumra concerning the avoidance ofblasphemy, preferring to use the formG-d or alternatives such asHashem,Lord, etc.

    According toTrinitarian branches of Christianity (e.g.,Catholicism,Eastern Orthodoxy, mostProtestant denominations), 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.

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    Translations

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    single deity of monotheism—see alsogod,‎deity
    single male deity of duotheism
    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
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    Noun

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    God (pluralGods)

    1. Abeingsuch as amonotheisticGod: asingledivinecreator andruler of theuniverse.
      • 1563, Barnabe Googe,Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes, sig. Cviiiv:
        AGod there is, thatguyds theGlobe, andframde thefyckleSpheare.
      • 1911, Katharine Harris Bradley asMichael Field,Accuser, p. 158:
        TheMuéddin: God is great, there is noGod but God.
      • 1960 April 25, advertisement inLife, p. 125:
        Perhaps this... must involve a relationship with aGod of truth—and of love, of mercy, of justice.
      • 2009,Nick Cave,The Death of Bunny Munro, page68:
        Whoever said that there isn't aGod is full of shit!

    Translations

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    an omnipotent being

    Interjection

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    God

    1. Ellipsis ofoh 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!

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    References

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

    Anagrams

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    Afrikaans

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    Etymology

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    FromDutchGod.

    Pronunciation

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    Proper noun

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    God

    1. God

    Dutch

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    Etymology

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    Seegod.

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    God m

    1. God
      God, neem me mee naar een plek hier ver vandaan. --Kempi & Willy -Hier Ver Vandaan 2009[2]
      Oh, mijnGod
      Oh my god
      • 1934,Martinus Nijhoff, “De moeder de vrouw”, inNieuwe gedichten [New poems]‎[3]; reprinted in W.J. van den Akker en G.J. Dorleijn, editors,Verzamelde gedichten [Collected poems], Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker,2001,→ISBN, page232:
        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. / PrijsGod, 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. / PraiseGod, she sang, His hand will preserve you.

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    (See also the derived terms atgod.)

    Descendants

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    • Skepi Creole Dutch:Godt

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    Middle English

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      Noun

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      God

      1. alternative form ofgod

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      God

      1. alternative form ofgod

      Old English

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      Seegod.

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      God m

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

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      Stronga-stem:

      singularplural
      nominativeGod—
      accusativeGod—
      genitiveGodes—
      dativeGode—

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      Saterland Frisian

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      Inherited fromOld Frisiangod, fromProto-West Germanic*god. Cognates includeWest Frisiangod andGermanGott.

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      God m

      1. God

      Noun

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      God m (pluralGode)

      1. god

      References

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      • Piet Kramer (1961), “God”, inSeelter Woudebouk (Paat Seeltersk-Düütsk)‎[4], Leeuwarden
      • Marron C. Fort (2015), “God”, inSaterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske,→ISBN

      Scots

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      Etymology

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      Inherited fromOld Englishgod.

      Proper noun

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      God

      1. God

      Tok Pisin

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      Inherited fromEnglishGod.

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      God

      1. God(Abrahamicmonotheisticdeity)

      Volapük

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      Borrowed fromEnglishGod.

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      God

      1. God

      West Frisian

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      Seegod.

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      God

      1. God

      Yola

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      Proper noun

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      God

      1. alternative form ofGud
        • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number14, page90:
          Zo bless all oore frends, anGod zpeed ee plowe.
          So bless all our friends, andGod speed the plough.

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      • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, published1867,page90
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