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

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  • od (archaic, regional, euphemistic)
  • god (as proper noun, often derogatory or in philosophy)

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From Middle English God. See god.

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God (usually uncountable, plural Gods)

  1. The single deity of various monotheistic religions, especially the deity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
    Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses.
    1. (Trinitarian Christianity) God the Father as distinguished from Jesus Christ, God the Son.
      • 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. The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.
    • 2001, Timothy Freke, 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.
  3. (philosophy) The transcendent principle, for example the ultimate cause or prime mover, often not considered as a person.
    • 1895, “The Tâo-Tĭh-King, or Thoughts on the Nature and Manifestations of God”, in G. G. Alexander, transl., Lâo-Tsze the Great Thinker [], page 55:
      God (the great everlasting infinite First Cause from whom all things in heaven and earth proceed) [translating Chinese ] can neither be defined nor named.
    • 2000, Catriona Hanley, Being and God in Aristotle and Heidegger, →ISBN, page 195:
      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, page 156:
      Now, if night, winter, hunger, and war, which describe the God’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 fiery God.

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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.

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, employ 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 Trinitarian branches of Christianity (e.g. Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, most Protestant 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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  • Pohnpeian: Koht

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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, page 68:
      Whoever said that there isn't a God is full of shit!

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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!

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From Dutch God.

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God

  1. God

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See god.

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

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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, mijn God
    Oh my god
    • 1934, Martinus Nijhoff, “De moeder de vrouw”, in Nieuwe 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, 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.

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(See also the derived terms at god.)

Descendants edit

  • Skepi Creole Dutch: Godt

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God

  1. Alternative form of god

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God

  1. Alternative form of god

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See god.

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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.

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  • Middle English: God

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

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God m

  1. God

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God m (plural Gode)

  1. god

References edit

  • 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

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From Old English god.

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God

  1. God

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From English God.

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God

  1. God (Abrahamic monotheistic deity)

Volapük edit

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Borrowed from English God.

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God

  1. God

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See god.

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God

  1. God

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God

  1. Alternative form of gud
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:
      Zo bless all oore frends, an God zpeed ee plowe.
      So bless all our friends, and God speed the plough.

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  • 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