The lexical meanings of "elohim"

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Strong's Hebrew: 430. אֱלֹהִים (elohim) — 2598 Occurrences

Brown-Driver-Briggs:

  1. plural in number.
    a. rulers, judges, either as divine representatives at sacred places or as reflecting divine majesty and power
    b. divine ones, superhuman beings including God and angels
    c. angels
    d. gods
  2. Plural intensive.
    a. god or goddess
    b. godlike one
  3. הָאֱלֹהִים the (TRUE) God
The word appears frequently and is polysemantic. It could mean from the one true God to gods and idols, angels, and even human rulers and judges.

NASB Translation
divine (1), divine being (1), exceedingly (1), God (2326), god (45), God's (14), goddess (2), godly (1), gods (204), great (2), judges (3), mighty (2), rulers (1), shrine* (1).

About 90% of the time, NASB translated elohim as "God".