>>22036447the singular, or synonym, of "Elohim," is merely "EL" and/or "Eloah."
Biblical Hebrew occasionally employs something scholars call the 'majestic plural.' In effect it is a plural ending added to a deity's name to confer status or majesty.
In the Old Testament the best example is "Elohim" which does not mean 'the gods' but is rather the god EL with the majestic plural im appended.
and EL was the oldest god of the Israelites and this is evidenced by the fact that, in the Old Testament, up until the time of the Exodus, theophoric names incorporate only the name of EL (as, for example, IsraEL, IshmaEL, and Bethu EL).
This coincides with what is known of Canaanite religion in the pre-Israelite period.
The evidence, from Ugarit in the north to Sinai in the south, testifies that during [the pre-Israelite period] the high god of various local Canaanite pantheons was named EL.
in Akkadian inscriptions, the phonetic writing for EL is sometimes used for the logogram otherwise read as "An".
In god lists found at Mari, the two names are interchangeable and it is known that the name EL was written with the sign AN (lk-ru-ub-AN and Ik-ru-ub-Il) .
the god An and/or Anu was a personification of the planet Saturn.
>EL has much in common with the Babylonian deity, Enki-Ea, the all-wise one. And Enki/Ea is also identifiable as the same planet Saturn.>EL was the chief deity of the Mesopotamian Semites, as he was also that of the pre-Islamic Arabs besides the Canaanites.>In fact it has long been known that the pre-Islamic Allah traces to the same root as EL or Eloah.>evidence also equates EL with the Egyptian Ptah (yet another deity identified as Saturn) as also with Ba'al>EL is also associated with the Assyro-Babylonian Shamash>Cronos [or Kronos-the Greek name for the planet Saturn] is called EL by the Phoenicians 