Elohim is the first name for God in the Bible — in the beginning God (Elohim) created the heaven and the earth. It speaks of God's power and majesty as Creator and sovereign. Curiously, Elohim is grammatically plural, yet it takes singular verbs (God created, not gods created) — a feature many Christians see as a quiet early hint of the fullness within the one God later revealed as Trinity.
Where Yahweh is God's intimate covenant name, Elohim is his name as the mighty Maker of all things — the God of gods, supreme over every power. Genesis 1 uses it more than thirty times, hammering home that behind the whole created order stands one sovereign, all-powerful God, who spoke, and it was so.
Elohim in Scripture
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.