Godhead


[god-hed] /ˈgɒdˌhɛd/

noun
1.

2.
(lowercase) divinity; godhood.
3.
(lowercase) Rare. a god or goddess; deity.
/ˈɡɒdˌhɛd/
noun (sometimes not capital)
1.
the essential nature and condition of being God
2.
the Godhead, God
n.

c.1200, from god + Middle English -hede, cognate with -hood and German -heit. Along with maidenhead, this is the sole survival of this form of the suffix. Old English had godhad “divine nature.”

(Acts 17:29; Rom. 1:20; Col. 2:9), the essential being or the nature of God.

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