El·o·hist (?l??-h?st?, ?-l??-)n. The putative author of the earliest sources of the Pentateuch in which God is called Elohim.El?o·his?tic adj.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.Elohist (??l??h?st) n (Bible) Old Testament the supposed author or authors of one of the four main strands of text of the Pentateuch, identified chiefly by the use of the word Elohim for God instead of YHVH (Jehovah)Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014E?lo?hist (??lo? h?st, ??l o?-) n. a writer of one of the major sources of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Elohim rather than Yahweh. Compare Yahwist. [1860?65] El`o?his?tic, adj. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.Elohistthe author of part of the first six books in the Old Testament, so named because of references to God as Elohim. Cf. Yahwist.See also: Bible-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.