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Visual depiction of Ruach Elohim

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Vol. IV · Monotheism

Ruach Elohim

Spirit of God


the divine breath hovering over the primordial waters at creation, depicted as wind and light moving across the formless deep in Genesis's first verse

Organization
Abrahamic Monotheism
Time period
c. 1200 BCE – present
Location
Worldwide

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Names of the One God has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.