A few days ago
semivalue

Is ‘God’ a singular or plural? Eg. “God bless you.” & “God is almighty.”?

Is ‘God’ a singular or plural? Eg. “God bless you.” & “God is almighty.”?

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A few days ago
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Singular. “Bless” in “God bless you” is subjunctive. The sentence is not trying to say “God blesses you” as if it were just a matter of fact. It’s more acurately “May God bless you,” but we tend to drop the “may.” Subjunctive doesn’t get used much these days in English, but you still find it in very old espressions: peace (or ‘may the force’!) be with you, truth be told, long live the queen
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5 years ago
charity
I agree. Lets try this slogan: Bird bless America. No that just does not sound right. I know, Hamster bless America. Nooo that does not ring a good tone either. My little brain is working here, I got it, we will change it completely around to something different like: “We Americans hate ignorance and are superior”. That sounds good (better than Hamster Bless America) but I think it is a little to long for a slogan. I know, “We Americans hate Everyone and have swell Atheist”. That’s Perfect as it is to the point and has no hidden agendas. Do you not agree?
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A few days ago
treebird
g/God is neither singular nor plural. God is just g/God. The expression ‘God bless you.” is actually an incomplete sentence. It could mean “I direct God to bless you.” or “I ask that God bless you.” But in essence it just means “I think you deserve to be blessed by God.”

And that’s why it’s not God blesses you. It is not describing what has happened or is happening or does happen. It is recommending what should happen.

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A few days ago
Soul Flower
GOD bless you is short for May God bless you. This is a well wish for GOD’s goodness to be imparted towards the object (you). Said all of that to say singular.
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A few days ago
winterlotus
The actual phrase is “May God Bless You”.

So, it is singular, not plural.

Nowadays, people drop the ”may” and just say “God Bless You”.

Someone above gave the right answer, similar to mine.

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A few days ago
possonian
it’s singular and the reason for “bless” instead of blesses is because the person is asking for God to bless the person.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
both – but one or the other for more narrow minded people

but what you are really asking about here is verb-subject agreement

singular form is “is” – God is great.

plural form is “are” – Greek gods are great.

“God bless you” is used as a directive phrase – you are telling someone something

“God blesses you” means something else, which is easy to understand if you expand the statement to “God blesses you with many things.”

P.S. make up your own mind about God and don’t listen to anyone else

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A few days ago
kayneriend
God is not singular or plural or feminine or masculine. It is an ‘IT’, an entity not a person. Nothing with our form of world!
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A few days ago
Anonymous
people believe different things

Christians, Jews, and one more group that i don’t remember all think that there is 1 god.

and then the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Indians, Some of the Asians, Native Americans, Africans, and all of the other groups in the world think that there is 2 or more gods.

hope that helps!!!

Snowboarder25

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A few days ago
Ally…
It depends on what religion you are. To christian God is a trinity, of God, the son[ jesus] and the holy spirit, yet those are all brough together to make one. So he’s a singular.
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