Various customs have arrangements of many names of God, a significant number of which count the different characteristics of a Supreme Being. The English word "God" (and its proportional in different dialects) is utilized by numerous religions as a thing or name to allude to various divinities. Old related counterparts for "God" incorporate proto-Semitic El, scriptural Hebrew Elohim, Arabic 'ilah, and scriptural Aramaic Elah.
The individual or appropriate name for God in a considerable lot of these dialects may either be recognized from such characteristics or homonymic. For instance, in Judaism, the Tetragrammaton is in some cases identified with the old Hebrew ehyeh (I will be).