guðs

Guðs is the genitive singular form of the Icelandic noun guð, meaning "god." It is used to indicate possession or association with a deity, and occurs commonly in religious and literary contexts, including translations of biblical texts. Examples include Guðs miskunn ("God's mercy"), Guðs vilja ("God's will"), and sonur Guðs ("son of God"). In standard Icelandic syntax, Guðs accompanies a possessed noun or serves in phrases that express possession by or relation to a deity.

Guð itself belongs to the Germanic language family and is cognate with Old Norse goð, English god, and German Gott. The genitive form Guðs mirrors the historical Germanic practice of marking possession with a suffix. In Icelandic orthography, the form is capitalized as a proper noun when referring to the deity, and it integrates with the noun's inflection by case and number, depending on syntactic context.

In addition to its religious sense, guð appears in poetry and philosophy to reference divinity in a general sense. The word and its genitive forms continue to be a standard part of Icelandic language and are encountered in everyday speech, liturgy, and literature. Parallel possessive constructions can be found in other Nordic languages, such as Danish Guds and Swedish Guds, though the exact forms differ by language.