Linguistically, Following are the same:
Eloah - Old Testament Hebrew
Ellah or Alaha - New Testament Aramaic
Allah - Qur’an Arabic
The English name “God” comes in much later from Germanic languages. It is not in any of the original texts.
Indeed, We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light. The prophets who submitted [to God] judged by it for the Jews, as did the rabbis and scholars by that with which they were entrusted of the Scripture of God, and they were witnesses thereto. So do not fear the people but fear Me, and do not exchange My verses for a small price [i.e., worldly gain]. And whoever does not judge by what God has revealed - then it is those who are the disbelievers.— Quran
Torah is written in Hebrew, and Allah is an Arabic name for God. But Arabic and Hebrew are related Semitic languages, and Arabic Allah is cognate to Hebrew Eloah, which is one of the Hebrew names of God. More precisely, Allah is Al- plus Ilah, meaning the god, and Ilah is cognate to Eloah.
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