אֵל

elGod
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine241 occurrences22 books231 verses
This word comes from the names of Baal-berith and LORD.

Definition

shortened from H352; strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity)
Traditional renderings: God (god), × goodly, × great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare names in '-el.'

Glossary entries

Lord Righteousness Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? Baal-Berith El-berith Abba

Where it occurs

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

241 total
  1. Genesis 14:18לְאֵ֥ל · of God
    Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High—
  2. Genesis 14:19לְאֵ֣ל · by God
    …and he blessed Abram and said: “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
  3. Genesis 14:20אֵ֣ל · God
    …and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
  4. Genesis 14:22אֵ֣ל · God
    But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
  5. Genesis 16:13אֵ֣ל · the God
    So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
  6. Genesis 17:1אֵ֣ל · am God
    When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
  7. Genesis 21:33אֵ֥ל · God
    And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
  8. Genesis 28:3וְאֵ֤ל · May God
    May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
  9. Genesis 31:13הָאֵל֙ · am the God
    I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up, leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”
  10. Genesis 31:29לְאֵ֣ל
    I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
  11. Genesis 33:20אֵ֖ל · El-Elohe-Israel
    There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
  12. Genesis 35:1לָאֵל֙ · to the God
    Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
  13. Genesis 35:3לָאֵ֞ל · to God
    Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
  14. Genesis 35:11אֵ֤ל · am God
    And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
  15. Genesis 43:14וְאֵ֣ל · May God
    May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”
  16. Genesis 46:3הָאֵ֖ל · am God
    “I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
  17. Genesis 48:3אֵ֥ל · God
    Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me
  18. Genesis 49:25מֵאֵ֨ל · by the God
    …by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.
  19. Exodus 6:3בְּאֵ֣ל · as God
    I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.
  20. Exodus 15:2אֵלִי֙ · my God
    The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
  21. Exodus 15:11בָּֽאֵלִם֙ · among the gods
    Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
  22. Exodus 20:5אֵ֣ל · God
    You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  23. Exodus 34:6אֵ֥ל · God
    Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
  24. Exodus 34:14 (2×)לְאֵ֣ל · god; אֵ֥ל · God
    For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
  25. Numbers 12:13אֵ֕ל · O God
    So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”
  26. Numbers 16:22אֵ֕ל · O God
    But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
  27. Numbers 23:8אֵ֑ל · God
    How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced?
  28. Numbers 23:19אֵל֙ · God
    God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
  29. Numbers 23:22אֵ֖ל · God
    God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.
  30. Numbers 23:23אֵֽל׃ · great things God
    For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’
  31. Numbers 24:4אֵ֑ל · of God
    …the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:
  32. Numbers 24:8אֵ֚ל · God
    God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
  33. Numbers 24:16אֵ֔ל · of God
    …the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:
  34. Numbers 24:23אֵֽל׃ · unless God
    Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?
  35. Deuteronomy 3:24אֵל֙ · god
    “O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?
  36. Deuteronomy 4:24אֵ֖ל · God
    For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
  37. Deuteronomy 4:31אֵ֤ל · God
    For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.
  38. Deuteronomy 5:9אֵ֣ל · God
    You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  39. Deuteronomy 6:15אֵ֥ל · God
    For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.
  40. Deuteronomy 7:9הָאֵל֙ · God
    Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
  41. Deuteronomy 7:21אֵ֥ל · God
    Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.
  42. Deuteronomy 10:17הָאֵ֨ל · God
    For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
  43. Deuteronomy 28:32לְאֵ֖ל · power in
    Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
  44. Deuteronomy 32:4אֵ֤ל · A God
    He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
  45. Deuteronomy 32:12אֵ֥ל · god
    The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.
  46. Deuteronomy 32:18אֵ֥ל · the God
    You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
  47. Deuteronomy 32:21אֵ֔ל · God
    They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
  48. Deuteronomy 33:26כָּאֵ֖ל · like the God
    “There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
  49. Joshua 3:10אֵ֥ל · God [is]
    He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.