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. Isaiah 9:6אֵ֣ל · God
    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
  2. Isaiah 10:21אֵ֖ל · God
    A remnant will return—a remnant of Jacob—to the Mighty God.
  3. Isaiah 12:2אֵ֧ל · God
    Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
  4. Isaiah 14:13אֵ֖ל · of God
    You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.
  5. Isaiah 31:3אֵ֔ל · God
    But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
  6. Isaiah 40:18אֵ֑ל · God
    To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?
  7. Isaiah 42:5הָאֵ֣ל׀ · God
    This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
  8. Isaiah 43:10אֵ֔ל · god
    “You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.
  9. Isaiah 43:12אֵֽל׃ · am God
    I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed—I, and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.
  10. Isaiah 44:10אֵ֖ל · a god
    Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
  11. Isaiah 44:15אֵל֙ · into a god
    It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread. He also fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
  12. Isaiah 44:17 (2×)לְאֵ֥ל · a god; אֵלִ֖י · are my god
    From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”
  13. Isaiah 45:14אֵ֛ל · God
    This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you; they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess to you: ‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.’”
  14. Isaiah 45:15אֵ֣ל · are a God
    Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
  15. Isaiah 45:20אֵ֖ל · a god
    Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
  16. Isaiah 45:21אֵֽל־ · God
    Speak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
  17. Isaiah 45:22אֵ֖ל · God
    Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
  18. Isaiah 46:6אֵ֔ל · into a god
    They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
  19. Isaiah 46:9אֵל֙ · am God
    Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
  20. Jeremiah 32:18הָאֵ֤ל · God
    You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,
  21. Jeremiah 51:56אֵ֧ל · is a God
    For a destroyer is coming against her—against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.
  22. Lamentations 3:41אֵ֖ל · God
    Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
  23. Ezekiel 10:5אֵל־ · of God
    The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.
  24. Ezekiel 28:2 (2×)אֵ֣ל · am a god; אֵ֔ל · a god
    “Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
  25. Ezekiel 28:9אֵ֖ל · a god
    Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
  26. Daniel 9:4הָאֵ֤ל · God
    And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,
  27. Daniel 11:36 (3×)אֵ֔ל · god; אֵ֣ל · the God; אֵלִ֔ים · of gods
    Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
  28. Hosea 1:10אֵֽל־ · God
    Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
  29. Hosea 11:9אֵ֤ל · am God
    I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God and not man—the Holy One among you—and I will not come in wrath.
  30. Hosea 11:12אֵ֔ל · God
    Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
  31. Jonah 4:2אֵֽל־ · God
    So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
  32. Micah 2:1לְאֵ֖ל · the power
    Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
  33. Micah 7:18אֵ֣ל · is a God
    Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
  34. Nahum 1:2אֵ֣ל · God
    The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.
  35. Malachi 1:9אֵ֖ל · for God’s
    “But ask now for God’s favor. Will He be gracious? Since this has come from your hands, will He show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.
  36. Malachi 2:10אֵ֥ל · God
    Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
  37. Malachi 2:11אֵ֥ל · god
    Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.