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אֶל

elto(wards)How to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentPreposition5,513 occurrences38 books4,204 verses

Definition

(but only used in the shortened constructive form אֶל ); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or among; often in general, to
Traditional renderings: about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, × hath, in(-to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אֶל:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

5,513 total
  1. Numbers 32:17אֶל־ · into
    But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
  2. Numbers 32:18אֶל־ · to
    We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance.
  3. Numbers 32:19אֵלֵ֔ינוּ · has come to us
    Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”
  4. Numbers 32:20אֲלֵיהֶם֙
    Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,
  5. Numbers 32:25אֶל־ · to
    The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “Your servants will do just as our lord commands.
  6. Numbers 32:29אֲלֵהֶ֗ם · to them
    And Moses said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.
  7. Numbers 32:31אֶל־ · to
    The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.
  8. Numbers 33:38אֶל־
    At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.
  9. Numbers 33:50אֶל־ · to
    On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,
  10. Numbers 33:51אֶל־ · to; אֲלֵהֶ֑ם · them; אֶל־ · into
    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
  11. Numbers 33:54אֶל֩
    And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.
  12. Numbers 34:1אֶל־ · to
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  13. Numbers 34:2אֲלֵהֶ֔ם · to them; אֶל־
    “Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:
  14. Numbers 34:16אֶל־ · to
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  15. Numbers 35:1אֶל־ · to
    Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:
  16. Numbers 35:9אֶל־ · to
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  17. Numbers 35:10אֶל־ · to; אֲלֵהֶ֑ם
    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
  18. Numbers 35:25אֶל־ · to
    The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
  19. Numbers 35:28אֶל־ · to
    …because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.
  20. Numbers 35:32אֶל־ · to
    Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
  21. Numbers 36:7אֶל־ · to
    No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
  22. Numbers 36:13אֶל־
    These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
  23. Deuteronomy 1:1אֶל־ · to
    These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
  24. Deuteronomy 1:3אֶל־ · to; אֲלֵהֶֽם׃ · concerning them
    In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
  25. Deuteronomy 1:6אֵלֵ֖ינוּ · to us
    The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
  26. Deuteronomy 1:7וְאֶל־ · [go] to
    Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.
  27. Deuteronomy 1:9אֲלֵכֶ֔ם · to you
    At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.
  28. Deuteronomy 1:17אֵלַ֖י · to me
    Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”
  29. Deuteronomy 1:20אֲלֵכֶ֑ם
    I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
  30. Deuteronomy 1:22אֵלַי֮ · me; אֲלֵיהֶֽן׃
    Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”
  31. Deuteronomy 1:25אֵלֵ֑ינוּ · to us
    They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
  32. Deuteronomy 1:29אֲלֵכֶ֑ם · to you
    So I said to you: “Do not be terrified or afraid of them!
  33. Deuteronomy 1:41אֵלַ֗י
    “We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.
  34. Deuteronomy 1:42אֵלַ֗י · to me
    But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.”
  35. Deuteronomy 1:43אֲלֵיכֶ֖ם · to you
    So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country.
  36. Deuteronomy 1:45אֲלֵיכֶֽם׃ · to you
    And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.
  37. Deuteronomy 2:1אֵלָ֑י
    Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.
  38. Deuteronomy 2:2אֵלַ֥י · to me
    At this time the LORD said to me,
  39. Deuteronomy 2:9אֵלַ֗י · to me; אֶל־ · Do not
    Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
  40. Deuteronomy 2:17אֵלַ֥י · to me
    …the LORD said to me,
  41. Deuteronomy 2:26אֶל־ · to
    So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,
  42. Deuteronomy 2:29אֶל־ · into
    …just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
  43. Deuteronomy 2:31אֵלַ֔י · to me
    Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”