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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. Deuteronomy 2:37אֶל־
    But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.
  2. Deuteronomy 3:2אֵלַי֙ · to me
    But the LORD said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
  3. Deuteronomy 3:23אֶל־
    At that time I also pleaded with the LORD:
  4. Deuteronomy 3:26אֵלָ֑י · to me; אֵלַי֙ · to me; אֵלַ֛י · to
    But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.
  5. Deuteronomy 4:1אֶל־; וְאֶל־
    Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
  6. Deuteronomy 4:7אֵלָ֑יו · to them; אֵלָֽיו׃ · on Him
    For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?
  7. Deuteronomy 4:10אֵלַ֗י · to me
    The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
  8. Deuteronomy 4:12אֲלֵיכֶ֖ם · to you
    And the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of the words but saw no form; there was only a voice.
  9. Deuteronomy 4:15אֲלֵיכֶ֛ם · to you
    So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful
  10. Deuteronomy 4:21אֶל־
    The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  11. Deuteronomy 4:39אֶל־ · to
    Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.
  12. Deuteronomy 4:42אֶל־ · to
    …to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
  13. Deuteronomy 4:45אֶל־ · to
    These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,
  14. Deuteronomy 5:1אֶל־ · to them; אֲלֵהֶ֗ם
    Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
  15. Deuteronomy 5:22אֶל־ · to; אֵלָֽי׃ · to me
    The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
  16. Deuteronomy 5:23אֵלַ֔י · me
    And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,
  17. Deuteronomy 5:27אֵלֵ֗ינוּ; אֵלֶ֖יךָ
    Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
  18. Deuteronomy 5:28אֵלָ֑י · to me; אֵלַ֗י · to me; אֵלֶ֔יךָ · to you
    And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.
  19. Deuteronomy 5:31אֵלֶ֗יךָ · to you
    But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
  20. Deuteronomy 6:10אֶל־ · you into
    And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
  21. Deuteronomy 7:1אֶל־ · you into
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
  22. Deuteronomy 7:10אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · to
    But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.
  23. Deuteronomy 7:26אֶל־ · into
    And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.
  24. Deuteronomy 8:7אֶל־ · you into
    For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
  25. Deuteronomy 9:10אֵלַ֗י
    Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.
  26. Deuteronomy 9:11אֵלַ֗י
    And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
  27. Deuteronomy 9:12אֵלַ֗י · to me
    And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
  28. Deuteronomy 9:13אֵלַ֣י · to me
    The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
  29. Deuteronomy 9:19אֵלַ֔י · to me
    For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.
  30. Deuteronomy 9:21אֶל־ · into
    And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
  31. Deuteronomy 9:26אֶל־ · to
    And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
  32. Deuteronomy 9:27אֶל־; וְאֶל־; וְאֶל־
    Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
  33. Deuteronomy 9:28אֶל־ · into
    Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
  34. Deuteronomy 10:1אֵלַ֗י · to me; אֵלַ֖י · to Me
    At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
  35. Deuteronomy 10:4אֲלֵיכֶ֥ם · to; אֵלָֽי׃ · to me
    And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,
  36. Deuteronomy 10:10אֵלַ֗י · to me
    I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.