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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. Judges 14:3אֶל־
    But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
  2. Judges 14:9אֶל־ · some honey into; אֶל־ · to; וְאֶל־
    So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
  3. Judges 14:10אֶל־ · to
    Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
  4. Judges 15:1אֶל־ · to
    Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
  5. Judges 15:4אֶל־
    Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.
  6. Judges 15:11אֶל־ · to
    In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
  7. Judges 15:18אֶל־ · to
    And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
  8. Judges 16:1אֵלֶֽיהָ׃ · with her
    One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
  9. Judges 16:3אֶל־ · to
    But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
  10. Judges 16:5אֵלֶ֜יהָ · to her
    The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
  11. Judges 16:6אֶל־ · to
    So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”
  12. Judges 16:7אֵלֶ֙יהָ֙
    Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”
  13. Judges 16:9אֵלָ֔יו
    While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.
  14. Judges 16:10אֶל־ · to; אֵלַ֖י
    Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”
  15. Judges 16:11אֵלֶ֔יהָ
    He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”
  16. Judges 16:12אֵלָיו֙
    So Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.
  17. Judges 16:13אֶל־ · to; אֵלַי֙; אֵלֶ֔יהָ
    Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”
  18. Judges 16:14אֵלָ֔יו · to him
    So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.
  19. Judges 16:15אֵלָ֗יו
    “How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”
  20. Judges 16:18אֵלֶ֙יהָ֙ · to her
    When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: “Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.
  21. Judges 16:26אֶל־ · to
    Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”
  22. Judges 16:28אֶל־ · to
    Then Samson called out to the LORD: “O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”
  23. Judges 17:9אֵלָ֜יו
    “Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”
  24. Judges 18:2אֲלֵהֶ֔ם
    So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.
  25. Judges 18:4אֲלֵהֶ֔ם
    “Micah has done this and that for me,” he replied, “and he has hired me to be his priest.”
  26. Judges 18:8אֶל־ · to
    When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”
  27. Judges 18:10אֶל־ · to
    When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
  28. Judges 18:14אֶל־ · to
    Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”
  29. Judges 18:15אֶל־ · to
    So they turned aside there and went to the home of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and greeted him.
  30. Judges 18:18אֲלֵיהֶם֙ · to them
    When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
  31. Judges 18:23אֶל־ · after them
    When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”
  32. Judges 18:24אֵלַ֖י · to me
    He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”
  33. Judges 18:25אֵלָיו֙ · to him
    The Danites said to him, “Do not raise your voice against us, or angry men will attack you, and you and your family will lose your lives.”
  34. Judges 18:26אֶל־
    So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.
  35. Judges 19:2אֶל־ · to return to; אֶל־ · in
    But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,
  36. Judges 19:5אֶל־ · to
    On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”
  37. Judges 19:6אֶל־ · to
    So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and let your heart be merry.”
  38. Judges 19:11אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · at
    When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Please, let us stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night here.”
  39. Judges 19:12אֵלָיו֙; אֶל־ · to
    But his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”
  40. Judges 19:18אֵלָ֗יו
    The Levite replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me into his home,
  41. Judges 19:22אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · to
    While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”