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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 19:23אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם; אֲלֵהֶ֔ם · to them
    The owner of the house went out and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Do not commit this outrage.
  2. Judges 19:25אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם · to them
    But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
  3. Judges 19:28אֵלֶ֛יהָ
    “Get up,” he told her. “Let us go.” But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.
  4. Judges 19:29אֶל־
    When he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.
  5. Judges 20:1אֶל־ · before
    Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.
  6. Judges 20:11אֶל־ · against
    So all the men of Israel gathered as one man, united against the city.
  7. Judges 20:16אֶל־ · at
    Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
  8. Judges 20:20אֶל־
    And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at Gibeah.
  9. Judges 20:23אֵלָֽיו׃פ · against them
    They went up and wept before the LORD until evening, inquiring of Him, “Should we again draw near for battle against our brothers the Benjamites?” And the LORD answered, “Go up against them.”
  10. Judges 20:24אֶל־ · against
    On the second day the Israelites advanced against the Benjamites.
  11. Judges 20:29אֶל־
    So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.
  12. Judges 20:30אֶל־ · against; אֶל־ · against
    On the third day the Israelites went up against the Benjamites and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as they had done before.
  13. Judges 20:32אֶל־ · onto
    “We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”
  14. Judges 20:36אֶל־ · on; אֶל־ · against
    Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
  15. Judges 20:37אֶל־ · against
    The men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.
  16. Judges 20:42אֶל־ · toward
    So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
  17. Judges 20:45אֶל־ · to
    Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
  18. Judges 20:47אֶל־ · to
    But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
  19. Judges 20:48אֶל־ · against
    And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.
  20. Judges 21:5אֶל־ · before; אֶל־ · before
    The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.
  21. Judges 21:6אֶל־ · for
    And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
  22. Judges 21:8אֶל־ · before; אֶל־ · to; אֶל־
    So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
  23. Judges 21:12אֶל־ · to
    So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
  24. Judges 21:13אֶל־ · to
    Then the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.
  25. Judges 21:22אֵלֵ֗ינוּ · to us; אֲלֵיהֶם֙
    When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
  26. Judges 21:23אֶל־ · to
    The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
  27. Ruth 1:7אֶל־ · to
    Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.
  28. Ruth 1:15אֶל־ · to; וְאֶל־ · and
    “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
  29. Ruth 1:16אֶל־ · wherever
    But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
  30. Ruth 1:18אֵלֶֽיהָ׃
    When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.
  31. Ruth 1:20אֲלֵיהֶ֔ן
    “Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
  32. Ruth 2:2אֶֽל־
    And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.
  33. Ruth 2:8אֶל־ · to
    Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.
  34. Ruth 2:9אֶל־
    Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”
  35. Ruth 2:10אֵלָ֗יו · to him
    At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”
  36. Ruth 2:11אֶל־ · to
    Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
  37. Ruth 2:21אֵלַ֗י
    Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”
  38. Ruth 2:22אֶל־ · to
    And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his young women, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”
  39. Ruth 3:5אֵלֶ֑יהָ
    “I will do everything you say,” Ruth answered.
  40. Ruth 3:16אֶל־ · to
    When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her.
  41. Ruth 3:17אֶל־ · to
    And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
  42. Ruth 4:11אֶל־
    “We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.