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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. 1 Samuel 17:49אֶל־ · on
    Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
  2. 1 Samuel 17:51אֶל־ · over him
    David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him, and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.
  3. 1 Samuel 17:55אֶל־ · to
    As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
  4. 1 Samuel 17:58אֵלָיו֙
    “Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.
  5. 1 Samuel 18:1אֶל־ · with
    After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
  6. 1 Samuel 18:10אֶל־ · upon
    The next day a spirit of distress sent from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied inside the house while David played the harp as usual. Now Saul was holding a spear,
  7. 1 Samuel 18:17אֶל־ · to
    Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
  8. 1 Samuel 18:18אֶל־ · to
    And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”
  9. 1 Samuel 18:21אֶל־ · to
    “I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
  10. 1 Samuel 18:22אֶל־ · to
    Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”
  11. 1 Samuel 19:1אֶל־; וְאֶל־
    Then Saul ordered his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Jonathan delighted greatly in David,
  12. 1 Samuel 19:3אֶל־
    I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, so I can ask about you. And if I find out anything, I will tell you.”
  13. 1 Samuel 19:4אֶל־ · to; אֵ֠לָיו · to him
    Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.
  14. 1 Samuel 19:7אֶל־ · to
    So Jonathan summoned David and told him all these things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and David was with Saul as before.
  15. 1 Samuel 19:9אֶל־ · upon
    But as Saul was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, a spirit of distress from the LORD came upon him. While David was playing the harp,
  16. 1 Samuel 19:11אֶל־ · to
    Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
  17. 1 Samuel 19:13אֶל־ · in
    Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
  18. 1 Samuel 19:15אֵלַ֖י · up to me
    But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”
  19. 1 Samuel 19:16אֶל־ · in
    And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the goat hair on its head.
  20. 1 Samuel 19:17אֶל־; אֶל־; אֵלַ֛י · to me
    And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away, and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”
  21. 1 Samuel 19:18אֶל־ · to
    So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.
  22. 1 Samuel 19:23אֶל־ · to
    So Saul went to Naioth in Ramah. But the Spirit of God came upon even Saul, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
  23. 1 Samuel 20:4אֶל־ · to
    Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”
  24. 1 Samuel 20:5אֶל־
    So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.
  25. 1 Samuel 20:10אֶל־
    Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
  26. 1 Samuel 20:11אֶל־
    “Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,
  27. 1 Samuel 20:12אֶל־; אֶל־ · toward; אֵלֶ֔יךָ · for you
    …and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?
  28. 1 Samuel 20:13אֶל־ · to
    But if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father.
  29. 1 Samuel 20:19אֶל־ · to
    When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.
  30. 1 Samuel 20:25אֶל־
    He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.
  31. 1 Samuel 20:27אֶל־ · to; אֶל־
    But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
  32. 1 Samuel 20:29אֶל־ · to
    …saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
  33. 1 Samuel 20:31אֵלַ֔י · to me
    For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”
  34. 1 Samuel 20:32אֵלָ֛יו
    “Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”
  35. 1 Samuel 20:34אֶל־ · of
    Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.
  36. 1 Samuel 20:38אֶל־ · to
    Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.
  37. 1 Samuel 20:40אֶל־ · to
    Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”
  38. 1 Samuel 21:1אֶל־ · to
    Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
  39. 1 Samuel 21:2אֵלַ֗י · me; אֶל־ · to meet me
    “The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission on which I am sending you. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.
  40. 1 Samuel 21:4אֶל־
    “There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
  41. 1 Samuel 21:10אֶל־ · to
    That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.
  42. 1 Samuel 21:11אֵלָ֔יו · to him
    But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”