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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. Genesis 27:18אֶל־ · to
    So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
  2. Genesis 27:19אֶל־ · to; אֵלָ֑י
    Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
  3. Genesis 27:20אֶל־
    But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.
  4. Genesis 27:21אֶֽל־ · to
    Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”
  5. Genesis 27:22אֶל־ · to
    So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
  6. Genesis 27:26אֵלָ֖יו · to him
    Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
  7. Genesis 27:38אֶל־ · to
    Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
  8. Genesis 27:39אֵלָ֑יו
    His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
  9. Genesis 27:42אֵלָ֔יו · him
    When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.
  10. Genesis 27:43אֶל־ · to
    So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
  11. Genesis 27:46אֶל־ · to
    Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
  12. Genesis 28:1אֶֽל־
    So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
  13. Genesis 28:5אֶל־ · to
    So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
  14. Genesis 28:7אֶל־; וְאֶל־
    …and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
  15. Genesis 28:9אֶל־ · to
    Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
  16. Genesis 28:15אֶל־ · to
    Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
  17. Genesis 28:21אֶל־ · to
    …so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.
  18. Genesis 29:13אֶל־ · to
    When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
  19. Genesis 29:21אֶל־ · to; אֵלֶֽיהָ׃ · her
    Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
  20. Genesis 29:23אֵלָ֑יו · to Jacob; אֵלֶֽיהָ׃ · her
    But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.
  21. Genesis 29:25אֶל־ · to
    When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
  22. Genesis 29:30אֶל־
    Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
  23. Genesis 29:34אֵלַ֔י · to me
    Once again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.
  24. Genesis 30:1אֶֽל־ · to
    When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
  25. Genesis 30:3אֵלֶ֑יהָ · her
    Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
  26. Genesis 30:4אֵלֶ֖יהָ · her
    So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
  27. Genesis 30:14אֶל־ · to; אֶל־
    Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
  28. Genesis 30:16אֵלַ֣י · with me
    When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
  29. Genesis 30:17אֶל־ · to
    And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.
  30. Genesis 30:22אֵלֶ֙יהָ֙ · to her
    Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
  31. Genesis 30:25אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · to
    Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
  32. Genesis 30:27אֵלָיו֙
    But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
  33. Genesis 30:29אֵלָ֔יו
    Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.
  34. Genesis 30:39אֶל־ · in front of
    …they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
  35. Genesis 30:40אֶל־
    Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
  36. Genesis 31:3אֶֽל־ · to; אֶל־ · to
    Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
  37. Genesis 31:4אֶל־
    So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,
  38. Genesis 31:5אֵלַ֖י · his attitude toward me
    …and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.
  39. Genesis 31:11אֵלַ֜י · to me
    In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’
  40. Genesis 31:13אֶל־ · to
    I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up, leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”
  41. Genesis 31:16אֵלֶ֖יךָ · you
    Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
  42. Genesis 31:18אֶל־ · to
    …and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
  43. Genesis 31:24אֶל־ · to
    But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”