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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. 2 Samuel 10:9אֵלָיו֙
    When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.
  2. 2 Samuel 11:4אֵלָיו֙ · to him; אֶל־
    Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
  3. 2 Samuel 11:6אֶל־ · to; אֵלַ֔י · me; אֶל־ · to
    At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
  4. 2 Samuel 11:7אֵלָ֑יו · to him
    When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing and how the war was going.
  5. 2 Samuel 11:9אֶל־ · to
    But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.
  6. 2 Samuel 11:10אֶל־; אֶל־; אֶל־
    And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
  7. 2 Samuel 11:11אֶל־; אֶל־ · to
    Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
  8. 2 Samuel 11:12אֶל־ · to
    “Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
  9. 2 Samuel 11:13וְאֶל־
    Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.
  10. 2 Samuel 11:14אֶל־ · to
    The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
  11. 2 Samuel 11:15אֶל־ · at
    In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
  12. 2 Samuel 11:16אֶל־; אֶל־ · to
    So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers were.
  13. 2 Samuel 11:19אֶל־
    …and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king a full account of the battle,
  14. 2 Samuel 11:20אֶל־ · to
    …if the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
  15. 2 Samuel 11:21אֶל־ · to
    Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
  16. 2 Samuel 11:23אֶל־ · to; אֵלֵ֖ינוּ · against us
    The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
  17. 2 Samuel 11:24אֶל־ · at
    Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”
  18. 2 Samuel 11:25אֶל־; אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · against
    Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
  19. 2 Samuel 11:27אֶל־ · to
    And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  20. 2 Samuel 12:1אֶל־ · to; אֵלָ֗יו
    Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
  21. 2 Samuel 12:4אֵלָֽיו׃
    Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
  22. 2 Samuel 12:5אֶל־ · to
    David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
  23. 2 Samuel 12:7אֶל־ · to
    Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
  24. 2 Samuel 12:13אֶל־ · to; אֶל־
    Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
  25. 2 Samuel 12:15אֶל־
    After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
  26. 2 Samuel 12:18אֵלָיו֙ · to him; אֵלָ֛יו · him
    On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
  27. 2 Samuel 12:19אֶל־
    When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.
  28. 2 Samuel 12:20אֶל־ · to
    Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.
  29. 2 Samuel 12:21אֵלָ֔יו
    “What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
  30. 2 Samuel 12:23אֵלָ֔יו · to him; אֵלָֽי׃ · to me
    But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
  31. 2 Samuel 12:24אֵלֶ֖יהָ · to her
    Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
  32. 2 Samuel 12:27אֶל־ · to
    Then Joab sent messengers to David to say, “I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.
  33. 2 Samuel 13:5אֵלָ֡יו · to him
    Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
  34. 2 Samuel 13:6אֶל־
    So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
  35. 2 Samuel 13:7אֶל־ · word to
    Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
  36. 2 Samuel 13:10אֶל־ · to
    Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.