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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 31:29אֵלַ֣י · to me
    I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
  2. Genesis 31:35אֶל־ · to
    Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched but could not find the household idols.
  3. Genesis 31:39אֵלֶ֔יךָ · you
    I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.
  4. Genesis 31:43אֶֽל־
    But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
  5. Genesis 31:52אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ · to harm you; אֵלַ֜י
    This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.
  6. Genesis 32:3אֶל־ · to
    Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
  7. Genesis 32:6אֶֽל־ · to; אֶל־ · to; אֶל־
    When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”
  8. Genesis 32:8אֶל־
    He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”
  9. Genesis 32:9אֵלַ֗י · me
    Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
  10. Genesis 32:16אֶל־
    He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”
  11. Genesis 32:19אֶל־ · to
    He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.
  12. Genesis 32:27אֵלָ֖יו
    “What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
  13. Genesis 32:30אֶל־ · to
    So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
  14. Genesis 33:13אֵלָ֗יו
    But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
  15. Genesis 33:14אֶל־ · to
    Please let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a comfortable pace for the livestock and children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
  16. Genesis 34:4אֶל־
    So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
  17. Genesis 34:6אֶֽל־
    Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.
  18. Genesis 34:11אֶל־ · to; וְאֶל־; אֵלַ֖י
    Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.
  19. Genesis 34:12אֵלָ֑י
    Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
  20. Genesis 34:14אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם
    “We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
  21. Genesis 34:17אֵלֵ֖ינוּ
    But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”
  22. Genesis 34:20אֶל־ · to; אֶל־
    So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
  23. Genesis 34:24אֶל־ · to; וְאֶל־
    All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.
  24. Genesis 34:30אֶל־ · to; וְאֶל־
    Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
  25. Genesis 35:1אֶֽל־ · to; אֵלֶ֔יךָ · to
    Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
  26. Genesis 35:2אֶל־; וְאֶ֖ל
    So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
  27. Genesis 35:4אֶֽל־
    So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
  28. Genesis 35:7אֵלָיו֙ · to [Jacob]
    There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
  29. Genesis 35:9אֶֽל־ · to
    After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
  30. Genesis 35:27אֶל־ · to
    Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
  31. Genesis 35:29אֶל־ · to
    Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
  32. Genesis 36:6אֶל־ · to
    Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.
  33. Genesis 37:2אֶל־ · about them
    This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
  34. Genesis 37:6אֲלֵיהֶ֑ם · to them
    He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
  35. Genesis 37:10אֶל־; וְאֶל־
    He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
  36. Genesis 37:13אֶל־ · to; אֲלֵיהֶ֑ם · you to them
    Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
  37. Genesis 37:18אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם
    Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.
  38. Genesis 37:19אֶל־ · to
    “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.