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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 Kings 19:2אֶל־ · to
    And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz
  2. 2 Kings 19:3אֵלָ֗יו · him
    …to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
  3. 2 Kings 19:5אֶל־ · to
    So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,
  4. 2 Kings 19:6אֶל־
    …who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
  5. 2 Kings 19:9אֶל־ · about; אֶל־ · to
    Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “Look, he has set out to fight against you.” So Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
  6. 2 Kings 19:10אֶל־ · to
    “Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
  7. 2 Kings 19:20אֶל־ · a message to; אֵלַ֛י; אֶל־ · concerning
    Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.
  8. 2 Kings 19:27אֵלָֽי׃ · against Me
    But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
  9. 2 Kings 19:28אֵלַ֔י · against Me
    Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
  10. 2 Kings 19:32אֶל־ · about; אֶל־
    So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
  11. 2 Kings 19:33וְאֶל־ · enter
    He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city, declares the LORD.
  12. 2 Kings 19:34אֶל־
    I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
  13. 2 Kings 20:1אֵ֠לָיו · to him; אֵלָ֜יו
    In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
  14. 2 Kings 20:2אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · to
    Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,
  15. 2 Kings 20:4אֵלָ֖יו · to him
    Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
  16. 2 Kings 20:5אֶל־
    “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
  17. 2 Kings 20:8אֶֽל־
    Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
  18. 2 Kings 20:11אֶל־ · to
    So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.
  19. 2 Kings 20:12אֶל־ · to
    At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness.
  20. 2 Kings 20:14אֶל־ · to; אֵלָ֜יו · to you; אֵלֶ֔יךָ
    Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”
  21. 2 Kings 20:16אֶל־ · to
    Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:
  22. 2 Kings 20:19אֶֽל־ · to
    But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”
  23. 2 Kings 21:7אֶל־ · to; וְאֶל־
    Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
  24. 2 Kings 22:4אֶל־ · to
    “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
  25. 2 Kings 22:8אֶל־ · to
    Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
  26. 2 Kings 22:9אֶל־ · to
    And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
  27. 2 Kings 22:14אֶל־ · to; אֵלֶֽיהָ׃
    So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
  28. 2 Kings 22:15אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם · to them; אֵלָֽי׃
    And Huldah said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Tell the man who sent you
  29. 2 Kings 22:16אֶל־ · on
    …that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,
  30. 2 Kings 22:18וְאֶל־ · But as for; אֵלָ֑יו
    But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for the words that you heard,
  31. 2 Kings 22:20אֶל־ · to
    ‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
  32. 2 Kings 23:1אֵלָ֔יו
    Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
  33. 2 Kings 23:6אֶל־ · to
    He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
  34. 2 Kings 23:9אֶל־ · to
    Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
  35. 2 Kings 23:11אֶל־ · near
    And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up the chariots of the sun.
  36. 2 Kings 23:12אֶל־ · into
    He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
  37. 2 Kings 23:17אֵלָ֜יו
    Then the king asked, “What is this monument I see?” And the men of the city replied, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
  38. 2 Kings 23:25אֶל־ · to
    Neither before nor after Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.