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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. Nehemiah 9:16אֶל־
    But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
  2. Nehemiah 9:23אֶל־ · to
    You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
  3. Nehemiah 9:26אֵלֶ֑יךָ · to You
    But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
  4. Nehemiah 9:27אֵלֶ֔יךָ · to You
    So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.
  5. Nehemiah 9:29אֶל־ · to
    You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They turned a stubborn shoulder; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.
  6. Nehemiah 9:34אֶל־ · to
    Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.
  7. Nehemiah 10:28אֶל־ · to
    “The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand,
  8. Nehemiah 10:37אֶל־ · at
    Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.
  9. Nehemiah 10:38אֶל־ · to
    A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.
  10. Nehemiah 10:39אֶל־ · to
    For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”
  11. Nehemiah 11:25וְאֶל־ · As for
    As for the villages with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba, Dibon, Jekabzeel, and their villages;
  12. Nehemiah 13:6אֶל־ · to
    While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king
  13. Nehemiah 13:21אֲלֵיהֶם֙
    …but I warned them, “Why are you camping in front of the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they did not return on the Sabbath.
  14. Esther 1:14אֵלָ֗יו
    His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.
  15. Esther 1:22אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · to; וְאֶל־ · and to
    He sent letters to all the provinces of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be master of his own household.
  16. Esther 2:3אֶל־ · into; אֶל־ · Let them be placed; אֶל־ · at
    …and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.
  17. Esther 2:8אֶל־ · at; אֶל־ · under; אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · and placed under
    When the king’s command and edict had been proclaimed, many young women gathered at the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the care of Hegai, the custodian of the women.
  18. Esther 2:12אֶל־ · to
    In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.
  19. Esther 2:13אֶל־ · to
    When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.
  20. Esther 2:14אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · under; אֶל־ · to
    She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.
  21. Esther 2:15אֶל־ · to
    Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.
  22. Esther 2:16אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · in
    She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
  23. Esther 3:4אֵלָיו֙ · him; אֲלֵיהֶ֑ם
    Day after day they warned him, but he would not comply. So they reported it to Haman to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, since he had told them he was a Jew.
  24. Esther 3:9אֶל־ · into
    If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”
  25. Esther 3:12אֶ֣ל; וְֽאֶל־; וְאֶל־
    On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.
  26. Esther 3:13אֶל־ · to
    And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
  27. Esther 4:2אֶל־
    But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.
  28. Esther 4:6אֶֽל־ · to; אֶל־ · in
    So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the king’s gate,
  29. Esther 4:8אֶל־
    Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.
  30. Esther 4:10אֶֽל־ · to
    Then Esther spoke to Hathach and instructed him to tell Mordecai,
  31. Esther 4:11אֶל־; אֶל־ · in; אֶל־ · before
    “All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”
  32. Esther 4:13אֶל־ · to
    …he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.
  33. Esther 4:15אֶֽל־ · to
    Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:
  34. Esther 4:16אֶל־ · to
    “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”