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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. Song of Solomon 8:2אֶל־ · to
    I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
  2. Isaiah 1:23אֲלֵיהֶֽם׃פ · before them
    Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
  3. Isaiah 2:2אֵלָ֖יו · to it
    In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
  4. Isaiah 2:3אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · to
    And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  5. Isaiah 2:4אֶל־ · against
    Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
  6. Isaiah 3:8אֶל־ · against
    For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
  7. Isaiah 6:3אֶל־ · to
    And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.”
  8. Isaiah 6:6אֵלַ֗י · to me
    Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
  9. Isaiah 7:3אֶֽל־ · to; אֶל־ · at; אֶל־ · on
    Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,
  10. Isaiah 7:4אֵ֠לָיו · to him
    …and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.
  11. Isaiah 7:6אֵלֵ֑ינוּ · among ourselves
    ‘Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.’
  12. Isaiah 7:10אֶל־ · to
    Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying,
  13. Isaiah 8:1אֵלַ֔י · to me
    Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
  14. Isaiah 8:3אֶל־ · with; אֵלַ֔י · to me
    And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
  15. Isaiah 8:5אֵלַ֛י · to
    And the LORD spoke to me further:
  16. Isaiah 8:11אֵלַ֖י · to me
    For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:
  17. Isaiah 8:19אֲלֵיכֶ֗ם · you; אֶל־; וְאֶל־; אֶל־; אֶל־
    When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
  18. Isaiah 8:22וְאֶל־ · to
    Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
  19. Isaiah 9:19אֶל־
    By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.
  20. Isaiah 10:21אֶל־ · to
    A remnant will return—a remnant of Jacob—to the Mighty God.
  21. Isaiah 11:10אֵלָ֖יו
    On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
  22. Isaiah 13:8אֶל־ · They will look at
    Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.
  23. Isaiah 13:14אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · to
    Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.
  24. Isaiah 14:2אֶל־ · it to
    The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
  25. Isaiah 14:10אֵלֶ֑יךָ · to you; אֵלֵ֥ינוּ · we are
    They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”
  26. Isaiah 14:15אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · to
    But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
  27. Isaiah 14:16אֵלֶ֣יךָ; אֵלֶ֖יךָ · your fate
    Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
  28. Isaiah 14:19אֶל־ · into
    But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
  29. Isaiah 16:1אֶל־ · to
    Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.
  30. Isaiah 16:12אֶל־
    When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
  31. Isaiah 16:13אֶל־ · concerning
    This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.
  32. Isaiah 17:7אֶל־ · to
    In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
  33. Isaiah 17:8אֶל־ · to
    They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.
  34. Isaiah 18:2אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · to
    …which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
  35. Isaiah 18:4אֵלַ֔י · me
    For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
  36. Isaiah 18:7אֶל־ · to
    At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
  37. Isaiah 19:3אֶל־ · to
    Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.