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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. Isaiah 19:3וְאֶל־ · and; וְאֶל־; וְאֶל־ · and
    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.
  2. Isaiah 19:11אֶל־ · to
    The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
  3. Isaiah 19:17אֵלָ֖יו
    The land of Judah will bring terror to Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble over what the LORD of Hosts has planned against it.
  4. Isaiah 19:20אֶל־ · to
    It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them.
  5. Isaiah 21:6אֵלַ֖י · to me
    For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
  6. Isaiah 21:11אֵלַי֙ · to me
    This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”
  7. Isaiah 21:16אֵלָ֑י · to me
    For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
  8. Isaiah 22:5אֶל־ · to
    For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.
  9. Isaiah 22:8אֶל־ · to
    He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.
  10. Isaiah 22:11אֶל־ · to
    You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
  11. Isaiah 22:15אֶל־ · to
    This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:
  12. Isaiah 22:18אֶל־ · and sling you into
    …roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of your master.
  13. Isaiah 23:11אֶל־ · that
    The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.
  14. Isaiah 24:18אֶל־ · into
    Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
  15. Isaiah 28:11אֶל־ · to
    Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
  16. Isaiah 28:12אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם
    …to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.
  17. Isaiah 29:11אֶל־ · to
    And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
  18. Isaiah 29:22אֶל־ · of
    Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.
  19. Isaiah 30:29אֶל־ · to
    You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
  20. Isaiah 31:4אֵלַ֡י · to me
    For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
  21. Isaiah 32:6אֶל־ · about
    For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
  22. Isaiah 36:2אֶל־ · to
    And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
  23. Isaiah 36:3אֵלָ֛יו · to him
    Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.
  24. Isaiah 36:4אֲלֵיהֶם֙ · to them; אֶל־
    The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
  25. Isaiah 36:7אֵלַ֔י · to me; אֶל־ · in
    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?
  26. Isaiah 36:10אֵלַ֔י · to me; אֶל־ · against
    So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
  27. Isaiah 36:11אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · to; אֵלֵ֙ינוּ֙ · to us
    Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
  28. Isaiah 36:12הַאֶ֨ל · only to; וְאֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ · you and
    But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
  29. Isaiah 36:15אֶל־
    Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
  30. Isaiah 36:16אֶל־ · to; אֵלַ֔י · to me
    Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,
  31. Isaiah 36:17אֶל־ · to
    …until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
  32. Isaiah 36:22אֶל־ · to
    Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
  33. Isaiah 37:2אֶל־ · 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
  34. Isaiah 37:3אֵלָ֗יו · 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.
  35. Isaiah 37:5אֶל־ · to
    So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,
  36. Isaiah 37:6אֲלֵיהֶם֙; אֶל־
    …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.
  37. Isaiah 37:7אֶל־ · to
    Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”
  38. Isaiah 37:9אֶל־ · to
    Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “He has set out to fight against you.” On hearing this, Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
  39. Isaiah 37:10אֶל־ · 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.
  40. Isaiah 37:15אֶל־ · to
    And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: