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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. Jeremiah 29:12אֲלֵיכֶֽם׃ · to you
    Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
  2. Jeremiah 29:14אֶל־ · you to
    I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
  3. Jeremiah 29:16אֶל־ · about; אֶל־ · on; וְאֶל־ · and
    …this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David’s throne and all the people who remain in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile—
  4. Jeremiah 29:19אֶל־ · to; אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם · to
    I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”
  5. Jeremiah 29:21אֶל־ · about; וְאֶל־ · and
    This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.
  6. Jeremiah 29:24וְאֶל־
    You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that
  7. Jeremiah 29:25אֶל־ · to; וְאֶל־ · to; וְאֶ֥ל · and to
    …this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
  8. Jeremiah 29:26אֶל־ · in; וְאֶל־
    ‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
  9. Jeremiah 29:28אֵלֵ֛ינוּ · to us
    For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”
  10. Jeremiah 29:30אֶֽל־ · to
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
  11. Jeremiah 29:31אֶל־ · concerning
    “Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
  12. Jeremiah 30:1אֶֽל־ · to
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
  13. Jeremiah 30:2אֵלֶ֖יךָ · to you; אֶל־ · in
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
  14. Jeremiah 30:3אֶל־ · to
    For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
  15. Jeremiah 30:4אֶל־ · concerning; וְאֶל־
    These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah.
  16. Jeremiah 30:21אֵלָ֑י · Me; אֵלַ֖י · Me
    Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.
  17. Jeremiah 31:6אֶל־ · to
    For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”
  18. Jeremiah 31:9אֶל־ · beside
    They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
  19. Jeremiah 31:12אֶל־ · over
    They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.
  20. Jeremiah 31:21אֶל־ · to
    “Set up the road markers, put up the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.
  21. Jeremiah 32:1אֶֽל־ · to
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
  22. Jeremiah 32:6אֵלַ֥י · to me
    Jeremiah replied, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:
  23. Jeremiah 32:7אֵלֶ֖יךָ · to
    Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’
  24. Jeremiah 32:8אֵ֠לַי · to me; אֶל־; אֵלַ֡י
    Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
  25. Jeremiah 32:12אֶל־ · to
    …and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
  26. Jeremiah 32:16אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · to
    After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD:
  27. Jeremiah 32:18אֶל־ · into
    You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,
  28. Jeremiah 32:25אֵלַי֙ · to me
    Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”
  29. Jeremiah 32:26אֶֽל־ · to
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
  30. Jeremiah 32:33אֵלַ֛י · to Me
    They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.
  31. Jeremiah 32:36אֶל־ · about
    Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
  32. Jeremiah 32:37אֶל־ · to
    I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.
  33. Jeremiah 32:42אֶל־ · on
    For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
  34. Jeremiah 33:1אֶֽל־ · to
    While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:
  35. Jeremiah 33:3אֵלַ֖י · to Me
    Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
  36. Jeremiah 33:4אֶל־ · for defense against; וְאֶל־
    For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword: