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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. Ezekiel 3:7אֵלֶ֔יךָ · to you; אֵלָ֑י · to Me
    But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.
  2. Ezekiel 3:10אֵלָ֑י; אֵלֶ֔יךָ · to you
    “Son of man,” He added, “listen carefully to all the words I speak to you, and take them to heart.
  3. Ezekiel 3:11אֶל־ · to; אֶל־ · to them; אֲלֵיהֶם֙; אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם · them
    Go to your people, the exiles; speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”
  4. Ezekiel 3:13אֶל־ · against
    It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, a great rumbling sound.
  5. Ezekiel 3:15אֶל־ · to; אֶֽל־ · by
    I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.
  6. Ezekiel 3:16אֵלַ֥י · to me
    At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  7. Ezekiel 3:22אֵלַ֗י · to me; אֶל־ · to
    And there the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak with you.”
  8. Ezekiel 3:23אֶל־ · to
    So I got up and went out to the plain, and behold, the glory of the LORD was present there, like the glory I had seen by the River Kebar, and I fell facedown.
  9. Ezekiel 3:24אֵלַ֔י
    Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.
  10. Ezekiel 3:26אֶל־ · to
    I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.
  11. Ezekiel 3:27אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם · them
    But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you are to tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ Whoever listens, let him listen; and whoever refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.
  12. Ezekiel 4:3אֵלֶ֜יהָ · toward it
    Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
  13. Ezekiel 4:7וְאֶל־ · toward
    You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.
  14. Ezekiel 4:8אֶל־ · to
    Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.
  15. Ezekiel 4:15אֵלַ֔י
    “Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”
  16. Ezekiel 4:16אֵלַ֗י · me
    Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
  17. Ezekiel 5:4אֶל־ · into; אֶל־ · to
    Again, take a few of these, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.
  18. Ezekiel 6:1אֵלַ֥י · to me
    And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  19. Ezekiel 6:2אֶל־ · against; אֲלֵיהֶֽם׃ · against them
    “Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
  20. Ezekiel 6:9אֶל־ · for
    Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
  21. Ezekiel 6:10אֶל־ · in
    And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.
  22. Ezekiel 6:11אֶ֛ל · because of
    This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.
  23. Ezekiel 6:13אֶל֩ · on
    Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
  24. Ezekiel 7:1אֵלַ֥י · to me
    And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  25. Ezekiel 7:6אֵלָ֑יִךְ · against you
    The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!
  26. Ezekiel 7:7אֵלֶ֖יךָ · to you
    Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy.
  27. Ezekiel 7:12אֶל־ · is upon
    The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.
  28. Ezekiel 7:13אֶל־; אֶל־ · concerning
    The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life.
  29. Ezekiel 7:14אֶל־ · is upon
    They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.
  30. Ezekiel 7:16אֶל־ · and live in
    The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.
  31. Ezekiel 7:18וְאֶ֤ל
    They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.
  32. Ezekiel 7:26אֶל־ · after
    Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
  33. Ezekiel 8:3אֶל־ · to
    He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
  34. Ezekiel 8:5אֵלַ֔י · to me
    “Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.
  35. Ezekiel 8:6אֵלַ֔י · to me
    “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.”
  36. Ezekiel 8:7אֶל־ · to
    Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.
  37. Ezekiel 8:8אֵלַ֔י · me
    “Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway.
  38. Ezekiel 8:9אֵלָ֑י · to me
    Then He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations they are committing here.”
  39. Ezekiel 8:12אֵלַי֮ · to me
    “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
  40. Ezekiel 8:13אֵלָ֑י · me
    Again, He told me, “You will see them committing even greater abominations.”