אֶל
to
also: toward, unto fuller range ↓
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Preposition
- A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
- Particle
- A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
Grammatical forms
- Preposition 5,511 times (100%)
- Particle, Negative 3 times (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 5,514 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
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Nehemiah 48 verses
- Nehemiah 5:17 אֵלֵ֛י/נוּ prep + sfx pers 1cp Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were round about us.
- Nehemiah 6:2 אֵלַ֣/י prep + sfx pers 1cs that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
- Nehemiah 6:3 אֲלֵי/כֶֽם prep + sfx pers 2mp I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I can't come down: why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?
- Nehemiah 6:4 אֵלַ֛/י prep + sfx pers 1cs They sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
- Nehemiah 6:5 אֵלַ֨/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Then sent Sanballat his servant to me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
- Nehemiah 6:8 אֵלָי/ו֙ prep + sfx pers 3ms Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.
- Nehemiah 6:10 אֶל אֶל prep prep I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to kill you; yes, in the night will they come to kill you.
- Nehemiah 6:11 אֶל prep I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
- Nehemiah 6:17 אֲלֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 3mp Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and [the letters] of Tobiah came to them.
- Nehemiah 7:5 אֶל prep My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written therein:
- Nehemiah 8:1 אֶל prep All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
- Nehemiah 8:3 אֶל prep He read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were [attentive] to the book of the law.
- Nehemiah 8:13 אֶל אֶל prep prep On the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers' [houses] of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words of the law.
- Nehemiah 9:4 אֶל prep Then stood up on the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
- Nehemiah 9:16 אֶל prep But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and didn't listen to your commandments,
- Nehemiah 9:23 אֶל prep Their children also multiplied you as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you did say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
- Nehemiah 9:26 אֵלֶ֑י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
- Nehemiah 9:27 אֵלֶ֔י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.
- Nehemiah 9:29 אֶל prep and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
- Nehemiah 9:34 אֶל prep neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you did testify against them.
- Nehemiah 10:28 אֶל prep The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge, and understanding;
- Nehemiah 10:37 אֶל prep and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
- Nehemiah 10:38 אֶל prep The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure-house.
- Nehemiah 10:39 אֶל prep For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests who minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
- Nehemiah 11:25 וְ/אֶל conj + prep As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and the towns of it, and in Dibon and the towns of it, and in Jekabzeel and the villages of it,
- Nehemiah 13:6 אֶל prep But in all this [time] I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king: and after certain days asked I leave of the king,
- Nehemiah 13:21 אֲלֵי/הֶם֙ prep + sfx pers 3mp Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why lodge you about the wall? if you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.
Esther 38 verses
- Esther 1:14 אֵלָ֗י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom),
- Esther 1:22 אֶל אֶל וְ/אֶל prep prep conj + prep for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing of it, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and should speak according to the language of his people.
- Esther 2:3 אֶל אֶל אֶל prep prep prep and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, to the custody of Hegai the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them;
- Esther 2:8 אֶל אֶל אֶל אֶל prep prep prep prep So it happened, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
- Esther 2:12 אֶל prep Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after it had been done to her as prescribed for the women twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, [to wit], six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors and with the things for the purifying of the women),
- Esther 2:13 אֶל prep then in this wise came the maiden to the king: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women to the king's house.
- Esther 2:14 אֶל אֶל אֶל prep prep prep In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, who kept the concubines: she came in to the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and she were called by name.
- Esther 2:15 אֶל prep Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
- Esther 2:16 אֶל אֶל prep prep So Esther was taken to king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
- Esther 3:4 אֵלָי/ו֙ אֲלֵי/הֶ֑ם prep + sfx pers 3ms prep + sfx pers 3mp Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn't listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told those who he was a Jew.
- Esther 3:9 אֶל prep If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have the charge of the [king's] business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
- Esther 3:12 אֶ֣ל וְֽ/אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep conj + prep Then were the king's scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day of it; and there was written according to all that Haman commanded to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to the writing of it, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and it was sealed with the king's ring.
- Esther 3:13 אֶל prep Letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
- Esther 4:2 אֶל prep and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
- Esther 4:6 אֶֽל אֶל prep prep So Hathach went forth to Mordecai to the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate.
- Esther 4:8 אֶל prep Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to charge her that she should go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.
- Esther 4:10 אֶֽל prep Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai [saying]:
- Esther 4:11 אֶל אֶל אֶל prep prep prep All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.
- Esther 4:13 אֶל prep Then Mordecai bade them return answer to Esther, Don't think to yourself that you shall escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
- Esther 4:15 אֶֽל prep Then Esther bade them return answer to Mordecai,
- Esther 4:16 אֶל prep Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast you for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in to the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
- Esther 5:4 אֶל prep Esther said, If it seem good to the king, let the king and Haman come this day to the banquet that I have prepared for him.
- Esther 5:5 אֶל prep Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that it may be done as Esther has said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
- Esther 5:8 אֶל prep if I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.
- Esther 5:10 אֶל prep Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife.
- Esther 5:12 אֶל prep Haman said moreover, Yes, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow also am I invited by her together with the king.
- Esther 5:14 אֶל prep Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak you to the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go you in merrily with the king to the banquet. The thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
- Esther 6:5 אֵלָ֔י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms The king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman stands in the court. The king said, Let him come in.
- Esther 6:7 אֶל prep Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
- Esther 6:12 אֶל אֶל prep prep Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
- Esther 6:14 אֶל prep While they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
- Esther 7:7 אֶל אֵלָ֛י/ו prep prep + sfx pers 3ms The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine [and went] into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
- Esther 7:8 אֶל prep Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen on the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
- Esther 8:9 אֶל וְ/אֶ֣ל וְ/אֶ֨ל prep conj + prep conj + prep Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the three and twentieth [day] of it; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to the writing of it, and to every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
- Esther 9:20 אֶל prep Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,
- Esther 9:23 אֲלֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 3mp The Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them;
- Esther 9:26 אֲלֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 3mp Therefore they called these days Purim, after the name of Pur. Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,
- Esther 9:30 אֶל אֶל prep prep He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, [with] words of peace and truth,
Job 65 verses
- Job 1:7 אֶל prep Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
- Job 1:8 אֶל prep Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."
- Job 1:12 אֶל אֵלָ֔י/ו prep prep + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.
- Job 1:14 אֶל prep that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
- Job 2:2 אֶל prep Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
- Job 2:3 אֶל אֶל prep prep Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."
- Job 2:5 אֶל וְ/אֶל אֶל prep conj + prep prep But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."
- Job 2:6 אֶל prep Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."
- Job 2:10 אֵלֶ֗י/הָ prep + sfx pers 3fs But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
- Job 2:13 אֵלָי/ו֙ prep + sfx pers 3ms So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Job 3:22 אֱלֵי prep Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave?
- Job 4:2 אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
- Job 4:5 אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled.
- Job 4:12 וְ֭/אֵלַ/י conj + prep + sfx pers 1cs "Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it.
- Job 5:1 וְ/אֶל conj + prep "Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
- Job 5:5 וְ/אֶֽל conj + prep Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.
- Job 5:8 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep "But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause;
- Job 5:26 אֱלֵי prep You shall come to your grave in a full age, Like a shock of grain comes in its season.
- Job 7:17 אֵלָ֣י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms What is man, that you should magnify him, That you should set your mind on him,
- Job 8:5 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to the Almighty.
- Job 9:4 אֵ֝לָ֗י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
- Job 9:12 אֵ֝לָ֗י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
- Job 10:2 אֶל prep I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me.
- Job 10:9 וְֽ/אֶל conj + prep Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
- Job 10:21 אֶל prep Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
- Job 11:13 אֵלָ֣י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms "If you set your heart aright, Stretch out your hands toward him.
- Job 13:3 אֶל אֶל prep prep "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
- Job 13:15 אֶל prep Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
- Job 15:8 אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- Job 15:13 אֶל prep That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?
- Job 15:22 אֱלֵי prep He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.
- Job 15:25 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;
- Job 15:26 אֵלָ֣י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms He runs at him with a stiff neck, With the thick shields of his bucklers;
- Job 16:11 אֶ֣ל prep God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.
- Job 16:20 אֶל prep My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
- Job 18:18 אֶל prep He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
- Job 21:5 אֵלַ֥/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
- Job 21:19 אֵלָ֣י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
- Job 22:26 אֶל prep For then shall you delight yourself in the Almighty, And shall lift up your face to God.
- Job 22:27 אֵ֭לָי/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.
- Job 29:19 אֱלֵי prep My root is spread out to the waters, The dew lies all night on my branch;
- Job 29:24 אֲ֭לֵ/הֶם prep + sfx pers 3mp I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.
- Job 30:20 אֵ֭לֶי/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
- Job 30:22 אֶל prep You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
- Job 31:23 אֵ֭לַ/י prep + sfx pers 1cs For calamity from God is a terror to me, By reason of his majesty I can do nothing.
- Job 32:14 אֵלַ֣/י prep + sfx pers 1cs For he has not directed his words against me; Neither will I answer him with your speeches.
- Job 32:21 וְ/אֶל conj + prep Please don't let me respect any man's person, Neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
- Job 33:13 אֵלָ֣י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Why do you strive against him, Because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
- Job 33:26 אֶל prep He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, So that he sees his face with joy: He restores to man his righteousness.
- Job 34:14 אֵלָ֣י/ו אֵלָ֥י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms prep + sfx pers 3ms If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath;
- Job 34:18 אֶל prep Who says to a king, 'Vile!' Or to nobles, 'Wicked!'
- Job 34:23 אֶל prep For he doesn't need to consider a man further, That he should go before God in judgment.
- Job 34:31 אֶל prep "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
- Job 36:21 אֶל prep Take heed, don't regard iniquity; For this you have chosen rather than affliction.
- Job 38:20 אֶל prep That you should take it to the bound of it, That you should discern the paths to the house of it?
- Job 38:22 אֶל prep Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, Or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
- Job 38:41 אֶל prep Who provides for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry to God, And wander for lack of food?
- Job 39:11 אֵלָ֣י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?
- Job 40:23 אֶל prep Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
- Job 41:3 אֵ֭לֶי/ךָ אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms prep + sfx pers 2ms Will he make many petitions to you? Or will he speak soft words to you?
- Job 41:9 אֶל prep Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
- Job 42:7 אֶל אֶל אֵלַ֛/י prep prep prep + sfx pers 1cs It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
- Job 42:8 אֶל אֵלַ֛/י prep prep + sfx pers 1cs Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
- Job 42:9 אֲלֵי/הֶ֖ם prep + sfx pers 3mp So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
- Job 42:11 אֵ֠לָי/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
Psalms 127 verses
- Psalms 2:5 אֵלֵ֣י/מוֹ prep + sfx pers 3mp Then he will speak to them in his anger, And terrify them in his wrath:
- Psalms 2:7 אֶֽ֫ל אֵלַ֥/י prep prep + sfx pers 1cs I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.
- Psalms 3:4 אֶל prep I cry to Yahweh with my voice, And he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
- Psalms 4:3 אֵלָֽי/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.
- Psalms 4:5 אֶל prep Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
- Psalms 5:1 אֶֽל prep Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.
- Psalms 5:2 אֵ֝לֶ֗י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; For to you do I pray.
- Psalms 5:7 אֶל prep But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house: I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
- Psalms 7:6 אֵ֝לַ֗/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
- Psalms 18:6 וְ/אֶל conj + prep In my distress I called on Yahweh, And cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, My cry before him came into his ears.
- Psalms 22:5 אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
- Psalms 22:8 אֶל prep "He trusts in Yahweh; Let him deliver him; Let him rescue him, since he delights in him."
- Psalms 22:24 אֵלָ֣י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; But when he cried to him, he heard.
- Psalms 22:27 אֶל prep All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
- Psalms 25:1 אֵלֶ֥י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.
- Psalms 25:15 אֶל prep My eyes are ever on Yahweh, For he will pluck my feet out of the net.
- Psalms 25:16 אֵלַ֥/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Turn to me, and have mercy on me, For I am desolate and afflicted.
- Psalms 27:14 אֶל אֶל prep prep Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
- Psalms 28:1 אֵ֘לֶ֤י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; Lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
- Psalms 28:2 אֵלֶ֑י/ךָ אֶל prep + sfx pers 2ms prep Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
- Psalms 28:5 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep Because they don't regard the works of Yahweh, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.
- Psalms 30:2 אֵ֝לֶ֗י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh my God, I cried to you, And you have healed me.
- Psalms 30:8 אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ וְ/אֶל prep + sfx pers 2ms conj + prep I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh I made supplication:
- Psalms 30:9 אֶ֫ל prep "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
- Psalms 31:2 אֵלַ֨/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, A house of defense to save me.
- Psalms 31:6 אֶל prep I hate those who regard lying vanities, But I trust in Yahweh.
- Psalms 31:22 אֵלֶֽי/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
- Psalms 32:6 אֵלֶי/ךָ֮ אֵ֝לָ֗י/ו prep + sfx pers 2ms prep + sfx pers 3ms For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
- Psalms 32:9 אֵלֶֽי/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, Who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
- Psalms 33:14 אֶ֖ל prep From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
- Psalms 33:15 אֶל prep He who fashions all of their hearts; And he considers all of their works.
- Psalms 33:18 אֶל prep Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, On those who hope in his loving kindness;
- Psalms 34:5 אֵלָ֣י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
- Psalms 34:15 אֶל אֶל prep prep Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
- Psalms 36:2 אֵלָ֣י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms For he flatters himself in his own eyes, Too much to detect and hate his sin.
- Psalms 37:34 אֶל prep Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, And he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
- Psalms 39:12 אֶֽל prep "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A foreigner, as all my fathers were.
- Psalms 40:1 אֵ֝לַ֗/י prep + sfx pers 1cs I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
- Psalms 40:4 אֶל prep Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, And doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
- Psalms 40:5 אֵ֫לֵ֥י/נוּ אֵלֶ֗י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 1cp prep + sfx pers 2ms Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, And your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be set in order to you; If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
- Psalms 41:1 אֶל prep Blessed is he who considers the poor: Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
- Psalms 42:1 אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants after you, God.
- Psalms 42:3 אֵלַ֥/י prep + sfx pers 1cs My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
- Psalms 42:7 אֶל prep Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
- Psalms 42:10 אֵלַ֥/י prep + sfx pers 1cs As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
- Psalms 43:3 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
- Psalms 43:4 אֶל אֶל prep prep Then I will go to the altar of God, To God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
- Psalms 50:4 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep He calls to the heavens above, To the earth, that he may judge his people:
- Psalms 51:1 אֵ֭לָי/ו אֶל prep + sfx pers 3ms prep Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
- Psalms 51:13 אֵלֶ֥י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.
- Psalms 52:1 אֶל prep Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.
- Psalms 55:16 אֶל prep As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.
- Psalms 56:3 אֵלֶ֥י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
- Psalms 59:9 אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, For God is my high tower.
- Psalms 59:17 אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.
- Psalms 61:2 אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- Psalms 62:1 אֶל prep My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
- Psalms 66:17 אֵלָ֥י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.
- Psalms 69:16 אֵלָֽ/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
- Psalms 69:18 אֶל prep Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
- Psalms 69:26 וְ/אֶל conj + prep For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
- Psalms 69:33 אֶל prep For Yahweh hears the needy, And doesn't despise his captive people.
- Psalms 71:2 אֵלַ֥/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
- Psalms 73:17 אֶל prep Until I entered God's sanctuary, And considered their latter end.
- Psalms 77:1 אֶל אֶל אֵלָֽ/י prep prep prep + sfx pers 1cs My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, And for him to listen to me.
- Psalms 78:54 אֶל prep He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
- Psalms 79:6 אֶֽל prep Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; On the kingdoms that don't call on your name;
- Psalms 79:12 אֶל prep Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom Their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
- Psalms 80:1 אֶל prep Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock, You who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.
- Psalms 80:11 וְ/אֶל conj + prep It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.
About this entry
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“to” is the headline sense of the Hebrew preposition אל (ʼêl). Beyond “to” it also covers “toward” and “unto” — see its full sense range. With 4,204 verses in 38 books, it is one of the most common word in the Hebrew Bible. First canonically at Genesis 1:9, it enters the text early. It clusters with אליהועיני under a shared root. See the sense tree, 4,204-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H413 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4,204
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4,204 distinct verses.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4
- by frequency
- Top 10 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4,204 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4,204 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2,341 verses · 56%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1,300 verses · 31%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 563 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Because 2×, For 2×, In 2×
- American Standard Version: In 3×, To 3×, Unto 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: To 2,001×, Me 343×, You 214×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: To 2,791×, Him 374×, Me 349×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H413 across 38 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 32 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H413 across 39 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H413 across 4,199 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 172 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1,299 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H413 across 5,255 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 133 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
7 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 7 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. of motion to or unto a person or place Gn 2:19, 22; 3,19; 8:9; 14:22; 16;9 etc., after every kind of verb expressing motion (בּוֹא, הָלַךְ, יָצָא, etc.) So with נָתַן to give (though ל is here more common) Gn 21:14; 35:4 Dt 13:2 +; מָכַר to sell Gn 37:36, etc. Metaph. Je 2:19 וְלֹאפַחְדָּתִי אֵלַיִךְ and that my fear (cometh) not unto thee (cf. Jb 31:23).—Peculiarly Gn 6:16 אֶל אַמָּה unto the length of a cubit, etc. And metaph. in the phrase אֶל־(אֱלֵי־)גִּיל unto exultation †Ho 9:1 Jb 3:22. Once, exceptionally (si vera l.) = even: Jb 5:5 וְאֶל־מִצִּנִּים יִקָּחֵהוּ and even out of thorns he taketh it. Sometimes pregnant, as Is 66:17 Je 41:7 זָנָה אֶל commit whoredom (by going) to Nu 25:1 Ez 16:26, 28, 29; דָּרַשׁ אֶל seek (by resorting) to one (sc. for oracles) Dt 18:11 Is 8:19; 11:10 +; חָבַר אֶל join together (& come) unto Gn 14:3; הִשְׁכִּים אֶל rise early (and go) to 19:27; 24:11 הִבְרִיךְ אֶל made to kneel down at; 47:18 תַּם אֶל i.e. has been made over to; פָּחַד אֶל to come in fear to Hos 3:5 Mi 7:17. Opp. is מִן, as מִן־הַקָּצֶה אֶל־הַקָּצֶה from end to end Ex 26:28; מִפֶּה אֶל־פֶּה Ezr 9:11 (syn. 2 K 21:16 פֶּה לָפֶה). And of time (rare) מֵעֵת אֶל־עֵת †1 Ch 9:25; מִיּוֹם אֶל־יוֹם †Nu 30:15 (P) 1 Ch 16:23 (in the ‖ ψ 96:2 מִיּוֹם לְיוֹם). e.g. Genesis 2:19
- 2. Where the limit is actually entered, into, Gn 6:18 and thou shalt enter into the ark 7:1; 19:3; 41:21; 42:17; & so after verbs of throwing, casting, putting 37:22 (הִשְׁלִיךְ) 39:20 וַיִּתְּנֵהוּ אֶל־בֵּית הַסֹּהַר put him into the prison house, Ex 28:30 (Lv 8:8) Dt 23:25; so after קָבַר to bury Gn 23:19; 25:9; 49:29; שָׂחַט to squeeze 40:11; מָחָה to blot out Nu 5:23, etc.; metaph. Gn 6:6 was pained into or unto his heart, שָׂם אֶל־לֵב, הֵשִׁיב to place, bring into (= lay to) heart Dt 4:39 2 S 19:20 al. In connexion with a number or multitude into which something enters, in among: 1 S 10:22 behold he had hid himself אֶל־הַכֵּלִים in among the baggage, Je 4:3 sow not אֶל־קֹצִים in among thorns. e.g. Genesis 6:18
- 3. Of direction towards anything: (a) of physical acts or states, as Gn 30:40 נָתַן פְּנֵי הַצֹּאן אֶל, 39:7 נָשָׂא עֵינָיו אֶל, Ex 25:20, Nu 6:26 נָשָׂא פָנָיו אֶל (2 K 9:32 differently), 24:1 שָׁת פָּנָיו אֶל, Jos 8:18 ψ 28:2 1 K 8:29, 30 (to pray towards) v 38; pregn. חָרַד אֶל to tremble (turning) to Gn 42:28, תָּמַהּ אֶל to wonder (turning) towards Gn 43:33; Is 13:8, פָּחַד אֶל Je 36:16: without a vb. פָּנִים אֶל־פָּנִים face to face Gn 32:31 +; פֶּה אֶל־פֶּה Nu 12:8; כִּי־אֵינֶנּוּ אֵלַי Gn 31:5 the face of Laban, that he is not toward me; עֵינֵי י׳ אֶל־פ׳ the eyes of י׳ are towards … ψ 34:16 (cf. 33:18). (b) with words such as אָמַר to say to Gn 3:1 + often, דִּבֶּר 8:15 + often, קָרָא 19:5, הִחְפַּלֵּל 20:17 etc., שָׁמַע to hearken to 16:11, הִלֵּל to praise to 12:15 (cf. Ez 13:19 חִלֵּל אֶל to profane to), הִזְכִּיר 40:14. (c) with words expressing the direction of the mind, as קִוָּה to wait ψ 27:14 +; יִחַל to hope Is 51:5; נָשָׂא נֶפֶשׁ אֶל to lift up the soul (i.e. set the desire) towards Dt 24:15 ψ 25:1; שָׂם לֵב אֶל, שָׁת to set the heart (mind) to Ex 9:21 al.; לָמַד אֶל to accustom oneself to Je 10:2; חָרַד אֶל to shew thought for 2 K 4:13; Gn 43:30; Dt 28:32 and thy eyes כָּלוֹת אֲלֵיהֶם failing (with longing) towards them, La 4:17; Is 63:15 2 S 3:8 1 K 14:13 ψ 40:6; alone, as predic., directed or disposed towards, Gn 3:16; 4:7 2 K 6:11 who of ours is towards (i.e. favours) the king of Syria? Ho 3:3 וְגַם־אֲנִי אֵלָֽיִךְ׃ Ez 36:9 Ho 2:17 Je 15:1 (אֵין נַפְשִׁי אֶל). e.g. Genesis 30:40
- 4. Where the motion or direction implied appears from the context to be of a hostile character, אֶל = against: Gn 4:8 וַיָּקָם ק׳ אֶל־הֶבֶל and Cain rose up against Abel (so 1 S 24:8) 22:12 Ex 14:5 Nu 32:14; with נִקְבַּץ Jos 10:6, הָלַךְ Ju 1:10; 20:30; with בָּא of calamity, etc., coming to or upon any one Gn 42:21 Ju 9:57 1 S 2:34 1 K 14:10 +; Is 2:4; 3:8 their tongue and doings are אֶל־י׳ 32:6 (לְדַבֵּר אֶל) Ho 7:15 (cf. Na 1:9) 12:5 וַיָּשַׂר אֶל־מַלְאָךְ and he strove against the angel. Here also belongs in partic. the phrace הִנְנִי אֶל … Behold I am against (thee, you etc.) †Na 2:14; 3:5 Je 21:13 (23:30–32 על) 50:31; 51:25 Ez 13:8, 20; 21:8; 29:10; 30:22; 34:10; 35:3; 38:3; 39:1 (5:8; 26:3; 28:22; 29:3 על: on 36:9 v. supr.) e.g. Genesis 4:8
- 5. Unto sometimes acquires from the context the sense of in addition to, as Lv 18:18 thou shalt not take אִשָּׁה אֶל אֲחוֹתָהּ a woman to, in addition to, her sister, Jos 13:22 (‖ Nu 31:8 על; 1 S 14:34 to eat אֶל־הַדָּם together with the blood (v 32 & generally עַל); 1 K 10:7 הוֹסִיף אֶל (generally עַל); Je 25:26; Ez 7:26 שְׁמוּעָה אֶל שְׁמוּעָה (‖ על); 44:7; La 3:41 let us lift up לְבָבֵנוּ אֶל־כַּפָּ֑יִם our hearts together with the hands (cf. إِلَى, Qor 4:2; WAG ii. § 51 c). 6. Metaph. in regard to, concerning, on account of: thus הִתְאַבֵּל to mourn concerning 1 S 15:35; הִנָּחֵם to repent as regards 2 S 24:16; דָּרַשׁ to inquire 1 K 14:5; הִתְפַּלֵּל to pray with regard to 1 S 1:27 2 K 19:20 Is 37:21; צָעַק to cry 2 K 8:3 (v 5 על); נֶעֱצַב be pained 1 S 20:34; נִחַם to comfort 2 S 10:2; more gen. 1 K 16:13; 21:22; אֶל־נֶפֶשׁ on account of, for the sake of, one’s life 1 K 19:3 2 K 7:7 (Gn 19:17 על). (עַל is more common in this sense.) And specially with verbs of saying, narrating, telling, etc. with regard to, as אָמַר Gn 20:2 Is 29:22; 37:33 +; דִּבֶּר 2 S 7:19 Je 40:16b; סִפֵּר ψ 2:7; 69:27; צִוָּה Is 23:11; שָׁמַע Ez 19:4; הַשְּׁמוּעָה אֶל the report regarding … 1 S 4:19. (Not freq., except in the case of אָמַר.) 7. Of rule or standard, according to (rare): אֶל־פִּי … according to the command of, Jos 15:13; 17:4: 21:3 (generally עַל־פִּי); אֶל־נָכוֹן according to what is fixed = of a certainty †1 S 23:23; 26:4 (v. Dr): perhaps ψ 5:1; 80:1 (45:1 עַל). 8. Expressing presence at a spot, against, at, by, not merely after verbs expressing or implying motion (cf. 1, Gn 24:11), as Jos 11:5 and they came and encamped together אֶל־מֵי מֵרוֹם at the waters of Merom, 1 S 5:4 cut off (and fallen) on to the threshold, 2 S 2:23 al. and smote him אֶל־הַחֹמֶשׁ in or on the belly, Dt 33:28 Ex 29:12 Lv 4:7; but also in other cases, as Jos 5:3 and he circucmcised the Israelites אֶל against, at the hill of the foreskins, 22:11 have built an altar אֶל־גְּלִילוֹת הַיַּרְדֵּן by the districts of Jordan, Ju 12:6 2 S 3:32, 14:30 & 18:4 אֶל־יַד at the side of (elsewhere לְיַד, עַל יַד), 1 K 13:20 as they were sitting אֶל־הַשֻּׁלְחָן at the table, 2 K 11:14 אֶל־הַמֶּלֶךְ by the king, Je 41:12 and found him by the great waters, etc., 46:10 אֶל־נְהַר פְּרָת by the Euphrates, Ez 3:15; 11:11; 17:8; 31:7; 40:18; 43:3; 47:7; 48:12. 9. Prefixed to other preps. it combines with them the idea of motion or direction to: thus אֶל־אַחֲרֵי 2 S 5:23 2 K 9:18, 19 סֹב אֶל־אַחֲרַי turn to behind me, Zc 6:6 (where אֶל is pleon., prob. due to clerical error; note יצא אל before & after); אֶל־בֵּין in between Ez 31:10, 14; אֵל־בֵּינוֹת similarly Ez 10:2; אֶל־מִבֵּית לְ׳ to (the part) within (v. sub בַּיִת), in within Lv 16:15, 2 K 11:15 ‖ have her forth in within the ranks; אֶל־מוּל v. מוּל; אֶל־מִנֶּגֶב לְ׳ unto the south of Jos 15:3; אֶל־מִחוּץ לְ׳ to the outside of Lv 4:12, 21 +; אֶל־נֹכַח to the front of Nu 19:4; אֶל־תַּחַת Ju 6:19 1 K 8:6 al. (v. sub תַּחַת). e.g. Leviticus 18:18
- 1. —In Gn 20:13 אֶל־כָּל־הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר נָבוֹא שָׁמָּה אִמְרִי־לִי וג׳; Nu 33:54 אֶל־אֲשֶׁר וג׳; Pr 17:8 (cf. Dt 16:6);—אֶל appears to be used by a species of attraction; the idea of motion involved in the relative clause influencing illogically the beginning of the sentence and causing אֶל to be used instead of בְּ. In Ez 31:14 אֵלֵיהֶם, as pointed, can only be from אַיִל iii or iv (q.v.); if the word be taken as the pron. with suff. (Hi Ke), אֲלֵיהֶם must be read. e.g. Genesis 20:13
- 2. —There is a tendency in Hebrew, especially manifest in S K Je Ez, to use אֶל in the sense of עַל; sometimes אֶל being used exceptionally in a phrase or construction which regularly, and in acc. with analogy, has עַל; sometimes, the two preps. interchanging, apparently without discrimination, in the same or parallel sentences. Thus (a) Jos 5:14 וַיִּפֹּל אֶל־פָּנָיו; 1 S 13:13 הֵכִין י׳ אֶת־מַמְלַכְתְּךָ אֶל־יִשְׂרָאֵל; 14:34 (v. sub 5); 17:3 עֹמְדִים אֶל־הָהָר (contr. עַל Dt 11:29); 19:16 2 S 6:3; 20:23 (contr. 8:16) 1 K 13:29 18:46 (contr. 2 K 3:15 על) Je 35:15 Ez 7:18. (b) Ju 6:37 and upon (עַל) all the earth let there be dryness, v 39 let there be dryness on (אֶל) the fleece; 1 S 14:10 come up עָלֵינוּ, v 12 come up אֵלֵינוּ; 16:23 & 16; 16:13 & 18:10 צָלַח אֶל, 10:6 al. צָלַח עַל; 25:17 evil is determined אֶל־אֲדֹנֵינוּ וְעַל כָּל־בֵּיתוֹ; v 25; 27:10; 2 S 2:9 וַיַּמְלִכֵהוּ אֶל … וְאֶל … וְאֶל … וְעַל … וְעַל … וְעֶל; 3:29 יָחֻלוּ עַל … וְאֶל …; 2 K 8:3 & 5; 9:6 & 3; Je 19:15; 25:2; 26:15 ye lay innocent blood עֲלֵיכֶם וְאֶל־הָעִיר הַזֹּאת; 27:19; 28:8; 33:14; 34:7; 36:31; 37:13, 14 Ez 2:6; 18:6, 11 & 15; 21:12 etc. ψ 79:6 (Je 10:25) על twice). It is prob. that this interchange, at least in many cases, is not original, but due to transcribers. Conversely, though not with the same frequency, עַל occurs where analogy would lead us to expect אֶל, or even in juxtaposition with אֶל, as 1 S 1:10 הִתְפַּלֵּל עַל to pray to (v 26 אֶל); v 13; 25:25 אֶל … עַל; 1 K 20:43 וַיֵּלֶךְ עַל־בֵּיתוֹ (21:4 אֶל); Is 22:15 Je 11:2; 23:35; 31:12(11). Cf. DrSm i. 13(×2); ii. 8, 7; 15, 4. e.g. Joshua 5:14
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
(nearly always followed by Makkeph), poet. אֱלֵי (cf. עֲלֵי, עֲדֵי), but only in Job (†3:22; 5:26; 15:22; 29:19), with suff. אֵלַי, אֵלֶיךָ, אֵלַיִךְ, etc. אֵלֵינוּ, אֲלֵיכֶם & (5 textual) אֲלֵכֶם, אֲלֵיהֶם & אֲלֵהֶם (both very often), once אֵלֵימוֹ ψ 2:5, אֲלֵיהֶן, once אֲלֵהֶן Ex 1:19 (Ar. إِلَى ), prep. denoting motion to or direction towards (whether physical or mental).
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Origin: primitive particle
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אַל־
- a prefix, = עַל; e.g. אַלְתּוּסְבְּרָאוֹת (= על האוצרות) appointed over treasures, v. אַ־.
אַל
- (b. h.) not, no (according to Talmud a milder form of prohibition than לֹא; v. Y. Pes. VI, 33ᵇ). Aboth I, 3.—אל תקרי (abbr. א"ת), v. אֶלָּא. Taan. 11ᵃ א׳ יראה וכ׳ shall not live to see &c.; a. v. fr.
אֶל
- אול to turn) prep. to, toward. — Pl., with prefix מ a. suffix of pers. pron., of itself, of my (his &c.) own accord, on my (his &c.) authority. Yoma 5ᵇ לא מֵאֵלַי not on my own authority. Orlah I, 2 העולה מֵאֵלָיו growing spontaneously.—Y. Peah VII, 20ᵇ bot. its sacred character מֵאֵלָיו למדו they did derive from itself (i.e. from the wording of the law itself).—Hence מִמֵּילָא, v. מֵילָא.
אֵל
- v. אלל) God. Shebu. 35ᵃ divine names which dare not be erased are El &c. Taan. 6ᵇ bot.; a. fr.
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Forms in the corpus
The 184 distinct written forms H413 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֶל | Preposition | Amos 2:7 | 3,369 |
| וְ/אֶל | Preposition | Daniel 8:9 | 277 |
| אֶֽל | Preposition | Deuteronomy 31:20 | 139 |
| אֵלַ֔/י | Preposition | Daniel 8:14 | 87 |
| אֵלָי/ו֙ | Preposition | Daniel 8:7 | 77 |
| אֵלַ֥/י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 2:2 | 73 |
| אֵלָ֔י/ו | Preposition | Deuteronomy 28:25 | 73 |
| אֵלָ֗י/ו | Preposition | Deuteronomy 26:3 | 62 |
| אֵלַ֖/י | Preposition | Daniel 8:1 | 56 |
| אֵלָ֖י/ו | Preposition | Daniel 8:6 | 55 |
| אֵלָ֑/י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 2:1 | 46 |
| אֵלַ֗/י | Preposition | Amos 7:8 | 44 |
| אֵלֶ֔י/ךָ | Preposition | Daniel 10:20 | 42 |
| אֵלֶ֖י/ךָ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 5:27 | 40 |
| אֵלַ/י֙ | Preposition | Amos 7:15 | 39 |
| אֲלֵ/הֶ֔ם | Preposition | Exodus 5:21 | 36 |
| אֲלֵי/הֶ֔ם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 18:18 | 36 |
| אֵלָ֜י/ו | Preposition | Deuteronomy 31:7 | 34 |
| אֵלָֽ/י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 5:22 | 33 |
| אֵלָ֑י/ו | Preposition | Deuteronomy 4:7 | 30 |
| וְ/אֶֽל | Preposition | Deuteronomy 23:24 | 29 |
| אֲלֵי/הֶ֗ם | Preposition | Ezekiel 12:23 | 24 |
| אֵלֶֽי/ךָ | Preposition | Exodus 6:29 | 24 |
| אֵלַ֛/י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 3:26 | 23 |
| אֲלֵ/הֶ֑ם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 29:2 | 22 |
| אֲלֵי/הֶ֖ם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 28:32 | 22 |
| אֲלֵי/הֶם֙ | Preposition | Ezekiel 3:6 | 22 |
| אֵלֶ֑י/ךָ | Preposition | Daniel 10:11 | 21 |
| אֵלָ֛י/ו | Preposition | Esther 7:7 | 21 |
| אֵלָֽי/ו | Preposition | Deuteronomy 4:7 | 21 |
| אֲלֵ/הֶ֗ם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 5:1 | 20 |
| אֲלֵ/הֶם֙ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 20:3 | 20 |
| אֵלֶ֨י/ךָ֙ | Preposition | Daniel 10:11 | 20 |
| אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ | Preposition | 2 Samuel 14:32 | 19 |
| אֲלֵי/הֶֽם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 21:18 | 18 |
| אֲלֵי/הֶ֜ם | Preposition | Ezekiel 9:7 | 17 |
| אֵלֶ֗י/ךָ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 5:31 | 16 |
| אֵלֶ֔י/הָ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 22:14 | 15 |
| אֵלָ֣י/ו | Preposition | 2 Chronicles 35:21 | 14 |
| אֲלֵי/הֶ֑ם | Preposition | Esther 3:4 | 13 |
| אֲלֵי/כֶ֔ם | Preposition | Ezekiel 13:8 | 13 |
| אֵלֶ֨י/הָ֙ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 21:13 | 13 |
| אֵלֶ֖י/הָ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 20:10 | 12 |
| אֵלַ֜/י | Preposition | Exodus 11:8 | 12 |
| אֲלֵי/כֶ֑ם | Preposition | Exodus 3:13 | 11 |
| אֲלֵי/כֶֽם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 1:45 | 11 |
| אֵלֶ֛י/ךָ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 13:1 | 11 |
| אֵלַ֣/י | Preposition | Deuteronomy 9:13 | 11 |
| אֲלֵי/כֶ֖ם | Preposition | Deuteronomy 1:43 | 10 |
| אֶ֖ל | Preposition | Ezekiel 9:3 | 10 |
| אֵלֶ֥י/ךָ | Preposition | 2 Kings 9:5 | 9 |
| אֵלָ֥י/ו | Preposition | Exodus 36:3 | 9 |
| אֲלֵ/הֶ֜ם | Preposition | Exodus 16:3 | 8 |
| אֵ֠לָי/ו | Preposition | 1 Samuel 19:4 | 8 |
| אֵלֵ֖י/נוּ | Preposition | Deuteronomy 1:6 | 8 |
| אֲלֵ/הֶ֖ם | Preposition | Ecclesiastes 8:14 | 7 |
| אֵלֵ֔י/נוּ | Preposition | Genesis 19:5 | 7 |
| אֵלֶ֜י/ךָ | Preposition | Exodus 27:20 | 7 |
| אֵלֶֽי/הָ | Preposition | Genesis 20:6 | 7 |
| וְ/אֶ֖ל | Preposition | Daniel 9:6 | 7 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 124 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H413, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
Most of the 4,204 Hebrew verses this word occurs in also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), so the same passages can be read in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:9
- Exodus 1:9
- Leviticus 1:1
- Numbers 1:1
- Deuteronomy 1:1
- Joshua 1:1
- Judges 1:1
- Ruth 1:7
- 1 Samuel 1:14
- 2 Samuel 1:2
- 1 Kings 1:11
- 2 Kings 1:2
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
