אֶל

el

Hebrew H0413 Preposition 5,513 occurrences in 4,204 verses
אֶל to(wards)

1. to, toward, unto (of motion)

2. into (limit is actually entered)

a. in among

3. toward (of direction, not necessarily physical motion)

4. against (motion or direction of a hostile character)

5. in addition to, to

6. concerning, in regard to, in reference to, on account of

7. according to (rule or standard)

8. at, by, against (of one's presence)

9. in between, in within, to within, unto (idea of motion to)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 4,204 verses

  1. 2 Samuel 17:20 אֶֽל־

    When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

  2. After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”

  3. 2 Samuel 17:23 אֶל־אֶל־אֶל־

    When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

  4. Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.

  5. 2 Samuel 18:2 אֶל־

    He sent out the troops, a third under Joab, a third under Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, “I will surely march out with you as well.”

  6. 2 Samuel 18:3 אֵלֵ֣ינוּאֵלֵ֙ינוּ֙

    But the people pleaded, “You must not go out! For if we have to flee, they will pay no attention to us. Even if half of us die, they will not care; but you are worth ten thousand of us. It is better for now if you support us from the city.”

  7. 2 Samuel 18:4 אֲלֵיהֶם֙אֶל־

    “I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

  8. 2 Samuel 18:12 אֶל־אֶל־

    The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’

  9. They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.

  10. Ahimaaz son of Zadok, however, persisted and said to Joab, “Regardless of whatever may happen, please let me also run behind the Cushite!” “My son,” Joab replied, “why do you want to run, since you will not receive a reward?”

  11. 2 Samuel 18:24 אֶל־אֶל־

    Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.

  12. the watchman saw another man running, and he called out to the gatekeeper, “Look! Another man is running alone!” “This one also brings good news,” said the king.

  13. 2 Samuel 18:27 וְאֶל־

    The watchman said, “The first man appears to me to be running like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “This is a good man,” said the king. “He comes with good news.”

  14. Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he bowed facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.”

  15. The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And the Cushite replied, “May what has become of the young man happen to the enemies of my lord the king and to all who rise up against you to harm you.”

  16. 2 Samuel 19:5 אֶל־

    Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.

  17. 2 Samuel 19:11 אֶל־וְאֶל־אֶל־אֶל־אֶל־אֶל־

    Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?

  18. So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”

  19. 2 Samuel 19:19 אֶל־אֶל־

    and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

  20. So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king swore an oath to him.

  21. and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.

  22. For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”

  23. 2 Samuel 19:30 אֶל־אֶל־

    And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”

  24. The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”

  25. But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

  26. I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

  27. 2 Samuel 19:41 אֶל־אֶל־

    Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”

  28. 2 Samuel 19:42 אֵלַ֔י

    And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense or received anything for ourselves?”

  29. 2 Samuel 20:3 אֶל־וַאֲלֵיהֶ֖ם

    When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.

  30. 2 Samuel 20:4 אֶל־

    Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”

  31. 2 Samuel 20:6 אֶל־

    And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”

  32. Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

  33. And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,

  34. 2 Samuel 20:16 אֶל־אֵלֶֽיךָ׃

    a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here so that I may speak with him.”

  35. 2 Samuel 20:17 אֵלֶ֔יהָ

    When he had come near to her, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?” “I am,” he replied. “Listen to the words of your servant,” she said. “I am listening,” he answered.

  36. 2 Samuel 20:21 אֶל־אֵלֶ֖יךָ

    That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

  37. 2 Samuel 20:22 אֶל־אֶל־אֶל־

    Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

  38. Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites;

  39. 2 Samuel 21:1 אֶל־וְאֶל־

    During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

  40. 2 Samuel 21:2 אֲלֵיהֶ֑ם

    At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)

  41. 2 Samuel 21:3 אֶל־

    So David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”

  42. 2 Samuel 21:5 אֶל־

    And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,

  43. And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

  44. 2 Samuel 22:7 וְאֶל־

    In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.

  45. They looked, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.

  46. but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.

  47. 2 Samuel 23:13 אֶל־אֶל־אֶל־

    At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

  48. So the three mighty men broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,

  49. 2 Samuel 23:21 אֵלָ֖יו

    He also killed an Egyptian, a huge man. Although the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club, snatched the spear from his hand, and killed the Egyptian with his own spear.

  50. 2 Samuel 23:23 וְאֶל־אֶל־

    He was most honored among the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.

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