אֶל
el
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
- Genesis 38:8 אֶל־
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
- Genesis 38:9 אֶל־
But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
- Genesis 38:16 אֵלֶ֜יהָאֶל־אֵלַ֔יִךְאֵלָֽי׃
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
- Genesis 38:18 אֵלֶ֖יהָ
“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
- Genesis 38:22 אֶל־
So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
- Genesis 38:25 אֶל־
As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
- Genesis 39:7 אֶל־
and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
- Genesis 39:8 אֶל־
But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.
- Genesis 39:10 אֶל־אֵלֶ֛יהָ
Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.
- Genesis 39:14 אֵלַי֙
she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
- Genesis 39:16 אֶל־
So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.
- Genesis 39:17 אֵלָ֔יואֵלַ֞י
Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,
- Genesis 39:19 אֵלָיו֙
When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.
- Genesis 39:20 אֶל־
So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
- Genesis 39:21 אֵלָ֖יו
the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
- Genesis 40:3 אֶל־
and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.
- Genesis 40:6 אֲלֵיהֶ֛ם
When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught.
- Genesis 40:8 אֵלָ֔יואֲלֵהֶ֜ם
“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
- Genesis 40:11 אֶל־
Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand.”
- Genesis 40:14 אֶל־
But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.
- Genesis 40:16 אֶל־
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
- Genesis 41:14 אֶל־
So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.
- Genesis 41:15 אֶל־
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
- Genesis 41:17 אֶל־
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
- Genesis 41:21 אֶל־אֶל־
When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.
- Genesis 41:24 אֶל־
And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”
- Genesis 41:25 אֶל־
At this, Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
- Genesis 41:28 אֶל־
It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.
- Genesis 41:32 אֶל־
Moreover, because the dream was given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by God, and He will carry it out shortly.
- Genesis 41:38 אֶל־
So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”
- Genesis 41:39 אֶל־
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.
- Genesis 41:41 אֶל־
Pharaoh also told Joseph, “I hereby place you over all the land of Egypt.”
- Genesis 41:44 אֶל־
And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot.”
- Genesis 41:55 אֶל־אֶל־
When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
- Genesis 41:57 אֶל־
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
- Genesis 42:7 אֲלֵיהֶ֜םאֲלֵהֶם֙
And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
- Genesis 42:9 אֲלֵהֶם֙
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
- Genesis 42:10 אֵלָ֖יו
“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.
- Genesis 42:12 אֲלֵהֶ֑ם
“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
- Genesis 42:14 אֲלֵהֶ֖םאֲלֵכֶ֛ם
Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!
- Genesis 42:17 אֶל־
So Joseph imprisoned them for three days,
- Genesis 42:18 אֲלֵהֶ֤ם
and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
- Genesis 42:20 אֵלַ֔י
Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.” And to this they consented.
- Genesis 42:21 אֶל־אֵלֵ֖ינוּאֵלֵ֔ינוּ
Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
- Genesis 42:22 אֲלֵיכֶ֧ם׀
And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”
- Genesis 42:24 אֲלֵהֶם֙אֲלֵהֶ֔ם
And he turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.
- Genesis 42:25 אֶל־
Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man’s silver to his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. This order was carried out,
- Genesis 42:28 אֶל־אֶל־
“My silver has been returned!” he said to his brothers. “It is here in my sack.” Their hearts sank, and trembling, they turned to one another and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”
- Genesis 42:29 אֶל־
When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:
- Genesis 42:31 אֵלָ֖יו
But we told him, ‘We are honest men, not spies.