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אֶל (el) means “to(wards)” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

אֶל Hebrew · H413 5,516 tagged occurrences in 4,206 verses

Pronunciation guide: ale Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0413

אֶל · el · to(wards)

1) to, toward, unto (of motion) 2) into (limit is actually entered) 2a) 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)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

(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

KJV glosses: about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, [idiom] hath, in(-to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).

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How translators render H413

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
to 1902
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to you 146
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them 59
toward 50
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him 47
me 47
and 42
you 42
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with 24
before 20
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upon 16
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her 15
of 15
over 15
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vvv 15
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by 8
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inside 7
you into 7
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against you 6
to elijah 6
to it 6
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after 5
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back to 5
near 5
or 5
to himself 5
us 5
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enter 4
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before you 3
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them that 3
to gideon 3
to yourself 3
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on him 2
straight ahead 2
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to balak 2
to elisha 2
to enter 2
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to jeremiah 2
to moses and aaron 2
to the king 2
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together 2
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god 1
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to king ahaziah 1
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KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
against 2
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thee whither it seemeth 1
through 1
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Verses containing H413

Page 32 of 85. 4206 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Judges 11:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, “What do you have against me that you have come to fight against my land?”

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  2. Judges 11:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”

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  3. Judges 11:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites

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  4. Judges 11:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. They also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel stayed in Kadesh.

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  5. Judges 11:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land into our own place.’

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  6. Judges 11:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But the king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him.

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  7. Judges 11:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD delivered them into his hand.

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  8. Judges 11:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

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  9. Judges 11:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”

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  10. Judges 11:36 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”

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  11. Judges 11:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”

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  12. Judges 11:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel

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  13. Judges 12:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands.

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  14. Judges 12:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”

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  15. Judges 12:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.

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  16. Judges 13:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.

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  17. Judges 13:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. His appearance was like the angel of God, exceedingly awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

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  18. Judges 13:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”

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  19. Judges 13:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God returned to the woman as she was sitting in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.

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  20. Judges 13:10 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    The woman ran quickly to tell her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has reappeared!”

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  21. Judges 13:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” “I am,” he said.

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  22. Judges 13:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her.

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  23. Judges 13:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”

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  24. Judges 13:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.

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  25. Judges 13:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes to pass?”

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  26. Judges 13:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.

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  27. Judges 13:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”

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  28. Judges 14:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”

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  29. Judges 14:9 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.

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  30. Judges 14:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.

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  31. Judges 15:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

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  32. Judges 15:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.

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  33. Judges 15:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.

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  34. Judges 15:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

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  35. Judges 16:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

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  36. Judges 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.

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  37. Judges 16:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

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  38. Judges 16:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

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  39. Judges 16:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”

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  40. Judges 16:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.

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  41. Judges 16:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”

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  42. Judges 16:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”

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  43. Judges 16:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.

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  44. Judges 16:13 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”

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  45. Judges 16:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.

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  46. Judges 16:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”

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  47. Judges 16:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: “Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.

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  48. Judges 16:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”

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  49. Judges 16:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Samson called out to the LORD: “O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”

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  50. Judges 17:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”

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