el H413

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
to me	285
to you	146
to him	136
into	134
against	103
to them	96
in	83
at	77
on	77
them	59
toward	50
for	48
him	47
me	47
and	42
you	42
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to her	29
with	24
before	20
it to	17
concerning	16
upon	16
about	15
her	15
of	15
over	15
to us	15
vvv	15
word to	14
that	11
against me	10
i am against you	10
for you	9
you to	9
by	8
with you	8
among	7
and against	7
inside	7
you into	7
a message to	6
against you	6
to elijah	6
to it	6
with him	6
after	5
against them	5
back to	5
near	5
or	5
to himself	5
us	5
around him	4
enter	4
is against	4
toward you	4
wherever	4
along	3
are on	3
as for	3
at him	3
back	3
before you	3
beside	3
but	3
but as for	3
faced	3
facedown	3
from	3
i am against	3
is upon	3
next to	3
onto	3
them that	3
to gideon	3
to yourself	3
upon me	3
upon them	3
with her	3
about me	2
above	2
against him	2
against us	2
along with	2
and fitted into	2
and go to	2
and in	2
and on	2
around	2
at me	2
because	2
because of	2
before me	2
before them	2
came to him	2
do not	2
down	2
facing	2
for him	2
for me	2
for this	2
for us	2
had	2
in front of	2
in you	2
it in	2
it into	2
look to	2
of you	2
on him	2
straight ahead	2
themselves to	2
they turned to	2
to ahab	2
to balak	2
to elisha	2
to enter	2
to jacob	2
to jeremiah	2
to moses and aaron	2
to the king	2
to the place	2
together	2
under	2
upon you	2
was toward	2
with me	2
you and	2
you to them	2
a reply to	1
a section for	1
about them	1
about us	1
according	1
added	1
adjacent to	1
after them	1
after you	1
against her	1
against it	1
all the way around	1
all the way to	1
among ourselves	1
and also to	1
and by	1
and closer to	1
and everywhere	1
and i will send for	1
and its side pillars	1
and live in	1
and lying on	1
and on through	1
and on to	1
and over	1
and placed under	1
and returned to	1
and run	1
and sling you into	1
and threw them into	1
and to have	1
and toward	1
and upon	1
and went into	1
and went to	1
any in	1
anywhere else	1
are fixed on you	1
are inclined	1
around me	1
as his own	1
as well	1
as well as	1
asked	1
at her	1
at them	1
at you	1
back into	1
back to me	1
back upon	1
be on	1
be on you	1
be poured out on	1
belongs to	1
bordering	1
but in	1
but to	1
by him	1
came to abram	1
came to me	1
come	1
come to me	1
concerning them	1
consult	1
cried out to	1
david	1
each one to whom	1
either to	1
even to	1
expecting	1
facing one another	1
fit for	1
for defense against	1
for himself	1
for them	1
for yourselves	1
freedom to fall	1
from as far away as	1
from them	1
furthermore	1
go out to	1
go to	1
go up to	1
god	1
has come to us	1
have far	1
he put his affairs	1
himself	1
his	1
his attitude toward me	1
his bags to	1
his sons to him	1
i	1
i am on your side	1
i cried to	1
i cried to you	1
i cry out to you	1
i flee to you	1
i looked to	1
in addition	1
in all	1
in keeping with	1
in on	1
in the presence of	1
inherit	1
into you	1
is for you	1
is on	1
is on the side	1
is our	1
is to	1
it	1
it against	1
it aside	1
it is because of	1
it on	1
it to me	1
joseph	1
let them be placed	1
like wine	1
looked at	1
looking toward	1
meat with	1
messengers to	1
moses	1
my god	1
near her	1
never	1
of him	1
of it	1
of it toward	1
of meat	1
of them	1
on me	1
on the man himself	1
on them	1
on these	1
on to	1
on which	1
on you	1
on your behalf to	1
one	1
one beside	1
one of	1
only to	1
opposite	1
out to	1
outside	1
over here	1
over him	1
over to you	1
over you	1
past	1
ranks	1
regarding	1
say to you	1
shall also be square	1
side pillars	1
slept with	1
so by	1
so they shot ahaziah in	1
some honey into	1
southward	1
the angel	1
the animal	1
the people	1
the people in	1
the room adjacent to	1
they join	1
they will look at	1
this dream to	1
this happened because of	1
this message	1
this to	1
to abimelech	1
to abraham	1
to baruch	1
to be accompanied by	1
to harm you	1
to his	1
to hosea	1
to include	1
to isaac	1
to israel	1
to jehoram	1
to jehu	1
to joab	1
to jonah	1
to joshua	1
to king ahaziah	1
to meet me	1
to meet them	1
to moses	1
to myself	1
to put into	1
to return to	1
to say	1
to see	1
to sisera	1
to summon	1
to tell	1
to tell us	1
to tell you	1
to the	1
to the amalekite	1
to the levites	1
to the lord	1
to the man of god	1
to the other	1
to the people	1
to the tune of	1
to those who	1
to visit	1
to you for help	1
to you tonight	1
together against	1
told them	1
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toward it	1
toward them	1
turn to me	1
up to me	1
upon him	1
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when i called to you	1
where	1
who	1
who was with	1
will be for	1
will come near	1
will do the same for you	1
with it	1
with them	1
with us	1
yet that	1
you at	1
your fate	1
yourself to	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
against	2
because	2
in	2
to	2
about	1
according	1
after	1
also hath	1
among them	1
and as for	1
beside	1
both	1
by	1
by reason of	1
concerning	1
for	1
from	1
her before	1
him at	1
him under	1
into	1
is near	1
it even out	1
of	1
of them over	1
that	1
thee whither it seemeth	1
through	1
touching	1
toward	1
unto	1
upon	1
where	1
with	1
within	1

Verses containing H413

Page 38 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 Samuel 21:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
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Source alternate reference: 21.2
1 Samuel 21:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission on which I am sending you. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.
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Source alternate reference: 21.3
1 Samuel 21:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
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Source alternate reference: 21.5
1 Samuel 21:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.
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Source alternate reference: 21.11
1 Samuel 21:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
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Source alternate reference: 21.12
1 Samuel 21:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.
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Source alternate reference: 21.14
1 Samuel 21:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you can see that the man is insane! Why have you brought him to me?
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Source alternate reference: 21.15
1 Samuel 21:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Am I in need of madmen, that you have brought this man to rave in my presence? Must this man come into my house?”
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Source alternate reference: 21.16
1 Samuel 22:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
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1 Samuel 22:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.
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1 Samuel 22:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”
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1 Samuel 22:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Depart and go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
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1 Samuel 22:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with Saul’s servants, answered: “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.
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1 Samuel 22:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king sent messengers to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and his father’s whole family, who were priests at Nob. And all of them came to the king.
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1 Samuel 22:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”
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1 Samuel 22:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard and honored in your house?
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1 Samuel 23:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go and attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”
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1 Samuel 23:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But David’s men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”
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1 Samuel 23:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
(Now Abiathar son of Ahimelech had brought the ephod with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)
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1 Samuel 23:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Saul summoned all his troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.
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1 Samuel 23:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”
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1 Samuel 23:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David said, “O LORD, God of Israel, Your servant has heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city on my account.
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1 Samuel 23:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and strengthened his hand in God,
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1 Samuel 23:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
saying, “Do not be afraid, for my father Saul will never lay a hand on you. And you will be king over Israel, and I will be your second-in-command. Even my father Saul knows this is true.”
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1 Samuel 23:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
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1 Samuel 23:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Please go and prepare further. Investigate and watch carefully where he goes and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.
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1 Samuel 23:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”
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1 Samuel 23:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,
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1 Samuel 23:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Saul was proceeding along one side of the mountain, and David and his men along the other side. Even though David was hurrying to get away, Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.
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1 Samuel 23:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Come quickly, for the Philistines have raided the land!”
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1 Samuel 24:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.
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Source alternate reference: 24.4
1 Samuel 24:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
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Source alternate reference: 24.5
1 Samuel 24:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
With these words David restrained his men, and he did not let them rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and went on his way.
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Source alternate reference: 24.8
1 Samuel 24:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud
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Source alternate reference: 24.17
1 Samuel 24:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, though I have rewarded you with evil.
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Source alternate reference: 24.18
1 Samuel 24:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So David gave his oath to Saul. Then Saul returned home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.
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Source alternate reference: 24.23
1 Samuel 25:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.
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1 Samuel 25:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name
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1 Samuel 25:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When David’s young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.
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1 Samuel 25:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”
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1 Samuel 25:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My lord should pay no attention to this scoundrel Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means Fool, and folly accompanies him. I, your servant, did not see my lord’s young men whom you sent.
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1 Samuel 25:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, since the LORD has held you back from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, may your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal.
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1 Samuel 25:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
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1 Samuel 25:40 · BSB · 3 occurrences
When his servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said, “David has sent us to take you as his wife.”
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1 Samuel 26:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, opposite Jeshimon?”
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1 Samuel 26:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.
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1 Samuel 26:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David sent out spies to verify that Saul had arrived.
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1 Samuel 26:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp, with the troops camped around him.
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1 Samuel 26:6 · BSB · 4 occurrences
And David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” “I will go with you,” answered Abishai.
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1 Samuel 26:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.
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