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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
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
and to 35
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
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wherever 4
along 3
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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
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next to 3
onto 3
them that 3
to gideon 3
to yourself 3
upon me 3
upon them 3
with her 3
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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
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before them 2
came to him 2
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down 2
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for him 2
for me 2
for this 2
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in you 2
it in 2
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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
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after you 1
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and everywhere 1
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at them 1
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david 1
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freedom to fall 1
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god 1
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have far 1
he put his affairs 1
himself 1
his 1
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i 1
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i cry out to you 1
i flee to you 1
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in all 1
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in the presence of 1
inherit 1
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it 1
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joseph 1
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moses 1
my god 1
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so by 1
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some honey into 1
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the animal 1
the people 1
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this message 1
this to 1
to abimelech 1
to abraham 1
to baruch 1
to be accompanied by 1
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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
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to say 1
to see 1
to sisera 1
to summon 1
to tell 1
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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
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KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
against 2
because 2
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to 2
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also hath 1
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that 1
thee whither it seemeth 1
through 1
touching 1
toward 1
unto 1
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where 1
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within 1

Verses containing H413

Page 39 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. 1 Samuel 26:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”

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  2. 1 Samuel 26:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can extend a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”

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  3. 1 Samuel 26:14 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    And David shouted to the troops and to Abner son of Ner, “Will you not answer me, Abner?” “Who are you who calls to the king?” Abner replied.

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  4. 1 Samuel 26:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So David said to Abner, “You are a man, aren’t you? And who in Israel is your equal? Why then did you not protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?

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  5. 1 Samuel 26:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Saul said to him, “May you be blessed, David my son. You will accomplish great things and will surely prevail.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned home.

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  6. 1 Samuel 27:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

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  7. 1 Samuel 27:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So David set out with his six hundred men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.

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  8. 1 Samuel 27:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

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  9. 1 Samuel 27:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

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  10. 1 Samuel 27:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,

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  11. 1 Samuel 27:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    who would ask him, “What have you raided today?” And David would reply, “The Negev of Judah,” or “The Negev of Jerahmeel,” or “The Negev of the Kenites.”

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  12. 1 Samuel 28:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for warfare against Israel. So Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men are to go out to battle with me.”

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  13. 1 Samuel 28:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    David replied, “Then you will come to know what your servant can do.” “Very well,” said Achish. “I will make you my bodyguard for life.”

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  14. 1 Samuel 28:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then Saul said to his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I can go and consult her.” “There is a medium at Endor,” his servants replied.

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  15. 1 Samuel 28:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So Saul disguised himself by putting on different clothes, and he set out with two of his men. They came to the woman at night, and Saul said, “Consult a spirit for me. Bring up for me the one I name.”

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  16. 1 Samuel 28:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the woman replied, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why have you set a trap to get me killed?”

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  17. 1 Samuel 28:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out in a loud voice and said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”

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  18. 1 Samuel 28:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Do not be afraid,” the king replied. “What do you see?” “I see a god coming up out of the earth,” the woman answered.

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  19. 1 Samuel 28:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am deeply distressed,” replied Saul. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has turned away from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”

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  20. 1 Samuel 28:21 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    When the woman came to Saul and saw how distraught he was, she said to him, “Look, your maidservant has obeyed your voice. I took my life in my hands and did as you told me.

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  21. 1 Samuel 28:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Saul refused, saying, “I will not eat.” But his servants joined the woman in urging him, and he heeded their voice. He got up from the ground and sat on the bed.

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  22. 1 Samuel 29:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, the servant of King Saul of Israel? He has been with me all these days, even years, and from the day he defected until today I have found no fault in him.”

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  23. 1 Samuel 29:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?

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  24. 1 Samuel 29:6 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and it seems right in my sight that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you are not good in the sight of the leaders.

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  25. 1 Samuel 29:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

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  26. 1 Samuel 29:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’

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  27. 1 Samuel 29:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

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  28. 1 Samuel 30:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.

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  29. 1 Samuel 30:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

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  30. 1 Samuel 30:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought it to him,

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  31. 1 Samuel 30:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—

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  32. 1 Samuel 30:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.

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  33. 1 Samuel 30:15 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    “Will you lead me to these raiders?” David asked. And the man replied, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hand of my master, and I will lead you to them.”

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  34. 1 Samuel 30:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Brook of Besor, they came out to meet him and the troops with him. As David approached the men, he greeted them,

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  35. 1 Samuel 30:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When David arrived in Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the LORD’s enemies.”

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  36. 1 Samuel 31:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.

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  37. 1 Samuel 31:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

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  38. 2 Samuel 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saul’s camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him homage.

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  39. 2 Samuel 1:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Where have you come from?” David asked. “I have escaped from the Israelite camp,” he replied.

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  40. 2 Samuel 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “What was the outcome?” David asked. “Please tell me.” “The troops fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”

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  41. 2 Samuel 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

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  42. 2 Samuel 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, and I answered, ‘Here I am!’

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  43. 2 Samuel 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    ‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’

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  44. 2 Samuel 1:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’

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  45. 2 Samuel 1:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”

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  46. 2 Samuel 1:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner,” he answered. “I am an Amalekite.”

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  47. 2 Samuel 1:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”

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  48. 2 Samuel 1:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”

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  49. 2 Samuel 1:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.

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  50. 2 Samuel 2:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Some time later, David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up to one of the towns of Judah?” “Go up,” the LORD answered. Then David asked, “Where should I go?” “To Hebron,” replied the LORD.

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