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
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
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
toward him	1
toward it	1
toward them	1
turn to me	1
up to me	1
upon him	1
upon us	1
was on	1
was over	1
was to be placed on	1
we are	1
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were beside	1
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 41 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.

2 Samuel 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king asked, “Is there anyone left of the house of Saul to whom I can show the kindness of God?” Ziba answered, “There is still Jonathan’s son, who is lame in both feet.”
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2 Samuel 9:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Where is he?” replied the king. And Ziba said, “Indeed, he is in Lo-debar at the house of Machir son of Ammiel.”
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2 Samuel 9:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he fell facedown in reverence. Then David said, “Mephibosheth!” “I am your servant,” he replied.
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2 Samuel 9:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”
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2 Samuel 9:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said to him, “I have given to your master’s grandson all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.
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2 Samuel 9:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do all that my lord the king has commanded.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table like one of the king’s own sons.
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2 Samuel 10:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,
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2 Samuel 10:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Has not David instead sent his servants to explore the city, spy it out, and overthrow it?”
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2 Samuel 10:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.
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2 Samuel 11:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
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2 Samuel 11:6 · BSB · 3 occurrences
At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
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2 Samuel 11:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing and how the war was going.
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2 Samuel 11:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.
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2 Samuel 11:10 · BSB · 3 occurrences
And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
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2 Samuel 11:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
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2 Samuel 11:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
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2 Samuel 11:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.
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2 Samuel 11:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
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2 Samuel 11:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
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2 Samuel 11:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers were.
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2 Samuel 11:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king a full account of the battle,
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2 Samuel 11:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
if the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
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2 Samuel 11:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
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2 Samuel 11:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
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2 Samuel 11:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”
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2 Samuel 11:25 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
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2 Samuel 11:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
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2 Samuel 12:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
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2 Samuel 12:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
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2 Samuel 12:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
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2 Samuel 12:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
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2 Samuel 12:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
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2 Samuel 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
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2 Samuel 12:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
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2 Samuel 12:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.
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2 Samuel 12:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.
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2 Samuel 12:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
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2 Samuel 12:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
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2 Samuel 12:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
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2 Samuel 12:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Joab sent messengers to David to say, “I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.
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2 Samuel 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
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2 Samuel 13:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
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2 Samuel 13:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
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2 Samuel 13:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
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2 Samuel 13:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”
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2 Samuel 13:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
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2 Samuel 13:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.
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2 Samuel 13:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”
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2 Samuel 13:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.
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2 Samuel 13:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
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