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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
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
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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
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a section for 1
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according 1
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after you 1
against her 1
against it 1
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and everywhere 1
and i will send for 1
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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
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any in 1
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around me 1
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at her 1
at them 1
at you 1
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back upon 1
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bordering 1
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come 1
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david 1
each one to whom 1
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expecting 1
facing one another 1
fit for 1
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for yourselves 1
freedom to fall 1
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furthermore 1
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go up to 1
god 1
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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
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in all 1
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in on 1
in the presence of 1
inherit 1
into you 1
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it 1
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it on 1
it to me 1
joseph 1
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moses 1
my god 1
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never 1
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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
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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
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to those who 1
to visit 1
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to you tonight 1
together against 1
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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
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both 1
by 1
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for 1
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into 1
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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 46 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 Kings 12:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

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  2. 1 Kings 12:10 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

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  3. 1 Kings 12:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”

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  4. 1 Kings 12:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”

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  5. 1 Kings 12:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.

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  6. 1 Kings 12:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,

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  7. 1 Kings 12:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.

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  8. 1 Kings 12:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:

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  9. 1 Kings 12:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people

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  10. 1 Kings 12:27 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

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  11. 1 Kings 12:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

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  12. 1 Kings 13:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.

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  13. 1 Kings 13:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.

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  14. 1 Kings 13:6 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.

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  15. 1 Kings 13:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”

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  16. 1 Kings 13:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.

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  17. 1 Kings 13:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.

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  18. 1 Kings 13:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.

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  19. 1 Kings 13:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.

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  20. 1 Kings 13:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the prophet said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” Then they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it

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  21. 1 Kings 13:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.

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  22. 1 Kings 13:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”

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  23. 1 Kings 13:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”

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  24. 1 Kings 13:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,

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  25. 1 Kings 13:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,

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  26. 1 Kings 13:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,

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  27. 1 Kings 13:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.’”

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  28. 1 Kings 13:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the old prophet instructed his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled it,

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  29. 1 Kings 13:29 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So the old prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.

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  30. 1 Kings 13:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,

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  31. 1 Kings 14:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the boy.”

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  32. 1 Kings 14:5 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    But the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.”

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  33. 1 Kings 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised? For I have been sent to you with bad news.

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  34. 1 Kings 14:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!

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  35. 1 Kings 14:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.

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  36. 1 Kings 14:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would bear the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.

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  37. 1 Kings 15:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace. He entrusted it to his servants and sent them with this message to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:

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  38. 1 Kings 15:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.

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  39. 1 Kings 16:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying:

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  40. 1 Kings 16:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands and becoming like the house of Jeroboam, and also because Baasha had struck down the house of Jeroboam.

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  41. 1 Kings 16:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Zimri destroyed the entire household of Baasha, according to the word that the LORD had spoken against Baasha through Jehu the prophet.

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  42. 1 Kings 16:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This happened because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.

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  43. 1 Kings 16:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down upon himself. So he died

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  44. 1 Kings 17:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

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  45. 1 Kings 17:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah:

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  46. 1 Kings 17:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:

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  47. 1 Kings 17:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”

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  48. 1 Kings 17:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”

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  49. 1 Kings 17:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son,

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  50. 1 Kings 17:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”

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