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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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before you 3
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faced 3
facedown 3
from 3
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them that 3
to gideon 3
to yourself 3
upon me 3
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around 2
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down 2
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in you 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
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you and 2
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god 1
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himself 1
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i 1
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i cry out to you 1
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joseph 1
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my god 1
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to abraham 1
to baruch 1
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to hosea 1
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to israel 1
to jehoram 1
to jehu 1
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to jonah 1
to joshua 1
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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unto 1
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Verses containing H413

Page 51 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. 2 Kings 9:32 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.

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  2. 2 Kings 9:33 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “Throw her down!” yelled Jehu. So they threw her down, and her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses as they trampled her underfoot.

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

    Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:

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  4. 2 Kings 10:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “When this letter arrives, since your master’s sons are with you and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city and weaponry,

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  5. 2 Kings 10:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So the palace administrator, the overseer of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you say. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your sight.”

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  6. 2 Kings 10:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.

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  7. 2 Kings 10:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

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  8. 2 Kings 10:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The next morning, Jehu went out and stood before all the people and said, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all these?

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  9. 2 Kings 10:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Jehu ordered, “Take them alive.” So his men took them alive, then slaughtered them at the well of Beth-eked—forty-two men. He spared none of them.

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  10. 2 Kings 10:15 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    When he left there, he found Jehonadab son of Rechab, who was coming to meet him. Jehu greeted him and asked, “Is your heart as true to mine as my heart is to yours?” “It is!” Jehonadab replied. “If it is,” said Jehu, “give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand, and Jehu helped him into his chariot,

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  11. 2 Kings 10:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Jehu came to Samaria, he struck down everyone belonging to Ahab who remained there, until he had destroyed them, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to Elijah.

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  12. 2 Kings 10:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Jehu brought all the people together and said, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him a lot.

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  13. 2 Kings 10:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now, therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. See that no one is missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.

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  14. 2 Kings 10:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”

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  15. 2 Kings 11:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, and the guards, and had them brought into the house of the LORD. There he made a covenant with them and put them under oath. He showed them the king’s son

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  16. 2 Kings 11:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    the two divisions that would go off duty on the Sabbath are to guard the house of the LORD for the king.

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  17. 2 Kings 11:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You must surround the king with weapons in hand, and anyone who approaches the ranks must be put to death. You must stay close to the king wherever he goes.”

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  18. 2 Kings 11:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the commanders of hundreds did everything that Jehoiada the priest had ordered. Each of them took his men—those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty—and came to Jehoiada the priest.

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  19. 2 Kings 11:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Athaliah heard the noise from the guards and the people, she went out to the people in the house of the LORD.

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  20. 2 Kings 11:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And she looked out and saw the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom. The officers and trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason! Treason!”

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  21. 2 Kings 11:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of hundreds in charge of the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”

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  22. 2 Kings 12:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.

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    Source alternate reference: 12.5

  23. 2 Kings 12:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”

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    Source alternate reference: 12.8

  24. 2 Kings 13:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him because He saw the oppression that the king of Aram had inflicted on Israel.

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  25. 2 Kings 13:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”

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  26. 2 Kings 13:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Elisha told him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So Jehoash took a bow and some arrows.

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  27. 2 Kings 13:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.

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  28. 2 Kings 14:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Amaziah sent messengers to the king of Israel Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu. “Come, let us meet face to face,” he said.

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  29. 2 Kings 14:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.

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  30. 2 Kings 15:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the word of the LORD spoken to Jehu was fulfilled: “Four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”

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  31. 2 Kings 16:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hands of the kings of Aram and Israel, who are rising up against me.”

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  32. 2 Kings 16:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.

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  33. 2 Kings 16:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.

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  34. 2 Kings 17:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.

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  35. 2 Kings 17:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”

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  36. 2 Kings 18:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

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  37. 2 Kings 18:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.

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  38. 2 Kings 18:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then they called for the king. And Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to them.

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  39. 2 Kings 18:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?

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  40. 2 Kings 18:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

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  41. 2 Kings 18:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”

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  42. 2 Kings 18:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

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  43. 2 Kings 18:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

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  44. 2 Kings 18:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

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  45. 2 Kings 18:31 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

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  46. 2 Kings 18:32 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’

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  47. 2 Kings 18:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

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  48. 2 Kings 19:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz

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  49. 2 Kings 19:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

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  50. 2 Kings 19:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,

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