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

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Genesis 38:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
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Genesis 38:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
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Genesis 38:16 · BSB · 4 occurrences
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
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Genesis 38:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
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Genesis 38:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
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Genesis 38:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
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Genesis 39:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
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Genesis 39:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.
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Genesis 39:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.
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Genesis 39:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
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Genesis 39:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.
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Genesis 39:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,
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Genesis 39:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.
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Genesis 39:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
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Genesis 39:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
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Genesis 40:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.
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Genesis 40:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught.
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Genesis 40:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
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Genesis 40:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand.”
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Genesis 40:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.
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Genesis 40:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
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Genesis 41:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.
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Genesis 41:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
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Genesis 41:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
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Genesis 41:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.
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Genesis 41:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”
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Genesis 41:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At this, Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
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Genesis 41:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.
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Genesis 41:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, because the dream was given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by God, and He will carry it out shortly.
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Genesis 41:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”
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Genesis 41:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.
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Genesis 41:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Pharaoh also told Joseph, “I hereby place you over all the land of Egypt.”
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Genesis 41:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot.”
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Genesis 41:55 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
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Genesis 41:57 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
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Genesis 42:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
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Genesis 42:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
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Genesis 42:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.
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Genesis 42:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
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Genesis 42:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!
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Genesis 42:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joseph imprisoned them for three days,
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Genesis 42:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
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Genesis 42:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.” And to this they consented.
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Genesis 42:21 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
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Genesis 42:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”
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Genesis 42:24 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And he turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.
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Genesis 42:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man’s silver to his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. This order was carried out,
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Genesis 42:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“My silver has been returned!” he said to his brothers. “It is here in my sack.” Their hearts sank, and trembling, they turned to one another and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”
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Genesis 42:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:
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Genesis 42:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But we told him, ‘We are honest men, not spies.
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