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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Genesis 1:9 · אֶל־And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.Genesis 2:19 · אֶל־And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.Genesis 2:22 · אֶל־And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.Genesis 3:1 · אֶל־Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”Genesis 3:2 · אֶל־The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,Genesis 3:4 · אֶל־“You will not surely die,” the serpent told the woman.Genesis 3:9 · אֶל־But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”Genesis 3:14 · אֶֽל־So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.Genesis 3:16 · אֶֽל־ · וְאֶל־To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”Genesis 3:19 · אֶל־ · וְאֶל־By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”Genesis 4:4 · אֶל־ · וְאֶל־while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,Genesis 4:5 · וְאֶל־ · וְאֶל־but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.Genesis 4:6 · אֶל־“Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?Genesis 4:7 · וְאֵלֶ֙יךָ֙If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”Genesis 4:8 · אֶל־ · אֶל־Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.Genesis 4:9 · אֶל־And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”Genesis 4:10 · אֵלַ֖י“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.Genesis 4:13 · אֶל־But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.Genesis 6:4 · אֶל־The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.Genesis 6:6 · אֶל־And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.Genesis 6:16 · וְאֶל־You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.Genesis 6:18 · אֶל־But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.Genesis 6:19 · אֶל־And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.Genesis 6:20 · אֵלֶ֖יךָTwo of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.Genesis 6:21 · אֵלֶ֑יךָYou are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”Genesis 7:1 · אֶל־Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.Genesis 7:7 · אֶל־And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.Genesis 7:9 · אֶל־ · אֶל־came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.Genesis 7:13 · אֶל־On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—Genesis 7:15 · אֶל־ · אֶל־They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.Genesis 8:9 · אֵלָיו֙ · אֶל־ · אֵלָ֖יו · אֶל־But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.Genesis 8:11 · אֵלָ֤יוAnd behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.Genesis 8:12 · אֵלָ֖יוAnd Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.Genesis 8:15 · אֶל־Then God said to Noah,Genesis 8:21 · אֶל־When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.Genesis 9:8 · אֶל־ · וְאֶל־Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,Genesis 9:17 · אֶל־So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”Genesis 11:3 · אֶל־And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.Genesis 12:1 · אֶל־ · אֶל־Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.Genesis 12:4 · אֵלָיו֙So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.Genesis 12:7 · אֶל־ · אֵלָֽיו׃Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.Genesis 12:11 · אֶל־As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,Genesis 12:15 · אֶל־When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.Genesis 13:4 · אֶל־to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.Genesis 13:8 · אֶל־So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are kinsmen.Genesis 13:14 · אֶל־After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,Genesis 14:3 · אֶל־The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).Genesis 14:7 · אֶל־Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.Genesis 14:17 · אֶל־After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).Genesis 14:21 · אֶל־The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself.”Genesis 14:22 · אֶל־ · אֶל־But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,Genesis 15:1 · אֶל־After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”Genesis 15:4 · אֵלָיו֙Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”Genesis 15:7 · אֵלָ֑יוThe LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”Genesis 15:9 · אֵלָ֗יוAnd the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”Genesis 15:15 · אֶל־You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.Genesis 16:2 · אֶל־ · אֶל־So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.Genesis 16:4 · אֶל־And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.Genesis 16:5 · אֶל־Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”Genesis 16:6 · אֶל־“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.Genesis 16:9 · אֶל־So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”Genesis 16:11 · אֶל־The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.Genesis 16:13 · אֵלֶ֔יהָSo Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”Genesis 17:1 · אֶל־ · אֵלָיו֙When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.Genesis 17:9 · אֶל־God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.Genesis 17:15 · אֶל־Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.Genesis 17:18 · אֶל־And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”Genesis 18:1 · אֵלָיו֙Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.Genesis 18:6 · אֶל־So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”Genesis 18:7 · וְאֶל־ · אֶל־Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender and choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.Genesis 18:9 · אֵׄלָׄ֔יׄוׄ“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.Genesis 18:10 · אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.Genesis 18:13 · אֶל־And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’Genesis 18:14 · אֵלֶ֛יךָIs anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”Genesis 18:21 · אֵלַ֖יI will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”Genesis 18:27 · אֶל־Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—Genesis 18:29 · אֵלָיו֙Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.”Genesis 18:31 · אֶל־And Abraham said, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it.”Genesis 18:33 · אֶל־When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.Genesis 19:2 · אֶל־and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”Genesis 19:3 · אֵלָ֔יו · אֶל־But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.Genesis 19:5 · אֶל־ · אֵלֶ֖יךָ · אֵלֵ֔ינוּThey called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”Genesis 19:6 · אֲלֵהֶ֛םLot went outside to meet them, shutting the door behind him.Genesis 19:8 · אֲלֵיכֶ֔םLook, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”Genesis 19:10 · אֲלֵיהֶ֖םBut the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.Genesis 19:12 · אֶל־Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,Genesis 19:14 · אֶל־So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.Genesis 19:18 · אֲלֵהֶ֑םBut Lot replied, “No, my lords, please!Genesis 19:21 · אֵלָ֔יו“Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.Genesis 19:27 · אֶל־Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.Genesis 19:31 · אֶל־One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.Genesis 19:34 · אֶל־The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”Genesis 20:2 · אֶל־Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.Genesis 20:3 · אֶל־One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”Genesis 20:4 · אֵלֶ֑יהָNow Abimelech had not gone near her, so he replied, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent?Genesis 20:6 · אֵלָ֨יו · אֵלֶֽיהָ׃Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.Genesis 20:10 · אֶל־Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”Genesis 20:13 · אֶ֤לSo when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”Genesis 20:17 · אֶל־Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—Genesis 21:12 · אֶל־ · אֵלֶ֛יךָBut God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.Genesis 21:14 · אֶל־Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.Genesis 21:17 · אֶל־ · אֶל־Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.Genesis 21:22 · אֶל־At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.Genesis 21:29 · אֶל־and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”Genesis 21:32 · אֶל־After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.Genesis 22:1 · אֵלָ֔יוSome time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.Genesis 22:2 · אֶל־ · אֵלֶֽיךָ׃“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”Genesis 22:3 · אֶל־So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.Genesis 22:5 · אֶל־ · אֲלֵיכֶֽם׃“Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.”Genesis 22:7 · אֶל־Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”Genesis 22:9 · אֶֽל־When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.Genesis 22:11 · אֵלָ֜יוJust then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.Genesis 22:12 · אֶל־“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”Genesis 22:15 · אֶל־And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,Genesis 22:19 · אֶל־ · אֶל־Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.Genesis 23:3 · אֶל־Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,Genesis 23:13 · אֶל־and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”Genesis 23:16 · אֶל־Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.Genesis 23:19 · אֶל־After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.Genesis 24:2 · אֶל־So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,Genesis 24:4 · אֶל־ · וְאֶל־but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”Genesis 24:5 · אֵלָיו֙ · אֶל־ · אֶל־The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”Genesis 24:6 · אֵלָ֖יוAbraham replied, “Make sure that you do not take my son back there.Genesis 24:10 · אֶל־ · אֶל־Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.Genesis 24:11 · אֶל־As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.Genesis 24:14 · אֵלֶ֙יהָ֙Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”Genesis 24:20 · אֶל־ · אֶֽל־And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.Genesis 24:24 · אֵלָ֔יוShe replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”Genesis 24:25 · אֵלָ֔יוThen she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”Genesis 24:29 · אֶל־ · אֶל־Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.Genesis 24:30 · אֵלַ֖י · אֶל־As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.Genesis 24:38 · אֶל־ · וְאֶל־but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’Genesis 24:39 · אֶל־Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’Genesis 24:40 · אֵלָ֑יAnd he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.Genesis 24:41 · אֶל־And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’Genesis 24:42 · אֶל־So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!Genesis 24:43 · אֵלֶ֔יהָHere I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’Genesis 24:44 · אֵלַי֙and she replies, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.Genesis 24:45 · אֶל־ · אֵלֶ֖יהָAnd before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’Genesis 24:50 · אֵלֶ֖יךָLaban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.Genesis 24:56 · אֲלֵהֶם֙But he replied, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master.”Genesis 24:58 · אֵלֶ֔יהָThey called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she replied.Genesis 24:65 · אֶל־and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.Genesis 25:6 · אֶל־But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.Genesis 25:8 · אֶל־And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.Genesis 25:9 · אֶל־ · אֶל־His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.Genesis 25:17 · אֶל־Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.Genesis 25:30 · אֶֽל־He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)Genesis 26:1 · אֶל־Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.Genesis 26:2 · אֵלָיו֙ · אֵלֶֽיךָ׃The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.
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