Strong's #411: 'el (pronounced ale)
 a demonstrative particle (but only in a plural sense) these or those:--these, those. Compare 428.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
 
  'êl 
 
 1) these, those
 
  Part of Speech: demonstrative pronoun proper
Relation: a demonstrative particle (only in a plural sense)
Usage:
This word is used 9 times:
Genesis 19:8: "you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only  unto these men do nothing;"
Genesis 19:25: "And he overthrew  those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants"
Genesis 26:3: "I will give all  these countries, and I will perform"
Genesis 26:4: "unto thy seed all  these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations"
Leviticus 18:27: "(For all  these abominations have the men of the land done,"
Deuteronomy 4:42: "in times past; and that fleeing unto one of  these cities"
Deuteronomy 7:22: "thy God will put out  those nations before thee by little"
Deuteronomy 19:11: "that he die, and fleeth into one  of these cities:"
1 Chronicles 20:8: " These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand"