Strong's #413: 'el (pronounced ale)
(but only used in the shortened constructive form sel {el}); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or among; often in general, to:--about, according to ,after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, X hath, in(- to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
l'e / 'êl / 'el
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)
Part of Speech: preposition
Relation: primitive particle
Usage:
This word is used 5446 times:
Hosea 5:13: "then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king"
Hosea 5:13: "to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he"
Hosea 5:15: "I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense,"
Hosea 6:1: "Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he and he will heal"
Hosea 7:7: "are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto"
Hosea 7:10: "to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek"
Hosea 7:14: "And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled their beds:"
Hosea 7:15: "their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against"
Hosea 8:1: "Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house because"
Hosea 9:1: "Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: thou hast gone a whoring"
Hosea 9:13: "shall bring forth his children to the murderer."
Hosea 11:4: "their jaws, and I laid meat unto"
Hosea 11:5: "He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian because"
Hosea 11:7: "are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, would exalt"
Hosea 12:4: "Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication him in Bethel,"
Hosea 12:6: "mercy and judgment, on thy God continually."
Hosea 14:2: "with you words, and turn to the LORD: unto him, Take away"
Hosea 14:2: "to the LORD: unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive"
Joel 1:1: "of the LORD that came to Joel of Pethuel."
Joel 1:14: "of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,"
Joel 1:19: "O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured of the wilderness,"
Joel 1:20: "of the field cry also unto thee: for of waters are dried up,"
Joel 2:13: "and not your garments, and turn unto your God: for he"
Joel 2:20: "from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land and desolate,"
Joel 2:20: "and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part"
Joel 2:20: "toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink"
Joel 3:2: "all nations, and will bring them down into of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with"
Joel 3:3: "And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy and sold"
Joel 3:8: "and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD"
Joel 3:12: "Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: there"
Amos 2:7: "and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane"
Amos 3:7: "nothing, but his secret unto his servants the prophets."
Amos 4:8: "or three cities wandered unto one to drink water;"
Amos 5:16: "alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to"
Amos 5:16: "mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing."
Amos 7:8: "And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest And I said,"
Amos 7:10: "the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam of Israel, saying,"
Amos 7:12: "Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, into"
Amos 7:12: "O thou seer, go, into the land of Judah, and there eat"
Amos 7:14: "Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I prophet,"
Amos 7:15: "me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto"
Amos 7:15: "said me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel."
Amos 8:2: "of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people"
Amos 8:2: "unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again"
Jonah 1:1: "Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son saying,"
Jonah 1:2: "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, against"
Jonah 1:4: "sent out a great wind into the sea, a mighty tempest"
Jonah 1:5: "were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, the wares"
Jonah 1:5: "the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of"
Jonah 1:5: "it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay,"
