These
אֵלStrong’s H0411el
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
El is the Hebrew word usually translated “these”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.”
Meaning
- These, those
How it's translated
- these 9
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Leviticus 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 19:25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
- Genesis 26:3Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
- Genesis 26:4And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
- Leviticus 18:27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
- Deuteronomy 4:42That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
- Deuteronomy 7:22And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Hebrew dictionary
אֵל el · these
these, those
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “these” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THESE, pronoun
plural of this. pronounced theez, and used as an adjective or substitute. these is opposed to those, as this is to that, and when two persons or things or collections of things are named, these refers to the things or persons which are nearest in place or order, or which are last mentioned.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.