These
אִלֵּךְStrong’s H0479illekh (il-lekh)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Illekh is the Aramaic word usually translated “these”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.”
Meaning
- These, those
How it's translated
- these 14
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 10
- Ezra 3
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:13In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.
- Daniel 3:21In contextThen these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:22In contextTherefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
- Daniel 3:23In contextAnd these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:27In contextAnd the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
- Daniel 6:5In contextThen said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
Aramaic dictionary
אִלֵּךְ illekh · these
these, those Aramaic of el (אֵל "these" H0411)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.