Beside
אֵ֫צֶלStrong’s H0681etsel (e-tsel)
Appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Etsel is the Hebrew word usually translated “beside”, “beside me” and “beside him”. It appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.”
Meaning
- Beside, by, near, nearness, joining, proximity
- (BDB)conjunction, proximity · beside, in proximity, contiguous to, from beside
How it's translated
- beside 39
- beside me 4
- beside him 4
- beside them 3
- beside her 2
- from beside him 2
- from beside 2
- beside it 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 12
- Ezekiel 11
- Nehemiah 6
- Genesis 5
- 1 Samuel 4
- Leviticus 3
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 8:17In contextSo he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
- Daniel 10:13In contextBut the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
- Genesis 39:10And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
- Genesis 39:15And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out.
- Genesis 39:16And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
- Genesis 39:18And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
All 57 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אֵ֫צֶל etsel · beside
1) beside, by, near, nearness, joining, proximity subst 2) (BDB) 2a) conjunction, proximity 2b) beside, in proximity, contiguous to, from beside
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beside” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BESI'DE, preposition
[be and side, by the side.]
- At the side of a person or thing; near; as, sit down beside me, or beside the stream.
- Over and above; distinct from.“Beside all this, between us and you, there is a great gulf fixed” Luke 16:26
- On one side; out of the regular course or order; not according to, but not contrary.
- Out of; in a state deviating from; as, to put one beside his patience.
All definitions
- With the reciprocal pronoun, beside one's self is out of the wits or senses; out of the order of reason, or of rational beings.“Paul, thou are beside thyself” Acts 26:24
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.