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title: אֵל — these · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵל (411), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: these. BDB 1906: pr.pl.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵל

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«אֵל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **these** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 411 · **BDB:** אֵל²

### Glosses

these (9)

### Meaning (OSHB)

these [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/411/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pr.pl.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/411/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** pr.pl.m. \& f. = the more usual אֵלָּה, these 1 Ch 20:8; with art. הָאֵל Gn 19:8, 25; 26:3, 4 Lv 18:27 Dt 4:42; 7:22; 19:11. (Merely an orthogr. variation of אֵלָּה, and doubtless pronounced similarly; the kindred dialects have in genl. a dissyllabic form: v. sub אֵלֶּה. Written similarly in Ph., e.g. CIS 3:22; 14:5; 93:3 (האל), but ZMG1875, 240 (Neo-Punic) אלא; in Plaut. Poen. v. 1. 9 transliterated ily; Schroed.Ph. Gr. p. 81, 160, 286 ff.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (26 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (20 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/411/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 20:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.20.8/)

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אֵ֛ל נוּלְּד֥וּ לְהָרָפָ֖א בְּגַ֑ת וַיִּפְּל֥וּ בְיַד־דָּוִ֖יד וּבְיַד־עֲבָדָֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* these they.were.born to the Rapha in Gath and they.fell by the.hand of.David and by the.hand his.servants his

*JPS 1917:* These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

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[Leviticus 18:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.27/)

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כִּ֚י אֶת־כָּל־הַתּוֹעֵבֹ֣ת הָאֵ֔ל עָשׂ֥וּ אַנְשֵֽׁי־הָאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לִפְנֵיכֶ֑ם וַתִּטְמָ֖א הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) (et) all the abominations (the) these they.did the.people of the.land who \[were\] before you and it.became.unclean the land

*JPS 1917:* for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled —

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