--- title: אֵלֶּה — these · The Tanakh dictionary description: אֵלֶּה (428), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 746 times: these. BDB 1906: pr.pl.m. these. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/428.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488-4.md)‎ / אֵלֶּה‎ # אֵלֶּה «אֵלֶּה» 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. **Used:** 746 times · **Key:** 428 · **BDB:** אֵ֫לֶּה ### Glosses these (632); these.\[things\] (69); \[are\].these (12) ### Meaning (OSHB) these [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/428/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) pr.pl.m. these [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/428/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** (أُولَى, እሉ: እላ: Rabb. אֵלּוּ, Aramaic אִלֵּין, \& compd. with ܗܳܐ and ܐܰܝ in ܗܳܠܶܝܢ, ܐܰܝܠܶܝܢ ) pr.pl.m. \& f. these, in usage the pl. of זֶה. Gn 2:4 \& often: in appos. to a subst. with a pron. suff. (always without the art.) Ex 9:14 (read with Hi. אֵלֶּה בְּךָ for אֶל־לִבֵּךָ) 10:1 אֹתֹתַי אֵלֶּה these my signs, 11:8 Dt 11:18 1 K 8:59; 10:8; 22:23 2 K 1:13 Je 31:21 Ezr 2:65 Ne 6:14; in the genit. 2 K 6:20 Is 47:9 Dt 18:12 ψ 15:5; and after כל Gn 14:3 + often Standing alone in a neuter sense, these things (rare in best prose, \& not very common in poetry), with עָשָׂה Dt 18:12; 22:5; 25:16 2 S 23:17, 22 ψ 15:5 +; with other vbs. Ezr 9:1 Is 44:21; 47:7 Je 13:22 Ho 14:10 ψ 42:5; 50:21; 107:43 Jb 8:2; with אֶת־ Nu 15:13 Is 48:14; with כָּל־ Ju 13:23 Is 66:2 +; v. also some of the cases with preps. sub d. אלה may point indifferently to what follows, Gn 6:9; 10:1; 25:7, 12, 13 ψ 42:5; or to what has preceded, Gn 9:19; 10:20, 31, 32; 25:4 Lv 21:14; 22:22 ψ 15:5; = such as these (τοιαῦτα), ψ 73:12 Jb 18:21. repeated, אלה … ואלה, these … those Dt 27:12, 13 Jos 8:22 Is 49:12 (3 times) ψ 20:8 +. with art. (only after a subst. determined by art. (except Gn 21:29 Jos 17:9 עָרִים הָאֵלֶּה read הֶעָרִים, cf. 17:12; 19:8, 16, 31, 48, etc. Ez 42:9)) הָאֵלֶּה Gn 15:1 +. with preps.: בְּאֵלָּה Lv 25:54; 26:23 1 K 22:11 (7 times), בָּאֵלֶּה †1 S 16:10; 17:39; לְאֵלֶּה Lv 11:24 (4 times), לָאֵלֶּה 1 K 22:17 (5 times); מֵאֵלֶּה Gn 9:19 (16 times); עַד אֵלֶּה Lv 26:18; עַל־אֵלָּה on account of these things Is 57:6; 64:11 Je 5:9 al.; כְּאֵלֶּה †Jb 16:2 Je 10:16 = 51:19, כָּאֵלֶּה †Gn 27:46 Lv 10:19 (things like these, so Is 66:8 Je 18:13) Nu 28:24 P (cf. Ez 45:25) 2 K 25:17 = Je 52:22, כְּמוֹ־אֵלֶּה †Jb 12:3. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 84 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «אֵלֶּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/428/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Genesis 36:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.1/) וְאֵ֛לֶּה תֹּלְד֥וֹת עֵשָׂ֖ו ה֥וּא אֱדֽוֹם׃ *Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.accounts of.Esau that \[is\].Edom *JPS 1917:* Now these are the generations of Esau — the same is Edom. [Genesis 36:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.28/) אֵ֥לֶּה בְנֵֽי־דִישָׁ֖ן ע֥וּץ וַאֲרָֽן׃ *Word for word:* these \[were\].the.sons of.Dishan Uz and Aran *JPS 1917:* These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. - ← previous: [אַלָּה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/427.md) - next →: [אלה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5dc_5d4.md) - ↑ back to [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488-4.md)