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Genesis 18:7
“And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
אֵלʼêl · ale
H413 · Hebrew
H413 · Hebrew
- Definition
- near, with or among; often in general, to
- Derivation
- (but only used in the shortened constructive form אֶל ); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e.
- KJV renderings
- about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, [idiom] hath, in(-to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- אֶל — preposition
- Usage
- Occurs 5,516 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:9Genesis 2:19Genesis 2:22Genesis 3:1Genesis 3:2
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אֵל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.