Lexical Definition

‎אֵל‎ ʼêl (ale) these ^H:DemP
a demonstrative particle (but only in a plural sense)

these, those. Compare ‎אֵלֶּה‎.

• these or those

1) these, those

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎אֵל‎ pronoun plural masculine & feminine = the more usual ‎אֵלֶּה‎, these 1Chr 20:8 with article ‎הָאֵל‎ Gen 19:8; Gen 19:25; Gen 26:3; Gen 26:4; Gen 7:72; Deut 19:11. (Merely an orthographic variation of ‎אֵלֶּה‎, and doubtless pronounced similarly; the kindred dialects have in genl. a dissyllabic form: see below ‎אֵלֶּה‎. Written similarly in Phoenician, e.g. CIS Deut 3:22; Deut 14:5; Deut 93:3 (‎האל‎), but ZMG^{1875, 240} (Neo-Punic) ‎אלא‎; in Plaut. Poen. see I. 9 transliterated ily; Schroed^{Phoenician Gr. p. 81, 160, 286 ff.})

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