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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H681

אֵצֶל

etselay'-tsel

beside

61 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼêtsel

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H681is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 27
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H681

a side; (as a preposition) near

The King James renders it: at, (hard) by, (from) (beside), near (unto), toward, with. See also H1018 (בֵּית הָאֵצֶל).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

etsel is rendered "beside". It stands 61 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.

  • Fourteen of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 39:10Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-seven different ways.

The first use

Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.

Genesis 39:10אֶצְלָ֖הּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in fifteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 24 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • beside39
  • beside him4
  • beside me4
  • beside them3
  • beside her2
  • beside it2
  • from beside2
  • from beside him2
  • and beside1
  • from beside me1
  • from beside them1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 61, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

27 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • אֵ֣צֶל12
  • אֵ֖צֶל10
  • אֵ֥צֶל8
  • אֵ֚צֶל3
  • אֶצְלָ֑ם3
  • אֵ֨צֶל2
  • אֶצְל֗וֹ2
  • אֶצְלִֽי׃2
  • אֵ֤צֶל1
  • אֵ֗צֶל1
  • אֵ֙צֶל֙1
  • אֵֽצֶל־1

and 15 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)39HNcbsc
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular5HNcbsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4HNcbsc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3HNcbsc/Sp3fs
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3HNcbsc/Sp3mp
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncbsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HR/Ncbsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncbsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Ncbsc/Sp1bs
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncbsc/Sp3mp

Genesis

five uses
  • Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.

    Genesis 39:10

    • אֶצְלָ֖הּʾetzlahnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: beside her
  • When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

    Genesis 39:15

    • אֶצְלִ֔יʾetzlinoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: beside me
  • So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.

    Genesis 39:16

    • אֶצְלָ֑הּʾetzlahnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: beside her
  • but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

    Genesis 39:18

    • אֶצְלִ֖יʾetzlinoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: beside me
  • After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.

    Genesis 41:3

    • אֵ֥צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside

Leviticus

three uses
  • And he is to remove the crop with its contents and throw it to the east side of the altar, in the place for ashes.

    Leviticus 1:16

    • אֵ֤צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • And the priest shall put on his linen robe and linen undergarments, and he shall remove from the altar the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed and place them beside it.

    Leviticus 6:10

    • אֵ֖צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the offerings made by fire to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy.

    Leviticus 10:12

    • אֵ֣צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh?

    Deuteronomy 11:30

    • אֵ֖צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

    Deuteronomy 16:21

    • אֵ֗צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside

Judges

one use
  • So they continued on their journey, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.

    Judges 19:14

    • אֵ֥צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside

1 Samuel

four uses
  • carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.

    1 Samuel 5:2

    • אֵ֥צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.

    1 Samuel 17:30

    • מֵֽאֶצְלוֹ֙meetzlopreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from beside him
  • When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.

    1 Samuel 20:19

    • אֵ֖צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.

    1 Samuel 20:41

    • מֵאֵ֣צֶלmeetzelpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from beside

1 Kings

thirteen uses
  • And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.

    1 Kings 1:9

    • אֵ֖צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • It was reported to King Solomon: “Joab has fled to the tent of the LORD and is now beside the altar.” So Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down!”

    1 Kings 2:29

    • אֵ֣צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.

    1 Kings 3:20

    • מֵֽאֶצְלִ֗יmeetzlipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: from beside me
  • Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;

    1 Kings 4:12

    • אֵ֨צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, with a lion standing beside each armrest.

    1 Kings 10:19

    • אֵ֥צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

    1 Kings 13:24

    • אֶצְלָ֔הּʾetzlahnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: beside it
    • אֵ֥צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • And there were men passing by who saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported this in the city where the old prophet lived.

    1 Kings 13:25

    • אֵ֣צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.

    1 Kings 13:28

    • אֵ֣צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,

    1 Kings 13:31

    • אֵ֚צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • Then the prophet said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, as soon as you depart from me a lion will kill you.” And when he left, a lion found him and killed him.

    1 Kings 20:36

    • מֵֽאֶצְל֔וֹmeetzlopreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from beside him
  • Some time later, Naboth the Jezreelite happened to own a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

    1 Kings 21:1

    • אֵ֚צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.”

    1 Kings 21:2

    • אֵ֣צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside

2 Kings

one use
  • Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.

    2 Kings 12:9

    • אֵ֨צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • The throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, with a lion standing beside each armrest.

    2 Chronicles 9:18

    • אֵ֥צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

    2 Chronicles 28:15

    • אֵ֣צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside

Nehemiah

six uses
  • Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.

    Nehemiah 2:6

    • אֶצְל֗וֹʾetzlonoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: beside him
  • Beyond them, Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs in front of their house, and next to them, Azariah son of Maaseiah, the son of Ananiah, made repairs beside his house.

    Nehemiah 3:23

    • אֵ֥צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”

    Nehemiah 4:3

    • אֶצְל֑וֹʾetzlonoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: beside him
  • At that time the Jews who lived nearby came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

    Nehemiah 4:12

    • אֶצְלָ֑םʾetzlamnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: beside them
  • And each of the builders worked with his sword strapped at his side. But the trumpeter stayed beside me.

    Nehemiah 4:18

    • אֶצְלִֽי׃ʾetzlinoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: beside me
  • Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform built for this occasion. At his right side stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, and at his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

    Nehemiah 8:4

    • אֶצְל֡וֹʾetzlonoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: beside him

Proverbs

three uses
  • crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

    Proverbs 7:8

    • אֵ֣צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

    Proverbs 7:12

    • וְאֵ֖צֶלveetzelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and beside
  • Then I was a skilled craftsman at His side, and His delight day by day, rejoicing always in His presence.

    Proverbs 8:30

    • אֶצְל֗וֹʾetzlonoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: beside him

Isaiah

one use
  • In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near her border.

    Isaiah 19:19

    • אֵֽצֶל־ʾetzel-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside

Jeremiah

two uses
  • and I brought them into the house of the LORD, to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God. This room was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.

    Jeremiah 35:4

    • אֵ֙צֶל֙ʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, near Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt

    Jeremiah 41:17

    • אֵ֖צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside

Ezekiel

fourteen uses
  • When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.

    Ezekiel 1:15

    • אֵ֥צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • So as the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.

    Ezekiel 1:19

    • אֶצְלָ֑םʾetzlamnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: beside them
  • And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate, which faces north, each with a weapon of slaughter in his hand. With them was another man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. And they came in and stood beside the bronze altar.

    Ezekiel 9:2

    • אֵ֖צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • When the LORD commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.

    Ezekiel 10:6

    • אֵ֖צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • Then I looked and saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. And the wheels gleamed like a beryl stone.

    Ezekiel 10:9

    • אֵ֣צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
    • אֵ֚צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
    • אֵ֖צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.

    Ezekiel 10:16

    • אֶצְלָ֑םʾetzlamnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: beside them
    • מֵאֶצְלָֽם׃meetzlampreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from beside them
  • As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’

    Ezekiel 33:30

    • אֵ֣צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • As they pass through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will set up a pillar next to it, until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.

    Ezekiel 39:15

    • אֶצְל֖וֹʾetzlonoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: beside it
  • Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod deep.

    Ezekiel 40:7

    • מֵאֵ֨צֶלmeetzelpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from beside
  • While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple,

    Ezekiel 43:6

    • אֶצְלִֽי׃ʾetzlinoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: beside me
  • When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.

    Ezekiel 43:8

    • אֵ֣צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside

Daniel

three uses
  • I saw him approach the ram in a rage against him, and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against him, and the goat threw him to the ground and trampled him, and no one could deliver the ram from his power.

    Daniel 8:7

    • אֵ֣צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • As he came near to where I stood, I was terrified and fell facedown. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”

    Daniel 8:17

    • אֵ֣צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside
  • However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.

    Daniel 10:13

    • אֵ֖צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside

Amos

one use
  • They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

    Amos 2:8

    • אֵ֖צֶלʾetzelnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beside

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