אֵלֶּה
ʼêlleh · H429 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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these, those
Marker identifying a set of multiple objects with a set that already exists in the mind of the hearers
ExamplesJeremiah 10:11 This is what you shall say to them: “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- הֵם hêm · H1992 · them
- הֵמָּה is an alternate form of הֵם, serving as the remote demonstrative 'those' contrasting with the proximal אֵלֶּה 'these' in the Hebrew demonstrative paradigm.
In the other Testament 2 words
- οὗτος hoûtos · G3778 · this, this one
- οὗτος is the standard Greek demonstrative pronoun corresponding to Hebrew אֵלֶּה, serving as the primary translation equivalent for 'these' in the LXX and functioning identically as a near demonstrative in its language.
- ταῦτα taûta · G5023 · this, this one, that is
- ταῦτα is the neuter plural form of οὗτος, directly equivalent to the plural demonstrative אֵלֶּה when referring to things rather than persons, and is the most common Greek rendering of this Hebrew demonstrative in biblical translations.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Identifiers004003
- Jeremiah 10:11 has the prophet declare, “the gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H429. elleh אֵלֶּה demonstrative pronoun plural these (Nabataean אלה (Lzb264 Cooke241),…
אֵלֶּה demonstrative pronoun plural these (Nabataean אלה (Lzb264 Cooke241), Cappadocian and Egyptian Aramaic אלה (LzbEph. i. 323 RÉS361A 3 S-CPap. E.13, Ki 13): probably therefore not, as used to be supposed, a Hebraism, but a peculiarity of the dialects of Jer 10:11 and of Ezra (in which the usually Aramaic form אִלֵּין does not occur) : see further אִלֵּין); — these, Jer 10:11; Ezr 5:15 Kt.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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