# H410 אֵל

אֵל (ʼêl), Strong’s H410: strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity) KJV: God (god), [idiom] goodly, [idiom] great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong…

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*ʼêl* — strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity)

KJV: God (god), [idiom] goodly, [idiom] great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare…

Derived from [אַיִל ʼayil](https://besorah.bible/word/H352) (strength)

Occurs 247 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֵל n.m. god, but with various subordinate applications to express the idea of might
- 1 applied to men of might and rank
- 2 angels
- 3 gods of the nations
- 4 Ēl
- 5 as characterizing mighty things in nature
- 6 God, the one only and true God of Israel
- 7 אֵל strength, power

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 14:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=18) — Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.
- [Genesis 14:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=19) — He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.
- [Genesis 14:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=20) — Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.
- [Genesis 14:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=22) — Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
- [Genesis 16:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=13) — She called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive…
- [Genesis 17:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=1) — When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me…
- [Genesis 21:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=33) — Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
- [Genesis 28:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=3) — May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
- [Genesis 31:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=13) — I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land…
- [Genesis 31:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=29) — It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that…