etsel · beside

What it means

etsel (אֵצֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “beside”.

Next to.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Beside, near.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Beside, next to: it marks closeness to a person or a place. It works as a preposition; with מִן, ‘from beside’.

• Beside a stone or an altar 1 Samuel 20:191 Kings 2:29
• Beside a person Nehemiah 8:4Genesis 39:15
• Lying beside someone Genesis 39:10
• Wisdom: “I was beside him” Proverbs 8:30

How we translate it

“Beside” 55 times, “near” 4, “next to” 1. It is a function word: it is rendered as the sentence requires. In the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife it recurs within a few verses: he would not “lie beside her”, and she says he “left his garment beside me” (Genesis 39:10-18).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• beside ×55
• near ×4
• next to ×1
• ram ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Leviticus×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×13
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×6
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×14
• Daniel×3
• Amos×1

• Genesis 39:10

  Though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her, to lie beside her, to be with her.

• Genesis 39:15

  When he heard that I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside.”

• Genesis 39:16

  She laid his garment beside her until his lord came home.

• Genesis 39:18

  But when I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.”

• Genesis 41:3

  And look, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, ugly in appearance and thin in flesh, and they stood beside the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

• Leviticus 1:16

  He shall remove its crop with its feathers and throw it beside the altar on the east side, into the place of the ashes.

• Leviticus 6:10

  The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on linen undergarments on his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes left when the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and put them beside the altar.

• Leviticus 10:12

  Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the grain offering that is left from the fire offerings of YHWH, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is a most holy thing.

• Deuteronomy 11:30

  Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the road of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanite who lives in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

• Deuteronomy 16:21

  You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah, any tree, beside the altar of YHWH your Elohim that you make for yourself.

• Judges 19:14

  So they passed on and went, and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

• 1 Samuel 5:2

  And the Philistines took the ark of Elohim and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it beside Dagon.

• 1 Samuel 17:30

  He turned from beside him toward another and spoke according to this word; and the people brought him back word according to the first word.

• 1 Samuel 20:19

  And on the third day you shall go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself on the day of the deed, and stay beside the stone of Ezel.

• 1 Samuel 20:41

  The boy went, and David rose from beside the south, and fell on his face to the ground and bowed down three times. And they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David wept more.

• 1 Kings 1:9

  And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fatted animals by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he invited all his brothers, the sons of the king, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.

• 1 Kings 2:29

  And it was told to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of YHWH, and there he was beside the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall upon him.”

• 1 Kings 3:20

  And she rose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me, while your servant was asleep, and laid him in her bosom, and her dead son she laid in my bosom.

• 1 Kings 4:12

  Baana son of Ahilud, Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth-shean, which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

• 1 Kings 10:19

  There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round at its back; and there were arms on this side and on that of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms.

• 1 Kings 13:24

  He went away, and a lion found him on the way and put him to death. And his corpse was thrown on the way, and the donkey was standing beside it, and the lion was standing beside the corpse.

• 1 Kings 13:25

  And there men were passing by, and they saw the corpse thrown on the way, and the lion standing beside the corpse; and they came and spoke of it in the city where the old prophet lived.

• 1 Kings 13:28

  He went and found his corpse thrown on the way, and the donkey and the lion standing beside the corpse; the lion had not eaten the corpse and had not mauled the donkey.

• 1 Kings 13:31

  And it happened after he had buried him, that he said to his sons, saying, “When I die, bury me in the tomb in which the man of Elohim is buried; beside his bones lay my bones.

• 1 Kings 20:36

  He said to him, “Because you have not listened to the voice of YHWH, look, as you go from me, the lion will strike you.” He went away from beside him, and the lion found him and struck him.

• 1 Kings 21:1

  And it happened after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard that was in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

• 1 Kings 21:2

  Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, so that it may be mine for a garden of vegetables, for it is near, beside my house; and I will give you in its place a vineyard better than it; or, if it is good in your eyes, I will give you silver, the price of it.”

• 2 Kings 12:9

  Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right as one enters the house of YHWH; and the priests who guarded the threshold would put there all the silver that was brought into the house of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 9:18

  There were six steps to the throne and a footstool of gold, attached to the throne, and arms on this side and on that side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms.

• 2 Chronicles 28:15

  Then the men who had been designated by name rose up and took charge of the captives; and all the naked among them they clothed from the spoil; they clothed them, gave them sandals, gave them food and drink, anointed them, led them on donkeys, all who stumbled, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, beside their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

• Nehemiah 2:6

  And the king said to me, with the queen sitting beside him, “How long will your journey be, and when will you return?” And it seemed good before the king, and he sent me, and I gave him a set time.

• Nehemiah 3:23

  After him Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After him Azariah the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ananiah, repaired beside his house.

• Nehemiah 4:3

  And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Even what they are building— if a fox goes up, it will make a breach in the wall of their stones.”

• Nehemiah 4:12

  It happened that when the Jews who lived beside them came, they said to us ten times, “From all the places where you turn, they will be on us.”

• Nehemiah 4:18

  And the builders, each had his sword girded at his waist, and they built; and the one who blew the horn was beside me.

• Nehemiah 8:4

  And Ezra the scribe stood on a tower of wood that they had made for this; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, at his right; and at his left Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, Meshullam.

• Proverbs 7:8

  passing through the street near her corner, and on the way to her house he marched,

• Proverbs 7:12

  now in the street, now in the squares, and beside every corner she lies in wait.

• Proverbs 8:30

  I was beside him, a master builder, and I was his delight day by day, playing before him at all times,

• Isaiah 19:19

  On that day there will be an altar to YHWH in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a standing stone beside its border to YHWH.

And 21 more times.