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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 ZMG1875, 240 (Neo-Punic) אלא ; in Plaut. Poen. see I. 9 transliterated ily; SchroedPhoenician Gr. p. 81, 160, 286 ff.)