I. אֵל pronoun plural masculine & feminine = the more usual אֵלֶּה, these 1 Chronicles 20:8; with article הָאֵל Genesis 19:8; Genesis 19:25; Genesis 26:3; Genesis 26:4; Leviticus 18:27; Deuteronomy 4:42; Deuteronomy 7:72; Deuteronomy 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 Deuteronomy 3:22; Deuteronomy 14:5; Deut 93:3(האל), but ZMG^{1875, 240} (Neo-Punic) אלא; in Plaut. Poen. see I. 9 transliterated ily; Schroed^{Phoenician Gr. p. 81, 160, 286 ff.})