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H9005/לl
to/for
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Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
לְאֶחָ֑יו (לְ) le. “to”
for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."
לַאֲלֻמָּתִֽי׃ (לַ) la. “to”
His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
לוֹ֙ (ל) l “to <the>”
He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
לְאֶחָ֑יו (לְ) le. “to”לִֽי׃ (לִֽ) L “to <the>”
He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"
ל֔וֹ (ל֔) l “to <the>”לְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֹ֥ת (לְ) le. “to”לְךָ֖ (לְ) le. “to <the>”
His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
לִרְע֛וֹת (לִ) li “to”
Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."
ל֖וֹ (ל֖) l “to <the>”
He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
ל֗וֹ (ל֗) l “to <the>”
A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, "What are you looking for?"
לֵאמֹ֖ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”
He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."
לִ֔י (לִ֔) L “to <the>”
They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
לַהֲמִיתֽוֹ׃ (לַ) la. “to”
Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"-- that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
לַהֲשִׁיב֖וֹ (לַ) la. “to”
They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
לֶֽאֱכָל־ (לֶֽ) le. “to”לְהוֹרִ֥יד (לְ) le. “to”
Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.
לַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗ים (לַ) la “to the”
Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
לַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֖ים (לַ) la “to the”
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
לְנַחֲמ֗וֹ (לְ) le. “to”לְהִתְנַחֵ֔ם (לְ) le. “to”
The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
לְפֽוֹטִיפַר֙ (לְ) le. “to”
Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
לְעֵ֣ר (לְ) le. “for”
Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."
לְאוֹנָ֔ן (לְ) le. “to”לְאָחִֽיךָ׃ (לְ) le. “for”
Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
ל֖וֹ (ל֖) l “to <the>”לְבִלְתִּ֥י (לְ) le. “to”לְאָחִֽיו׃ (לְ) le. “to”
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
לְתָמָ֨ר (לְ) le. “to”
It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
לְתָמָ֖ר (לְ) le. “to”לֵאמֹ֑ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”לָגֹ֥ז (לָ) la. “to”
She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.
ל֖וֹ (ל֖) l “to <the>”לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ (לְ) le. “to”
When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
לְזוֹנָ֑ה (לְ) le. “to”
He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you:" for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
לִּ֔י (לִּ֔) L “to <the>”