el marks direction or orientation toward a person, place, or stated destination in biblical clauses.

Across the supplied verses, this preposition marks a directed relation toward a person, place, or goal: people gather toward David, messages are spoken to named recipients, and objects or actions are directed to a destination.

1. Preposition marking direction or orientation · dominant

   The supplied forms are tagged simply as Preposition and link actions or speech with their target. In 1 Chronicles 11:1 the APB renders Israel gathering "toward David," while in 1 Chronicles 17:4 it renders the command, "Go and tell my servant David"; 1 Chronicles 13:12 similarly frames the ark's being brought "to me."

   1 Chronicles 11:11 Chronicles 17:41 Chronicles 13:121 Chronicles 19:21 Chronicles 21:221 Chronicles 29:18

In the Anselm Paraphrase: Because the APB is not word-aligned, it variously presents the preposition through wording such as "toward David," "to me," and "tell my servant David," and may absorb its contribution into the clause.