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[Michael Avraham <koufax1959 AT yahoo.com>]

1st Kings 8:38,33. Versus the non-use of el in 1st Kings 8:44,46.

                
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Dear Michael,

>Hello Mr. Holmyard,
>
>For example, in 1 Kings 8:29,35,38, it says "el-ha bait" and also 
>"el-ha maqom" to express the term, "toward this house" or "toward 
>this place". But, 1 Kings 8:48, the term "derech" is ued to indicate 
>the word "toward".
>
>"Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com> wrote:
>
>Dear Michael,
>
>>  I have a question about the preposition "el", aleph lamed, and
>>which means "to, toward". Can Biblical Hebrew prepositions, in this
>  >case "el" connect a verb to more than one noun?


I'm still not sure what your question is about, but in verse 48 there 
are multiple objects for the word DRK, not only "their land" but also 
"the city" and "the house." In verse 29 there are two occurrences of 
)L with one verb, but in fact the two are in apposition to one 
another.

One verb can take )L more than once to refer to two different nouns. 
I thought you were going to ask whether one preposition could take 
more than one object. I would think so, and DRK suggests as much. Of 
course, it is a noun, but it is functioning in 1 Kgs 8:48 as "in the 
direction of," so almost as a preposition. When this happens in 
poetry, we call it a "double duty preposition."

                                        Yours,
                                        Harold Holmyard