Strong's Hebrew · H681
אֵצֶל
ʼêtsel · ay'-tsel
at, (hard) by, (from) (beside), near (unto), toward, with. See also H1018 (בֵּית הָאֵצֶל).
Definition
a side; (as a preposition) near
Derivation
from H680 (אָצַל) (in the sense of joining);
Appears 60 times in Scripture
“And the priest shall put on his linen robe and linen undergarments, and he shall remove from the altar the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed and place them beside it.”
“but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.””
“Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.”
“Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh?”
“So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.”
“And he is to remove the crop with its contents and throw it to the east side of the altar, in the place for ashes.”
“After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.”
“And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the food offerings to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy.”
“When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.””
“Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).