לְ־
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Meanings
Preposition
1. To; indicating a destination or end-point.
a. Indicating the destination of movement.
b. Indicating the second end-point of a range or interval.
2. To, for; corresponding to an English indirect object or a Latin dative.
a. Indicating the recipient of a transfer.
b. Indicating the addressee of an utterance.
c. Indicating the beneficiary of an action.
d. Indicating the person or thing affected by an action.
e. Introducing an ethical dative, especially after a verb of motion.
3. Of; indicating a possessor.
a. Used with a form of הָיָה (hayá).
b. Used with יֵשׁ (yesh) or (for non-possession) אֵין (en).
c. Used as a bare predicate, with no copula. (now rare, archaic)
d. Used with another verb, indicating the possessor of another object of the verb.
4. To, into; indicating a result.
a. Indicating the result of a transformation.
5. For, according to, in the opinion of; indicating the holder of a viewpoint, or the source of a claim.
6. Indicating the theme of an impersonal verb or other impersonal predicate.
7. Of; indicating the reference-point relative to which a direction may be specified.
8. Of, to, before: indicating the hour before which a number of minutes or fraction of an hour is specified.
9. Before: indicating the number of years before which a fraction of a year is specified. (by extension, slang)
Pronunciation
l'-
Examples16204
We're walking down [literally walking us in] the street.
I think [literally It seems to me] that it's too high.
Could you open the door for me?
They told us what happened.
They had [literally To them was] a problem.
They don't deserve it. [literally Not arrives to them.]