- אל
- אֶל(b. h.; אול to turn) prep. to, toward.Pl., with prefix מ a. suffix of pers. pron., of itself, of my (his ) own accord, on my (his ) authority. Yoma 5b לא מֵאֵלַי not on my own authority. Orlah I, 2 העולה מֵאֵלָיו growing spontaneously.Y.Peah VII, 20b bot. its sacred character מֵאֵלָיו למדו they did derive from itself (i. e. from the wording of the law itself).Hence מִמֵּילָא, v. מֵילָא.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.