H853

אֵת

ʼêth · ayth

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

Lexicon

Derivation: apparent contracted from H226 (אוֹת) in the demonstrative sense of entity;

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.

KJV renderings: (as such unrepresented in English).

Letters

Alef

Tav

אAlef1
Picture: ox head
Concrete
ox · bull · cattle
Extended
strength · leader · first · the one in front
תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
Concrete
mark · sign · cross · signature
Extended
a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument

Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)

strength, the leader › the mark, the covenant sign

Strength, the leader of the mark, the covenant sign.

Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אֵת above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.

Usage

10946 occurrences · 10946 OT · 0 NT · 291 distinct forms

KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.

and2 · 9%
created1 · 5%
saw1 · 5%
knew1 · 5%
and bare1 · 5%
he begat1 · 5%
they served1 · 5%
will destroy1 · 5%
that they stript1 · 5%
behold, i have bought1 · 5%
and thou shalt teach1 · 5%
or that which was delivered1 · 5%
is, and they shall cast1 · 5%
and have tempted1 · 5%
against thee, but thou doest1 · 5%
they have forsaken1 · 5%
they have provoked1 · 5%
also1 · 5%
filled1 · 5%
neither will i tempt1 · 5%
he upon1 · 5%

Where it is used, by book.

Inflected forms found in the text.

אֶת־6245וְאֶת־1672אֶֽת־227אֵ֖ת171וְאֵת֙125אֵ֚ת120וְאֵ֖ת108אֹת֖וֹ105אֵ֣ת82אֵ֥ת81אֶתְכֶ֖ם81אֹתָ֖ם69

Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.