אֵת
ʼêth · ayth
a hoe or other digging implement
Lexicon
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;
a hoe or other digging implement
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: coulter, plowshare.
Letters
- 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
5 occurrences · 5 OT · 0 NT · 4 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- into plowshares2 · 40%
- and his coulter1 · 20%
- and for the coulters1 · 20%
- your plowshares1 · 20%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.