1. אֵת
אֵת the mark of the accusative, prefixed as a rule only to nouns that are definite
The corpus record — Hebrew
אֵ֥ת
eth · T
mark of the accusative
Generated live from the audited Hebrew corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 10,979 · 357.87/10k
What it meant
2. אֵת
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
3. את
את (Gesenius-K. 1350) Ezr 103; metaph.: people Is 66g, נולד OY children yet to be born (cf. Ps 786 and nif. ברא and ;(היה —Job 11)2 rd. sa? :: Horst Hiob 165. pi. (Jenni 2100: inf. :ילְדְכֶם pt. M719", :מילְדות to help to give birth Ex 1,5 (Dam. 11, 13); pt. fem. midwife Gn 35,7 382g Ex 15-17-21, Ass. Muallid(a)tu = Ishtar (Baumgartner Umwelt 2974, cf. MbArtta fem. n. div. Herodotus 1:131, 199). + pu. … — [Koehler–Baumgartner, s.v. את, p. 58]
4. אֶת
אֶת Jr 51g Ezk 113 2017 (rd. OMS); כִּ' (TY) ג וְנְחַרְצָה decided annihilation (> 1 חר nif.) Is 1023 2822 Da 997, 26; Sir. 4019 the Flood (Sept.); —Gn 182; and Ex 11, rd. ? MD completely. f “the veiled one” (Brockelmann כלל זז כָּלֶה Lex. 327a :: Gesenius-B.); MHeb. daughter- — [Koehler–Baumgartner, s.v. אֶת, p. 123]
In the wild
- אֶת 1 Chronicles 10:10 (BHS)
- וְ/אֶת 1 Chronicles 10:10 (BHS)
- אֵ֛ת 1 Chronicles 10:11 (BHS)
- אֶת 1 Chronicles 10:12 (BHS)
- אֶת 1 Chronicles 10:12 (BHS)
- וְ/אֵת֙ 1 Chronicles 10:12 (BHS)
6 of 10,979 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.