אֵת
et
sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative
Aramaic equivalent: yat (יָת "whom" H3487)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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- Exodus 1:21 אֶת־
And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.
- Exodus 2:1 אֶת־
Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,
- Exodus 2:2 אֹתוֹ֙
and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.
- Exodus 2:3 אֶת־
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
- Exodus 2:5 אֶת־אֶת־
Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.
- Exodus 2:6 אֶת־
When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
- Exodus 2:7 אֶת־
Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
- Exodus 2:8 אֶת־
“Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
- Exodus 2:9 אֶת־אֶת־
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.
- Exodus 2:12 אֶת־
After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
- Exodus 2:14 אֶת־
But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”
- Exodus 2:15 אֶת־אֶת־
When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.
- Exodus 2:16 אֶת־
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
- Exodus 2:17 אֶת־
And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.
- Exodus 2:19 אֶת־
“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
- Exodus 2:20 אֶת־
“So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”
- Exodus 2:21 אֶת־
Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
- Exodus 2:22 אֶת־
And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
- Exodus 2:24 אֶת־אֶת־
So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Exodus 2:25 אֶת־
God saw the Israelites and took notice.
- Exodus 3:1 אֶת־אֶת־
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Exodus 3:3 אֶת־
So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
- Exodus 3:7 אֶת־וְאֶת־אֶת־
The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
- Exodus 3:9 אֶת־אֹתָֽם׃
And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
- Exodus 3:10 אֶת־
Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
- Exodus 3:11 אֶת־
But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
- Exodus 3:12 אֶת־אֶת־
“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”
- Exodus 3:16 אֶת־אֶתְכֶ֔םוְאֶת־
Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
- Exodus 3:17 אֶתְכֶם֮
And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
- Exodus 3:19 אֶתְכֶ֛ם
But I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him.
- Exodus 3:20 אֶת־אֶת־אֶתְכֶֽם׃
So I will stretch out My hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders I will perform among them. And after that, he will release you.
- Exodus 3:21 אֶת־
And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.
- Exodus 3:22 אֶת־
Every woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”
- Exodus 4:15 אֶת־אֶתְכֶ֔םאֵ֖ת
You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.
- Exodus 4:17 וְאֶת־אֶת־
But take this staff in your hand so you can perform signs with it.”
- Exodus 4:19 אֶת־
Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought to kill you are dead.”
- Exodus 4:20 אֶת־וְאֶת־אֶת־
So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
- Exodus 4:21 אֶת־אֶת־
The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
- Exodus 4:23 אֶת־אֶת־
and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”
- Exodus 4:25 אֶת־
But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
- Exodus 4:28 אֵ֛תוְאֵ֥ת
And Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and all the signs He had commanded him to perform.
- Exodus 4:29 אֶת־
Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites,
- Exodus 4:30 אֵ֚ת
and Aaron relayed everything the LORD had said to Moses. And Moses performed the signs before the people,
- Exodus 4:31 אֶת־אֶת־
and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
- Exodus 5:1 אֶת־
After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
- Exodus 5:2 אֶת־אֶת־אֶת־
But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
- Exodus 5:4 אֶת־
But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!”
- Exodus 5:5 אֹתָ֖ם
Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”
- Exodus 5:6 אֶת־וְאֶת־
That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:
- Exodus 5:8 וְאֶת־
But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
