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)
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- Genesis 27:1 אֶת־
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
- Genesis 27:6 אֶת־
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
- Genesis 27:8 אֹתָֽךְ׃
Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.
- Genesis 27:9 אֹתָ֧ם
Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.
- Genesis 27:15 אֶת־אֶֽת־
And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.
- Genesis 27:16 וְאֵ֗ת
She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
- Genesis 27:17 אֶת־וְאֶת־
Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
- Genesis 27:27 אֶת־
So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
- Genesis 27:30 אֶֽת־
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
- Genesis 27:34 אֶת־
When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”
- Genesis 27:36 אֶת־
So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
- Genesis 27:37 וְאֶת־
But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
- Genesis 27:40 וְאֶת־
You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
- Genesis 27:41 אֶֽת־אֶת־
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
- Genesis 27:42 אֶת־
When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.
- Genesis 27:45 אֵ֣ת
until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
- Genesis 28:1 אֹת֑וֹ
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
- Genesis 28:3 אֹֽתְךָ֔
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
- Genesis 28:4 אֶת־אֶת־
And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
- Genesis 28:5 אֶֽת־
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
- Genesis 28:6 אֶֽת־אֹתוֹ֙אֹת֔וֹ
Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
- Genesis 28:9 אֶֽת־
Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
- Genesis 28:15 אֵ֥ת
Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
- Genesis 28:18 אֶת־אֹתָ֖הּ
Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,
- Genesis 28:19 אֶת־
and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
- Genesis 29:3 אֶת־אֶת־אֶת־
When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
- Genesis 29:5 אֶת־
“Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.
- Genesis 29:8 אֶת־
But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
- Genesis 29:10 אֶת־וְאֶת־אֶת־אֶת־
As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
- Genesis 29:11 אֶת־
Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
- Genesis 29:13 אֶת־אֵ֥ת
When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
- Genesis 29:18 אֶת־
Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
- Genesis 29:19 אֹתָ֣הּאֹתָ֖הּ
Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
- Genesis 29:20 אֹתָֽהּ׃
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
- Genesis 29:21 אֶת־
Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
- Genesis 29:22 אֶת־
So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.
- Genesis 29:23 אֶת־אֹתָ֖הּ
But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.
- Genesis 29:24 אֶת־
And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
- Genesis 29:27 אֶת־
Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
- Genesis 29:28 אֶת־
And Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
- Genesis 29:29 אֶת־
Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
- Genesis 29:30 אֶת־
Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
- Genesis 29:31 אֶת־
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
- Genesis 29:33 אֶת־
Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon.
- Genesis 29:35 אֶת־
And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
- Genesis 30:4 אֶת־
So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
- Genesis 30:9 אֶת־אֹתָ֛הּ
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
- Genesis 30:11 אֶת־
Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.
- Genesis 30:13 אֶת־
Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
- Genesis 30:14 אֹתָ֔ם
Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”