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 30:15 אֶת־אֶת־
But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
- Genesis 30:20 אֹתִי֮אֶת־
“God has given me a good gift,” she said. “This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” And she named him Zebulun.
- Genesis 30:21 אֶת־
After that, Leah gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
- Genesis 30:22 אֶת־אֶת־
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
- Genesis 30:23 אֶת־
and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.
- Genesis 30:24 אֶת־
She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
- Genesis 30:25 אֶת־
Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
- Genesis 30:26 אֶת־וְאֶת־אֹֽתְךָ֛אֶת־
Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”
- Genesis 30:29 אֵ֖תוְאֵ֛ת
Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.
- Genesis 30:30 אֹתְךָ֖
Indeed, you had very little before my arrival, but now your wealth has increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I set foot. But now, when may I also provide for my own household?”
- Genesis 30:35 אֶת־וְאֵ֤ת
That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.
- Genesis 30:36 אֶת־
Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
- Genesis 30:38 אֶת־
Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
- Genesis 30:41 אֶת־
Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.
- Genesis 31:1 אֶת־אֵ֖תאֵ֥ת
Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
- Genesis 31:2 אֶת־
And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
- Genesis 31:5 אֶת־
and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.
- Genesis 31:6 אֶת־
You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
- Genesis 31:7 אֶת־
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
- Genesis 31:9 אֶת־
Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
- Genesis 31:12 אֵ֛ת
‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
- Genesis 31:15 אֶת־
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.
- Genesis 31:17 אֶת־וְאֶת־
Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,
- Genesis 31:18 אֶת־וְאֶת־
and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
- Genesis 31:19 אֶת־אֶת־
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
- Genesis 31:20 אֶת־
Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
- Genesis 31:21 אֶת־אֶת־
So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
- Genesis 31:23 אֶת־אֹת֖וֹ
So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
- Genesis 31:25 אֶֽת־אֶֽת־
Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.
- Genesis 31:26 אֶת־אֶת־
Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
- Genesis 31:27 אֹתִ֑י
Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
- Genesis 31:30 אֶת־
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
- Genesis 31:31 אֶת־
“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
- Genesis 31:32 אֶת־
If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
- Genesis 31:34 אֶת־אֶת־
Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
- Genesis 31:35 אֶת־
Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.
- Genesis 31:37 אֶת־
You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.
- Genesis 31:41 אֶת־
Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
- Genesis 31:42 אֶת־וְאֶת־
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
- Genesis 31:50 אֶת־
If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”
- Genesis 31:52 אֶת־אֶת־וְאֶת־
This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.
- Genesis 31:55 אֶתְהֶ֑ם
Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.
- Genesis 32:4 אֹתָם֙
He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.
- Genesis 32:7 אֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־
In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
- Genesis 32:10 אֶת־
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
- Genesis 32:11 אֹת֔וֹ
Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.
- Genesis 32:12 אֶֽת־
But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
- Genesis 32:17 אֶת־
He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’
- Genesis 32:19 אֶת־אֶת־אֶת־אֹתֽוֹ׃
He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.
- Genesis 32:22 אֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־אֵ֖ת
During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
