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 32:23 אֶת־אֶת־
He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.
- Genesis 32:29 אֹת֖וֹ
And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.
- Genesis 32:31 אֶת־
The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
- Genesis 32:32 אֶת־
Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.
- Genesis 33:1 אֶת־
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
- Genesis 33:2 אֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־
He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
- Genesis 33:5 אֶת־אֶת־וְאֶת־אֶת־
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
- Genesis 33:11 אֶת־
Please accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.
- Genesis 33:19 אֶת־
And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
- Genesis 34:2 אֹתָ֜הּאֹתָ֛הּ
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
- Genesis 34:3 אֶת־
And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
- Genesis 34:4 אֶת־
So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
- Genesis 34:5 אֶת־
Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they returned.
- Genesis 34:7 אֶת־
When Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.
- Genesis 34:8 אֹתָ֛הּ
But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
- Genesis 34:9 וְאֶת־
Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.
- Genesis 34:12 אֶת־
Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
- Genesis 34:13 אֶת־וְאֶת־אֵ֖ת
But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
- Genesis 34:14 אֶת־
“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
- Genesis 34:16 אֶת־וְאֶת־
Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.
- Genesis 34:17 אֶת־
But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”
- Genesis 34:21 אֹתָ֔הּאֶת־וְאֶת־
“These men are at peace with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.
- Genesis 34:26 וְאֶת־וְאֶת־אֶת־
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
- Genesis 34:28 אֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֵ֧תוְאֶת־
They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.
- Genesis 34:29 וְאֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֵ֖ת
They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.
- Genesis 34:30 אֹתִי֒
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
- Genesis 34:31 אֶת־
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
- Genesis 35:2 אֶת־
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- Genesis 35:3 אֹתִי֙
Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
- Genesis 35:4 אֵ֣תוְאֶת־אֹתָם֙
So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
- Genesis 35:9 אֹתֽוֹ׃
After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
- Genesis 35:10 אֶת־
And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.
- Genesis 35:12 וְאֶת־אֶת־
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
- Genesis 35:15 אֶת־
Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
- Genesis 35:22 אֶת־
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
- Genesis 35:29 אֹת֔וֹ
Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- Genesis 36:2 אֶת־אֶת־וְאֶת־
Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
- Genesis 36:3 וְאֶת־
and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
- Genesis 36:4 אֶת־אֶת־
And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,
- Genesis 36:5 אֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־
and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 36:6 אֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֵת֙
Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.
- Genesis 36:7 אֹתָ֔ם
For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.
- Genesis 36:12 אֶת־
Additionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.
- Genesis 36:14 אֶת־וְאֶת־וְאֶת־
These are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah (daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon) whom she bore to Esau: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
- Genesis 36:24 אֶת־אֶת־
These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
- Genesis 36:35 אֶת־
When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.
- Genesis 37:2 אֶת־
This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
- Genesis 37:3 אֶת־
Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
- Genesis 37:4 אֹת֞וֹאֹת֑וֹ
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
- Genesis 37:5 אֹתֽוֹ׃
Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.