et H853

אֵת (et) means “[Obj.]” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

אֵת Hebrew · H853 10,936 tagged occurrences in 6,752 verses

Pronunciation guide: ayth Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0853

אֵת · et · [Obj.]

sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative Aramaic equivalent: yat (יָת "whom" H3487)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

apparent contracted from H226 (אוֹת) in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

KJV glosses: (as such unrepresented in English).

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How translators render H853

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
and	344
them	228
you	198
him	146
it	93
me	71
her	27
along with	26
together with	26
us	25
as well as	21
but	20
with	20
vvv	13
of	8
or	8
then	8
they were given	7
for	6
from	6
so	6
to you	6
about	5
including	5
its	5
to	5
to them	5
for you	4
moreover	4
the one	4
themselves	4
this	4
yet	4
however	3
the altar	3
the land	3
these	3
with them	3
against	2
also	2
and they	2
as well	2
back	2
before me	2
but me	2
down	2
for him	2
from it	2
from me	2
he also took	2
his body	2
in	2
jacob	2
joseph	2
of me	2
of them	2
on us	2
that	2
the captain	2
the gods of	2
the lamps	2
the lampstand	2
the man	2
they also	2
through him	2
to anger	2
to him	2
upon me	2
with her	2
with him	2
you up	2
aaron and his sons	1
additionally	1
after	1
against you	1
all of you	1
along with all	1
also killed	1
and also	1
and another	1
and he made	1
and let her	1
and of	1
and that	1
and that he	1
and the leading men	1
and their	1
and then	1
and these were the ones	1
and to fulfill	1
and unless	1
and using	1
and various	1
anything	1
as	1
before you	1
both	1
both he	1
both it	1
both of them	1
both you	1
but as for you	1
by	1
by helping them	1
down to	1
each of them	1
each with	1
except for	1
for her	1
for it	1
for them	1
had also	1
hates us	1
hebron	1
himself	1
his brothers	1
in addition	1
in addition to	1
in her	1
instead	1
into them	1
is the one	1
it up	1
itself	1
jeroboam	1
joash	1
known to you	1
later	1
loves	1
noah	1
nor	1
now	1
of abner	1
of it	1
of jabez	1
of leshem	1
of neah	1
of those	1
of whom we can inquire	1
of you	1
on behalf	1
on me	1
on the lampstand	1
on them	1
on you	1
out	1
sarai	1
so also	1
so that	1
such people	1
such things	1
that are	1
that city	1
that is	1
that you will be	1
the animal	1
the animals	1
the ark	1
the ark to gath	1
the basket	1
the descendants of	1
the egyptians	1
the grate	1
the heifer	1
the house of jeroboam	1
the israelites	1
the lambs	1
the stones	1
the zobaites	1
their	1
their forces	1
their needs	1
these cities	1
these garments	1
these lights	1
they were given gibeon	1
those	1
to me	1
to say	1
together	1
upon him	1
upon them	1
us out	1
when you	1
where	1
with their	1
with their corresponding	1
yes i will cause	1
you in	1
you out	1
you up out of	1
you want	1
your father	1
your numbers	1
your servant	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
and	2
against thee but thou doest	1
also	1
and bare	1
and have tempted	1
and they shall cast	1
and thou shalt teach	1
behold i have bought	1
created	1
filled	1
he begat	1
he upon	1
knew	1
neither will i tempt	1
or that which was delivered	1
saw	1
that they stript	1
the holy one	1
they have forsaken	1
they served	1
will destroy	1

Verses containing H853

Page 72 of 136. 6752 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

2 Samuel 13:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground. And all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
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2 Samuel 13:32 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
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2 Samuel 13:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, “I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill.”
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2 Samuel 14:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.
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2 Samuel 14:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
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2 Samuel 14:7 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
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2 Samuel 14:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”
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2 Samuel 14:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
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2 Samuel 14:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
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2 Samuel 14:16 · BSB · 3 occurrences
For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’
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2 Samuel 14:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
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2 Samuel 14:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
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2 Samuel 14:20 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”
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2 Samuel 14:21 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
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2 Samuel 14:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
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2 Samuel 14:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 14:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
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2 Samuel 14:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.
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2 Samuel 14:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
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2 Samuel 14:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Joab came to Absalom’s house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”
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2 Samuel 14:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Look,” said Absalom, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”
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2 Samuel 15:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.
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2 Samuel 15:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
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2 Samuel 15:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.
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2 Samuel 15:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying: ‘If indeed the LORD brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”
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2 Samuel 15:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”
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2 Samuel 15:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come from his hometown of Giloh. So the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom’s following kept increasing.
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2 Samuel 15:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”
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2 Samuel 15:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.
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2 Samuel 15:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In fact, you arrived only yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I do not know where I am going? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness.”
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2 Samuel 15:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”
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2 Samuel 15:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.
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2 Samuel 15:24 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Zadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had passed out of the city.
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2 Samuel 15:25 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.
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2 Samuel 15:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and stayed there.
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2 Samuel 15:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
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2 Samuel 15:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me if you return to the city and say to Absalom: ‘I will be your servant, my king; in the past I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant.’
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2 Samuel 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Where is your master’s grandson?” asked the king. And Ziba answered, “Indeed, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he has said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore to me the kingdom of my grandfather.’”
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2 Samuel 16:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He threw stones at David and at all the servants of the king, though the troops and all the mighty men were on David’s right and left.
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2 Samuel 16:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
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2 Samuel 16:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!”
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2 Samuel 16:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”
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2 Samuel 16:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.
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2 Samuel 17:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king
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2 Samuel 17:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Hushai came to Absalom, who told him, “Ahithophel has spoken this proposal. Should we carry it out? If not, what do you say?”
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2 Samuel 17:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.
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2 Samuel 17:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If he retreats to a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not even a pebble can be found there.”
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2 Samuel 17:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.
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2 Samuel 17:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, “This is what Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the elders of Israel, and this is what I have advised.
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2 Samuel 17:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.
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