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 73 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 17:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the man’s wife took a covering, spread it over the mouth of the well, and scattered grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
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2 Samuel 17:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”
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2 Samuel 17:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one left who had not crossed the Jordan.
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2 Samuel 17:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
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2 Samuel 17:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David went to Mahanaim, and Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
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2 Samuel 17:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
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2 Samuel 18:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David reviewed his troops and appointed over them commanders of thousands and of hundreds.
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2 Samuel 18:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He sent out the troops, a third under Joab, a third under Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, “I will surely march out with you as well.”
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2 Samuel 18:5 · BSB · 4 occurrences
Now the king had commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, “Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake.” And all the people heard the king’s orders to each of the commanders regarding Absalom.
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2 Samuel 18:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
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2 Samuel 18:12 · BSB · 3 occurrences
The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’
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2 Samuel 18:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And ten young men who carried Joab’s armor surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.
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2 Samuel 18:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.
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2 Samuel 18:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.
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2 Samuel 18:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
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2 Samuel 18:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and tell the king the good news that the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.”
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2 Samuel 18:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“No matter what, I want to run!” he replied. “Then run!” Joab told him. So Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.
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2 Samuel 18:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.
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2 Samuel 18:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The watchman said, “The first man appears to me to be running like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “This is a good man,” said the king. “He comes with good news.”
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2 Samuel 18:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he bowed facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.”
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2 Samuel 18:29 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the king’s servant and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was.”
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2 Samuel 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”
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Source alternate reference: 19.5
2 Samuel 19:5 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.
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Source alternate reference: 19.6
2 Samuel 19:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
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Source alternate reference: 19.7
2 Samuel 19:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Absalom, the man we anointed over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about restoring the king?”
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Source alternate reference: 19.11
2 Samuel 19:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?
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Source alternate reference: 19.12
2 Samuel 19:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’
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Source alternate reference: 19.13
2 Samuel 19:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”
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Source alternate reference: 19.15
2 Samuel 19:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So the king returned, and when he arrived at the Jordan, the men of Judah came to Gilgal to meet him and escort him across the Jordan.
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Source alternate reference: 19.16
2 Samuel 19:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king
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Source alternate reference: 19.19
2 Samuel 19:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.
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Source alternate reference: 19.20
2 Samuel 19:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”
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Source alternate reference: 19.22
2 Samuel 19:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.
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Source alternate reference: 19.25
2 Samuel 19:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”
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Source alternate reference: 19.29
2 Samuel 19:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
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Source alternate reference: 19.30
2 Samuel 19:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”
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Source alternate reference: 19.31
2 Samuel 19:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim to cross the Jordan with the king and send him on his way from there.
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Source alternate reference: 19.32
2 Samuel 19:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
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Source alternate reference: 19.33
2 Samuel 19:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”
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Source alternate reference: 19.34
2 Samuel 19:35 · BSB · 2 occurrences
I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
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Source alternate reference: 19.36
2 Samuel 19:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your servant will go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?
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Source alternate reference: 19.37
2 Samuel 19:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”
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Source alternate reference: 19.38
2 Samuel 19:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”
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Source alternate reference: 19.39
2 Samuel 19:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and Barzillai returned home.
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Source alternate reference: 19.40
2 Samuel 19:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king crossed over to Gilgal, and Chimham crossed over with him. All the troops of Judah and half the troops of Israel escorted the king.
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Source alternate reference: 19.41
2 Samuel 19:41 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”
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Source alternate reference: 19.42
2 Samuel 19:43 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah spoke more fiercely than the men of Israel.
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Source alternate reference: 19.44
2 Samuel 20:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
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2 Samuel 20:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
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2 Samuel 20:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he took longer than the time allotted him.
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