אֵת
et (H0854)
with
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# The Hebrew Word אֵת (et): A Marker of Connection The Hebrew word אֵת, transliterated as "et," functions as a preposition meaning "with" and appears 929 times throughout the Bible, making it one of the most frequently used words in biblical Hebrew. Its high frequency reflects its fundamental role in expressing relationships between entities and actions. The word serves to indicate accompaniment, association, or proximity between two elements within a sentence or clause. As a preposition of connection, אֵת operates across a range of contexts. It can denote physical accompaniment (being together with someone or something), social association (acting together with others), or instrumental means (doing something with a particular tool or method). This versatility in expressing different types of relationships makes it essential for constructing coherent Hebrew sentences and clarifying how various elements relate to one another within narratives, laws, and poetry. The sheer frequency of this word—appearing in roughly every passage of biblical text—underscores its grammatical necessity rather than its semantic weight. While אֵת rarely carries dramatic theological meaning on its own, it functions as a structural building block that allows biblical writers to express complex relationships and interactions. Understanding this word is foundational to parsing Hebrew sentences accurately, as it consistently signals the relational connections between the main elements of biblical discourse.
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The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”
After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—
Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
“Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”
Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.
God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
they made war with Bera, king of Sodom; Birsha, king of Gomorrah; Shinab, king of Admah; Shemeber, king of Zeboiim; and the king of Bela (also called Zoar).
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim
against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”
In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,
“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”
Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.
Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.
The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.
Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”
Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”
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