Strong’s H853 · Hebrew

אֵת
ʼêth
ayth

Definition

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

Etymology

apparent contracted from H226 (אוֹת) in the demonstrative sense of entity;

Where the KJV renders it

  • (as such unrepresented in English)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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