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2 Chronicles 8:6

“And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

אֵתʼêth · ayth
H853 · Hebrew
Definition
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
Derivation
apparent contracted from H226 (אוֹת) in the demonstrative sense of entity;
KJV renderings
(as such unrepresented in English).
Grammar
  • וְ — conjunction
  • אֶֽת — particle (direct object marker)
Code HC/To
Usage
Occurs 10,979 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:1Genesis 1:1Genesis 1:4Genesis 1:7Genesis 1:16

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אֵת here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.