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Jeremiah 5:22

“Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?” (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: הַ — particle (interrogative)
אוֹתִ֨ — particle (direct object marker)
י — suffix (pronominal), 1st person, common, singular
Code HTi/To/Sp1cs
Usage: Occurs 10,979 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:1 Genesis 1:1 Genesis 1:4 Genesis 1:7 Genesis 1:16

Theological interpretation (AI)

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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.