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Jeremiah 7:19

“Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?” (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)
אֹתִ֛ — 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)

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

Verse 18 Verse 20

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.