Original Language Studio
Joshua 8:29
“And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
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
- אֶת — particle (direct object marker)
- 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.
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.