Original Language Studio
Nehemiah 10:37
“And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.” (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.