אֵת

1. Of companionship, together with: 1 Mos 6,13 behold, I destroy them אֶתהָֿאָרֶץ together with the earth, 1 Mos 11,31; 1 Mos 12,4 + often, especially with verbs of dwelling, abiding, going, etc., as Dom 1,3; Dom 14,11; Dom 19,4, & in the phrase הָעָם אֲשֶׁר אִתּוֺ Dom 4,13; Dom 7,1; Dom 9,33; Dom 9,48; 1 Sam 14,20; 1 Sam 30,4 etc.; thou, and thy sons אִתָּֽךְ ׃ ֗֗֗ with thee 1 Mos 6,18 similarly (3rd person) 1 Mos 7,7; 1 Mos 7,13; 1 Mos 8,18; 1 Mos 9,8 and elsewhere (character of P: Dr^{Intr 124}); הִתְהַלֵּךְ אֶתהָֿאֱלֹהִים to walk with God, i.e. to have him as a companion (that is, by adopting a course of life pleasing to him) 1 Mos 5,22; 1 Mos 5,24; 1 Mos 6,9 (compare הִתְהַלֵּךְ אֵת literal 1 Sam 25,15); — by the side of, like Es 45,9, equally with 3 Mos 26,39, in common with Jer 23,28b (compare עִם 1 e, f). Hence, in particular —
\ \ a. with for the purpose of help: 4 Mos 14,9 אִתָּנוּ ׳וי, Jos 14,12 (אוֺתִי, as Jer 20,11) Dom 1,19; 2 Kong 6,16; 2 Kong 9,32 מִי אִתִּי מִי who is on my side, who ? כִּי אִתְּךָ אֲנִי Es 43,5; Jer 1,18; Jer 1,19 +; Es 63,3; Sl 12,5 our lips are with us, on our side; in the phrase אֵת ׳(הָֽיְתָה) יַד פּ 2 Sam 14,19; 2 Kong 15,19; Jer 26,24 נָשָׂא אֵת to bear together with, i.e. to assist 2 Mos 18,22; 4 Mos 11,17. Exceptionally, = with the help of: 1 Mos 4,1 for I have gotten a man ׳אֶתיֿ with the help of ׳י (compare עם 1 Sam 14,45) 1 Mos 49,25 (where, however, the parallelism, & ᵑ7 ᵑ6 ⅏ favour וְאֵל שַׁדַּי for וְאֵת שַׁדַּי) Mik 3,8 compare Est 9,29.
\ \ b. beside (German neben): 1 Mos 39,6 לֹא יָדַע אִתּוֺ מְאוּמָה he knew not with him, beside him, aught (i.e. Joseph managed everything), v1 Mos 39,8; 2 Mos 20,23 לֹא תַעֲשׂוּן אִתִּ֑י ye shall not make (aught) beside me.
\ \ c. beside = in the presence of (rare): 1 Mos 20,16b and before all thou shalt be righted, Es 30,8; Mik 6,1. In this sense ׳אֶתפְּֿנֵי פּ is more frequently, see below פָּנִים
\ \ d. of intercourse of different kinds with another, e.g. after verbs of making a covenant or contract, or (less often) of speaking or dealing: (α) 1 Mos 9,9; 1 Mos 15,18; 1 Mos 17,4 (Ezk 16,60; Es 59,21 -אוֺת) Jos 10,4; 1 Kong 3,1 etc.; compare 1 Sam 2,13 (but here הַכֹּהֵן מֵאֶתֿ is probably to be read with ᵐ5 ᵑ6 ᵑ7 Ke We etc., compare 5 Mos 18,3). (β) 1 Mos 17,3; 1 Mos 42,30 דִּבֶּר אִתָּנוּ קָשׁוֺת, 1 Kong 8,15; Sl 109,2, & especially in Jeremiah and Ezekiel (as Jer 1,16; Jer 4,12 [Jer 52,9 אִתּוֺ] Jer 5,5; Jer 12,1; Ezk 2,1; Ezk 3,22; Ezk 3,24; Ezk 3,27; Ezk 14,4; Ezk 44,5 — all -אוֺת); 1 Mos 24,49 to perform kindness אֵת (עִם is here more genl.), 2 Sam 16,17 זֶה חַסְדְּךָ אֶתרֵֿעֶךָ֑, Rut 2,20; וְאַתָּה עשֶֹׁה אִתִּי רָעָה, 5 Mos 1,30; 5 Mos 10,21; 1 Sam 12,7 b, (-אוֺת) Jer 21,2; Jer 33,9; Ezk 7,27; Ezk 16,59; Ezk 22,14; Ezk 23,25; Ezk 23,29; Ezk 39,24 absolute Ezk 17,17; Ezk 20,44; Sl 109,21; Sef 3,19 (γ) in a pregnant sense, (in dealing) with, i.e. towards (rare): Es 66,14; Sl 67,2 יָאֵר פָּנָיו אִתָּנוּ make his face to shine with (= toward) us (varied from אֶל 4 Mos 6,25) 5 Mos 28,8 faithful with Sl 78,8 (compare vSl 78,37 נָכוֺן עִם); Ezk 2,6 (אוֺתָ֑ךְ); Dom 16,15 וְלֹבְּךָ אֵין אִתִּי. (δ) often with verbs of fighting, striving, contending, as 1 Mos 14,2; 1 Mos 14,8; 1 Mos 14,9; 4 Mos 20,13; Es 45,9 a Es 50,8; Sl 35,1; Ord 23,11 with בָּא בְמִשְׁפָּט Sl 143,2 (Es 3,14 and elsewhere עִם).

2. Of localities, especially in the phrase אֲשֶׁר אֵת describing a site: Dom 3,19; Dom 4,11 אֲשֶׁר אֶתקֶֿדֶשׁ which is near Kedesh, 1 Kong 9,26; 2 Kong 9,27 (compare עם 2, which is commoner in this sense); Ezk 43,8; 2 Mos 33,21 הִנֵּה מָקוֺם אִתִּי. Perhaps, anomalously, 1 Sam 7,16 at or by all those places (but see Dr); in 2 Sam 15,23 עַלפְּֿנֵי דֶרֶךְ אֶתהַֿמִּדְבָּר, אֵת = towards is against analogue: read with ᵐ5L עַלפָּֿנָיו דֶּרֶךְ הַזַּיִת אֲשֶׁר בַּמִּדְבָּר; 1 Kong 9,25 אִתּוֺ beside it (that is, the altar); but עָלָיו 1 Kong 13,1 etc. would be idiomatic, & for אִתּוֺ אֲשֶׁר Klo proposes plausibly אֶתאִֿשֹּׁוֺ (see 2 Mos 30,20).

3. ׳אֵת פּ denotes specially,
\ \ a. in one's possession or keeping: 1 Mos 27,15; 1 Mos 30,29 thou knowest אֵת אֲשֶׁר הָיָה מִקְנְךָ אִתִּי ֗֗֗ how thy cattle fared with me, v1 Mos 30,33; 3 Mos 5,23; 3 Mos 19,13; 5 Mos 15,3; Dom 17,2; 1 Sam 9,7 מָה אִתָּנוּ = what have we ? 1 Sam 25,29; Es 49,4 my right is with Jehovah (contr. Es 40,27), Jer 8,8; Sl 38,11 the light of mine eyes also אֵין אִתִּי i.e. is gone from me, Ord 3,28; Ord 8,18 in his power, Jer 10,5 הֵיטֵיב אֵין אוֺתָם is not in their power, perhaps Sl 12,5. A dream, or the word of ׳י, is said to be אֵת with a prophet, 2 Kong 3,12; Jer 23,28; Jer 27,18. Metaph. of a mental quality, Ord 11,2; Ord 13,10.
\ \ b. in one's knowledge or memory: Es 59,12 פְּשָׁעֵינוּ אִתָּנוּ our transgressions are with us, i.e. present to our minds (|| וַעֲוֺנֹתֵינוּ יְדַעֲנוּם), Job 12,3 אֶתמִֿיאֵֿין כְּמוֺאֵֿלָּה with whom are not (i.e. who knoweth not ? τίς οὐ σύνοιδε;) things like these ? Job 14,5 אִתָּךְ i.e. known to thee, Ord 2,1; 1 Mos 40,14; Jer 12,3 (Ew Gf towards thee, as 1 d γ). So אִםיֵֿשׁ אֶתנַֿפְשְׁכֶם 1 Mos 23,8 [2 Kong 9,15 ׳נ alone], אֶתלְֿבָבְךָ 2 Kong 10,15. compare עם 4 b, which is more frequent in this sense.

4. מֵאֵת (מֵאִתִּי, etc.; also -מֵאוֺת) from proximity with (like Greek παρά with a genitive, From de chez; in Syriac, Arabic , corresponding synonym מֵעִם; see below): coupled almost always with persons (contrast מֵעִם, a). Thus
\ \ a. with קָנָה to buy 1 Mos 25,10 + often (compare 1 Mos 17,27); לָקַח 1 Mos 42,24; 2 Mos 25,2; 3 Mos 25,36; 4 Mos 17,17 + often; נָשָׂא Sl 24,5 שִׁלַּח, as 1 Mos 8,8 וַיְשַׁלַּח אֶתהַֿיּוֺנָה מֵאִתּוֺ and he sent forth the dove from with him 1 Mos 26,27 הָלַךְ 1 Mos 26,31; 1 Kong 18,12; 1 Kong 20,36; Jer 9,1, of a wife deserting her husband Dom 19,2 וַתֵּלֶךְ מֵאִתּוֺ, Jer 3,1 (compare Es 57,8); with simile words 1 Mos 38,1; 5 Mos 2,8; 1 Kong 11,23; Jer 2,37 (see 2 Mos 5,20); Es 54,10; Sl 66,20 with שָׁאַל Dom 1,14; 1 Kong 2,16; Sl 27,4 +, דָּרַשׁ 1 Kong 22,7 and elsewhere, שָׁמַע 1 Sam 2,23. — ׳מֵאֵת פְּנֵי פּ 1 Mos 27,30; 1 Mos 43,34; 2 Mos 10,11; Job 2,7; 3 Mos 10,4 (הַקֹּדֶשׁ), 2 Kong 16,14 (הַבַּיִת). Hence
\ \ b. of rights or dues, handed over from, given on the part of, any one: 1 Mos 47,22 חֹק מֵאֵת פַּרְעֹה; often in P, as 1 Mos 23,20; 2 Mos 27,21 a perpetual due מֵאֵת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל from, or on the part of, the children of Israel, 3 Mos 7,34 b 3 Mos 24,8; 4 Mos 3,9; 4 Mos 7,84 +; 5 Mos 18,3; 1 Sam 2,13 (ᵐ5, etc.; see 1 d) 2 Sam 15,3 וְשֹׁמֵעַ אֵיןלְֿךָ מֵאֵת הַמֶּלֶךְ but there is none to hear thee deputed of the king, 1 Kong 5,14.
\ \ c. expressing origination: 1 Kong 1,27 אִם מֵאֵת אֲדֹנִי הַמֶּלֶךְ נִהְיָה. Especially ׳מֵאֵת י — of a concrete object proceeding from him: 1 Mos 19,24 (brimstone), 4 Mos 11,31 (a wind), 4 Mos 16,35 (fire), 1 Sam 16,14 (evil spirit), Es 38,7 (a sign), Jer 51,53 (wasters), Mik 5,6 (dew); of wrath Zak 7,12 (compare 4 Mos 17,11), teaching Es 51,4, the word of prophecy Jer 7,1 (so Jer 11,1; Jer 18,1 + often in Jeremiah) Jer 37,17; Ezk 33,30 with 'have I (we) heard' Es 21,10; Es 28,22; Jer 49,14 (= Ob 1,1); of an event, or phase of history Jos 11,20 הָֽיְתָה ׳מֵאֵת י it came of ׳י to..., 1 Kong 12,24; Hab 2,13; Sl 118,23 הָֽיְתָה זאֹת ׳מֵאֵת י (ᵐ5 παρὰ Κυρίου) Ezr 9,8; Neh 6,16 of trouble (רָעָה) 2 Kong 6,33; Mik 1,12 (יָרַד); of a good or evil lot, having its source in ׳י Jer 13,25; Es 54,17; Sl 109,20, compare Job 2,10; Sl 22,26 מֵאִתְּךָ תְהִלָּתִי from thee cometh my praise (thou art the source of it); Es 44,24 Qr מֵאִתִּי of myself (compare ἀπ’ ἐμαυτοῦ Joh 5,30 Kt is מִי אִתִּי who was with me ?), Joh 54,15 אֶפֶס מֵאוֺתִי not at my instance (compare לֹא מִנִּי Joh 30,1, לֹא מִמֶּנִּי Hos 8,4).
\ \ d. of a place 1 Kong 6,33 (corrupt: read with ᵐ5 ᵑ6 ᵑ9 [partly] מְזוּזֹת רְבֻעוֺת, & compare Ezk 41,21).