# H854 אֵת

אֵת (ʼêth), Strong’s H854: properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc. KJV: against, among, before, by, for, from, in(-to), (out)…

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*ʼêth* — properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc.

KJV: against, among, before, by, for, from, in(-to), (out) of, with. Often with another…

Derived from [אָנָה ʼânâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H579) (to approach)

Occurs 836 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֵת, prep. with—prep. denoting proximity
- 1 Of companionship, together with
- 2 Of localities
- 3 אֵת פּ׳ denotes specially
- a in one's possession or keeping
- b in one's knowledge or memory
- 4 מֵאֵת from proximity with Note. אֵת expresses closer association than עִם: hence while מֵעִם sts. denotes hardly more than from the surroundings or belongings of, מֵאֵת expresses from close proximity to.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 4:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=1) — The man knew Havah his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with the LORD’s…
- [Genesis 5:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/5?v=22) — After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and…
- [Genesis 5:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/5?v=24) — Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
- [Genesis 6:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=9) — This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah…
- [Genesis 6:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=13) — God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will…
- [Genesis 6:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=14) — Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
- [Genesis 6:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=18) — But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’…
- [Genesis 6:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=19) — Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They…
- [Genesis 7:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=7) — Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
- [Genesis 7:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=13) — In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with…