את (AΩ) – The Sign of the Eternal SelfEnglish · አማርኛ · العربية · বাংলা · Čeština · Deutsch · Ελληνικά · Español · فارسی · Français · Hausa · עברית · हिन्दी · Hrvatski · Magyar · Bahasa Indonesia · Igbo · Italiano · 日本語 · 한국어 · मराठी · Nederlands · Afaan Oromoo · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ · Polski · Português · Română · Русский · Српски · Svenska · Kiswahili · தமிழ் · ไทย · Türkçe · Українська · اردو · Tiếng Việt · Yorùbá · 中文

Strongs Definitions gives:

אֵת ʼêth, ayth; apparent[ly] contracted from H226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely):—[as such unrepresented in English].

It is a curious thing that James Strong gives the precise representation in English and then goes on to say that it is “unrepresented in English” but of course he means its apparent usage. This “apparent usage” was enough for scholars and translators of the Bible to literally wipe out over 10,000 instances of this word.

The fuller form H226 אות is the mark, or sign, as turning or spinning:

את Strong’s #853 et. This is has been called “the untranslatable mark of the accusative” but it has never been fully understood. It constitutes the first and last letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Surely there is a reason?

This mark has perplexed rabbis and scholars for ages as to its origins. Rabbi Akiva, a Jewish scholar of the 1st century AD, is known to have called it a “mark of the divine hand”.

The “O”

Revelation gives a hint to its meaning in the Greek: “I, Myself am the A and the Ω, the origin and the end…” (Revelation 1:8 RBT). The “O”? In the Greek the letter itself is given a definite article, “The O.” Why?

It’s About Her

This crucial word את occurs over 11,000 times, mostly in the Torah (nearly all deleted by translators). Hence, the Torah plays a central role in the eternal Life, the eternal Now, and the eternal Self. Not as a dispensation, not as old rules or regulations, but as a cast seed to be completed, consummated within the uttermost Day. But what does it all mean? There are actually several more meanings to ponder:

• את. Strong’s #854  is a meaning rendered “with” or “near”. #854 “with” is listed as occurring over 800 times. We are told it denotes “proximity” but what is particularly notable is that the #854 meaning “with” is always used with people (i.e. near-him) with a few rare exceptions to localities (i.e. with Kadesh). It is never used with objects (i.e. near-the tree).
• את. Strong’s #855  is a meaning rendered “plowshare” and “mattock.” This meaning is listed for only five instances.
• את. Strong’s #859  Last is the primary meaning “you/yourself” feminine singular. Interestingly, the feminine suffix is added to create the masculine singular אתה (atah) “you” but the same construct אתה also means “her” (yourself is herself, herself is yourself). This seems to follow the interesting pattern of the 2nd masculine singular verb construct “you are” being identical to the 3rd person feminine verb construct “she is” in the imperfect/incomplete form. Is it by design? And what kind of translation mishaps might this fact have caused?
  In other places with feminine nouns, the same word אתה (atah) apparently means the feminine “her/it.” If all of this is merely a matter of the language evolving via conventional usage then the word could be taken as a rather meaningless “particle” of no real relevance, and can be scratched out of the Bible as all translations have done. If it is merely an accusative marker, it is quite pointless as anyone can see the action of the verb in Genesis 1:1, “He created את the heavens and את the earth.” As if the reader wouldn’t understand what was created?

The sign representing her can be seen in the straightforward definition of את at as the feminine “you”:

Behold, now I have perceived a beautiful woman of sight of את…

Genesis 12:11 RBT

…daughter, who is את ?

And she is speaking toward himself, “A daughter of the House of God, Myself [אנכי].”

Genesis 24:23 RBT

The Hebrew אנכי (anoki) is what we might call the stand-alone “myself” or “myself” as there is already an emphatic אני (ani), which is a more typical “I” or “myself.” This also has caused some interesting translation mishaps.

While the masculine singular “you” (atah) is listed by morphologists as occurring over 1000 times. Only 50 times out of 11,000 occurrences is את at given the feminine singular “you.”