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Strong's #5842: `et (pronounced ate)

from 5860 (contracted) in the sense of swooping, i.e. side-long stroke; a stylus or marking stick:--pen.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛êṭ

1) stylus

1a) iron stylus with diamond tip used to write on stone or metal

1b) reed pen used on a roll

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H5860 (contracted) in the sense of swooping, i.e. side-long stroke



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Job 19:24: "That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!"
Psalms 45:1: "of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer."
Jeremiah 8:8: "certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain."
Jeremiah 17:1: "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven"









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