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Genesis 4:
With the help of
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Preposition
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among
Literal Standard Version:
NIV Genesis 30:
The word "help" is not in the Hebrew. Its sense is expressed by a simple preposition.1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.”
With the help of
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Preposition
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among
Literal Standard Version:
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges:And the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceives and bears Cain, and says, “I have acquired a man by YHWH”;
Eve thanked God for giving birth to a baby. It is a standard acknowledgment.the particle êth is rendered as a preposition in the sense of “in conjunction with,” and so “with the help of,” “by the means of.”
König, who holds an eminent position both as a commentator and as a Hebrew grammarian and lexicographer, has recently strongly defended the rendering of êth as a preposition meaning “with,” in the sense here given by the English version “with the help of” (see Z.A.T.W. 1912, Pt i, pp. 22 ff.). The words will then express the thanksgiving of Eve on her safe deliverance of a child. It is a pledge of Divine favour. Child-birth has been “with the help of the Lord.”
NIV Genesis 30:
Isaiah 44:22 Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.
A human soul is formed when a detached breadth of God enters a fetus' body.2a Thus says the LORD who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you.