at · gently, slowly

What it means

at (אַט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gently, slowly”.

Softly.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. With slow, gentle steps, without hurrying or hurting.
2. Those who mutter spells.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Gently ×3
• slowly ×2
• charmers ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Isaiah×2

• Genesis 33:14

  Please let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that is ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”

• 2 Samuel 18:5

  The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Gently, for my sake, with the young man, with Absalom.” And all the people heard when the king commanded all the commanders about Absalom.

• 1 Kings 21:27

  And it happened, when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted; and he lay in the sackcloth and went about slowly.

• Job 15:11

  Are too small for you the consolations of El, and a word spoken gently with you?

• Isaiah 8:6

  “Because this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah that go gently, and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

• Isaiah 19:3

  And the spirit of Egypt will be emptied out within it, and its counsel I will swallow up; and they will consult the idols and the charmers and those who call up the dead and the spiritists.