Et עֵט

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Et (Hebrew עֵט, Strong's H5842) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “stylus”. It occurs 4 times in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) stylus
1a) iron stylus with diamond tip used to write on stone or metal
1b) reed pen used on a roll

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	pen (4)
BSB	stylus (2), is the pen (1), pen (1)

Every verse with Et, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Job 19:24
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

Psalm 45:1
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses to the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

Jeremiah 8:8
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).