הוּא
he
also: she, it fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Pronoun
- A word standing in for a noun (“he,” “this,” “who”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1931 appears in the Book of Numbers — 76 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers
- Numbers 1:4 הֽוּא pron pers 3ms With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house.
- Numbers 5:6 הַ/הִֽוא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3fs "Speak to the children of Israel: When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty;
- Numbers 5:13 וְ/הִ֣יא וְ/הִ֖וא conj + pron pers 3fs conj + pron pers 3fs and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;
- Numbers 5:14 וְ/הִ֣וא וְ/הִ֖יא conj + pron pers 3fs conj + pron pers 3fs and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled:
- Numbers 5:15 ה֔וּא pron pers 3ms then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
- Numbers 5:18 הִ֑וא pron pers 3fs The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
- Numbers 5:28 הִ֑וא pron pers 3fs If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
- Numbers 5:31 הַ/הִ֔וא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3fs The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity."
- Numbers 6:8 ה֖וּא pron pers 3ms All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.
- Numbers 6:11 הַ/הֽוּא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.
- Numbers 6:20 הוּא֙ pron pers 3ms and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. This is holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
- Numbers 8:4 הִ֑וא pron pers 3fs This was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
- Numbers 9:6 הַ/ה֑וּא הַ/הֽוּא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
- Numbers 9:13 ה֨וּא הַ/הִ֖וא הַ/הֽוּא pron pers 3ms ptcl def.art + pron pers 3fs ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
- Numbers 10:32 הַ/ה֗וּא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh shall do to us, the same will we do to you.
- Numbers 11:3 הַ/ה֖וּא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms The name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt among them.
- Numbers 11:7 ה֑וּא pron pers 3ms The manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium.
- Numbers 11:30 ה֖וּא pron pers 3ms Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
- Numbers 11:32 הַ/ה֨וּא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- Numbers 11:34 הַ/ה֖וּא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms The name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
- Numbers 12:7 הֽוּא pron pers 3ms My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house:
- Numbers 13:18 הִ֑וא הוּא֙ ה֖וּא pron pers 3fs pron pers 3ms pron pers 3ms and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
- Numbers 13:19 הוּא֙ הִ֖וא הוּא֙ pron pers 3ms pron pers 3fs pron pers 3ms and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
- Numbers 13:20 הִ֜וא pron pers 3fs and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
- Numbers 13:24 הַ/ה֔וּא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
- Numbers 13:27 הִ֖וא pron pers 3fs They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
- Numbers 13:31 ה֖וּא pron pers 3ms But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
- Numbers 13:32 הִ֔וא pron pers 3fs They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
- Numbers 14:1 הַ/הֽוּא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
- Numbers 14:8 הִ֛וא pron pers 3fs If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
- Numbers 14:41 וְ/הִ֖וא conj + pron pers 3fs Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, seeing it shall not prosper?
- Numbers 14:45 הַ/ה֑וּא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
- Numbers 15:25 הִ֔וא pron pers 3fs The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin-offering before Yahweh, for their error:
- Numbers 15:30 ה֣וּא הַ/הִ֖וא pron pers 3ms ptcl def.art + pron pers 3fs But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is home-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
- Numbers 15:31 הַ/הִ֖וא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3fs Because he has despised the word of Yahweh, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.
- Numbers 16:7 ה֣וּא pron pers 3ms and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom Yahweh does choose, he [shall be] holy: you take too much on you, you sons of Levi.
- Numbers 16:11 ה֔וּא pron pers 3ms Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against Yahweh: and Aaron, what is he who you murmur against him?
- Numbers 16:40 ה֔וּא pron pers 3ms to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
- Numbers 18:9 ה֖וּא pron pers 3ms This shall be your of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.
- Numbers 18:16 הֽוּא pron pers 3ms Those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).
- Numbers 18:19 הִוא֙ pron pers 3fs All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.
- Numbers 18:23 ה֗וּא pron pers 3ms But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
- Numbers 18:31 הוּא֙ pron pers 3ms You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
- Numbers 19:9 הִֽוא pron pers 3fs A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering.
- Numbers 19:12 ה֣וּא pron pers 3ms the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
- Numbers 19:13 הַ/הִ֖וא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3fs Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purifies himself, defiles the tent of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.
- Numbers 19:15 הֽוּא pron pers 3ms Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
- Numbers 19:20 הַ/הִ֖וא הֽוּא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3fs pron pers 3ms But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
- Numbers 21:16 הִ֣וא pron pers 3fs From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
- Numbers 21:26 הִ֑וא וְ/ה֣וּא pron pers 3fs conj + pron pers 3ms For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
- Numbers 21:33 ה֧וּא pron pers 3ms They turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
- Numbers 22:3 ה֑וּא pron pers 3ms Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 22:4 הַ/הִֽוא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3fs Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
- Numbers 22:5 וְ/ה֥וּא conj + pron pers 3ms He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they abide over against me.
- Numbers 22:6 הוּא֙ pron pers 3ms Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.
- Numbers 22:12 הֽוּא pron pers 3ms God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.
- Numbers 22:22 הוּא֒ וְ/הוּא֙ pron pers 3ms conj + pron pers 3ms God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
- Numbers 23:6 ה֖וּא pron pers 3ms He returned to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
- Numbers 23:19 הַ/ה֤וּא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
- Numbers 24:24 ה֖וּא pron pers 3ms But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim, They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber; He also shall come to destruction.
- Numbers 25:15 הֽוּא pron pers 3ms The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.
- Numbers 26:9 הֽוּא pron pers 3ms The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against Yahweh,
- Numbers 27:3 וְ/ה֨וּא conj + pron pers 3ms Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.
- Numbers 27:21 ה֛וּא pron pers 3ms He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
- Numbers 32:4 הִ֑וא pron pers 3fs the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle.
- Numbers 32:10 הַ/ה֑וּא ptcl def.art + pron pers 3ms Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,
- Numbers 33:36 הִ֥וא pron pers 3fs They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh).
- Numbers 33:40 וְ/הֽוּא conj + pron pers 3ms The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 35:16 ה֑וּא pron pers 3ms But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:17 ה֑וּא pron pers 3ms If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:18 ה֑וּא pron pers 3ms Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:19 ה֥וּא ה֥וּא pron pers 3ms pron pers 3ms The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
- Numbers 35:21 ה֑וּא pron pers 3ms or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.
- Numbers 35:23 וְ/הוּא֙ conj + pron pers 3ms or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;
- Numbers 35:31 ה֥וּא pron pers 3ms Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:33 ה֥וּא pron pers 3ms So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
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The Hebrew word הוא centers on the idea of “he.” Translators differ — “that” in the King James Version, then “he” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. It turns up in 1,693 verses across 39 books, one of the most common footprint. First canonically at Genesis 2:11, it enters the text early. Beyond “he” it also covers “she” and “it” — see its full sense range. Dig into 1,693-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1931 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1,693
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1,693 distinct verses.
- 39 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 39 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #23
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 23 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1,693 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 164 verses 10%
- Leviticus 145 verses 9%
- Deuteronomy 109 verses 6%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1,693 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 777 verses · 46%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 560 verses · 33%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 356 verses · 21%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: That 5×, Same 4×, He 3×
- American Standard Version: Same 6×, That 6×, He 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: He 362×, That 358×, It 167×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He 601×, That 425×, It 330×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1931 across 36 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1931 across 37 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1931 across 1,421 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 110 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 449 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1931 across 1,992 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 38 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
23 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 23 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. an emph. he (she, it, they), sometimes equivalent to himself (herself, itself, themselves), or (especially with the art.) that (those):
- a. Gn 3:15 הוא ישׁופך ראשׁ he (𝔊 αὐτὸς) shall bruise thee as to the head (opp. to the foll. אתה thou), v 20 for she (and no one else) was the mother of all living (so often in causal sentences, where some emph. on the subject is desirable, as Ju 14:3 ψ 24:2; 25:15; 33:9; 91:3; 103:14; 148:5 Jb 5:18; 11:11; 28:24 Je 5:5; 34:7b Ho 6:1; 11:10: Dr 1 S 14, 18), 4:20 Adah bare Jabal הוא היה אבי ישׁב אהלים he (ἐκεῖνος) was the father of tent-dwellers, v 21; 10:8 he began to be a mighty one in the earth, 20:5 (αὐτός), Ju 13:5 Is 32:7; 33:22 2 K 14:7, 22, 25; Ho 10:2 he—the unseen observer of their thoughts and deeds (Che), 13:15b (he, the foe figured by the E. wind). (For its use thus in circ. clauses v. Dr§ 157, 160, 168, 169.) And where the predic. is a subst. or ptcp., Gn 2:11 הוּא הַסֹּבֵב … that is the one which encompasseth etc., v 13, 14 10:12 that is the great city. So in the explanatory notices, Gn 14:3 הוּא יָם הַמֶּלַח that is the salt sea, v 8 הוּא־צֹעַר that is Zoar, 36:1 + often e.g. Genesis 3:15
- b. pointing back to the subj. and contrasting it with something else: Gn 4:4 הבל גם־הוא Abel, he also … v 26; 10:21; 20:5 וְהִיא־גַם־הִוא and she, herself also said, Ex 1:10 + often e.g. Genesis 4:4
- c. appended alone to a verb (more rarely, but always with intentional emphasis), Ex 4:14 I know כי דבר ידבר הוא that he can speak, v 16 1 S 22:18 ויפגע הוא בכהנים and he (though none else would do it) smote the priests, 23:22 for one hath told me, עָרֹם יַעְרִם הוּא He can deal subtilly, Ez 12:12 (peculiarly), cf. Dr§ 160 n.: very rarely indeed to a noun Nu 18:23 הַלֵּוִי הוּא, Is 7:14 י׳ הוא, Est 9:1 (הֵמָּה) being probably all the exx. in the OT e.g. Exodus 4:14
- d. Gn 13:1 and Abram came up out of Egypt, הוּא וְאִשְׁתּוֹ himself and his wife, and all that he had, 14:15 הוּא וַעֲבָדָיו he and his servants, 19:30; so very often e.g. Genesis 13:1
- e. prefixed to a noun (very rare, and mostly late), Ex 12:42b Ez 3:8 & 33:8 הוּא רָשָׁע: to pr. names Ex 6:27 הוא משׁה ואהרן, 1 Ch 26:26 that Shelomoth, 27:6 2 Ch 28:22; 32:12 (diff. from 2 K 18:22), v 30; 33:23 Ezr 7:6: cf. הֵם Ne 10:38 (comp. in Syriac ܗܽܘ, Nö§ 227): cf. ψ 87:5 1 S 20:29. e.g. Exodus 12:42
- 2. It resumes the subj. with emph.:
- a. when the predic. is a verb (especially if it be separated from its subject by an intervening clause), Gn 15:4 but one that shall come forth out of thine own bowels, הוּא יִירָשֶׁ֑ךָ he shall be thy heir, 3:12 the woman whom thou gavest to be with me, הוא נתנה לי she gave to me, 24:7; 44:17 etc. Ju 7:4 2 S 14:19 (throwing stress on יוֹאָב) 1 Ch 11:20 Is 33:15–16; 34:16; 38:19; 47:10; 59:16; 63:5 Ho 7:8; often in Pr, as 10:18, 22, 24; 11:28; 13:13; 19:21; 22:9; 24:12; 1 S 1:13 (v. Dr), ψ 68:36. e.g. Genesis 15:4
- b. when the predic. is a noun, Gn 2:14 and the fourth river, הוּא פְרָת it was the Euphrates, v 19 9:18; 15:2; 42:6 וְיוֹסֵף הוּא הַשַּׁלִּיט and Joseph, he was the ruler etc.: in sentences of the type י׳ הוּא הָאֱלֹהִים, י׳ הוּא הַנִּלְחָם לָכֶם, י׳ הוּא נַחֲלָתְֽךָ, Dt 3:22; 4:35; 7:9; 10:9 Jos 13:14, 33 Is 9:14; 33:6 Ho 11:5 (in these cases, to avoid stiffness, it is convenient often to drop the pron. in translating, as ‘And the fourth river was the Euphrates:’ the pronoun, however, though it then corresponds to the substantive verb in English, does not really express it, the copula, as the exx. shew, being in fact understood. Sts. in AV the pron. is retained for emphasis, as Dt. ll. cc.) So e.g. Genesis 2:14
- c. after אֲשֶׁר in an affirmative sentence, Gn 9:3 all creeping things אֲשֶׁר הוּא־חַי which are living, Lv 11:39 Nu 9:13; 14:8; 35:31 אֲשֶׁר הוּא רָשָׁע לָמוּת who is guilty of death, Dt 20:20 1 S 10:19 Hg 1:9 Ru 4:15 +. (On 2, cf. Dr§ 199, with Obs.) e.g. Genesis 9:3
- 3. Where, however, the pron. follows the pred., its position gives it the minimum of emphasis, and it expresses (or resumes) the subject as unobtrusively as possible: thus
- a. Gn 12:18 why didst thou not tell me כי אשׁתך הוא that she was thy wife? 20:13; 21:13 כי זרעך הוא for he is thy seed, 31:20 because he told him not כִּי בֹרֵחַ הוּא, 37:3 + often (the opp. order rare and emph.: Gn 24:65 Dt 4:6; 30:20 Jos 10:2 1 K 2:22; 3:4; 21:2 Ho 2:4 ψ 45:12). e.g. Genesis 12:18
- b. resuming the subj., Gn 31:16 all the wealther which God hath taken etc., לנו הוא ולבנינו it is ours and our children’s, v 43 and all that thou seest, לי הוא it is mine (or, omitting the pronoun, as not required in our idiom, simply) is mine, 41:25 חלום פרעה אחד הוא the dream of Pharaoh is one, 48:5 (לי הם), Ex 3:5 for the place whereon thou standest, אַדְמַת קֹדֶשׁ הוּא it is holy ground, Nu 13:22; 21:26; Dt 1:17; Jos 5:15; 6:19; Jb 3:19 + often; Gn 23:15 ארץ … מַה־הִוא, so ψ 39:5 Is 41:22 (הֵנָּה); אַתֶּם … הֵמָּה (unusual) Zp 2:12. (In all such cases the predicate is not referred directly to the subject, but, the subject being made a casus pendens, it is resumed by the pron., and the pred. thus referred to it indirectly. By this means the sentence is lightened and relieved, especially if the subject consist of many words: in Gn 31:16 for instance, the direct form of predicate כִּי לָנוּ וּלְבָנֵינוּ כָּל־הָעֹשֶׁר אֲשֶׁר הִצִּיל אֱלֹהִים מֵאָבִינוּ would have been heavy and inelegant.) So e.g. Genesis 31:16
- c. after אֲשֶׁר in a negative sentence, Gn 7:2; 17:12 אֲשֶׁר לֹא מִוַּרְעֲךָ הוּא which is not of thy seed, Nu 17:5; Dt 17:15; 1 K 8:41 (cf. הֵמָּה 3 c). e.g. Genesis 7:2
- d. peculiarly, as the subject of לֹא, Je 5:12 לוֹא הוּא He is not; and as embracing its predicate in itself, Is 18:2, 7 a nation terrible מִן־הוּא (= מֵאֲשֶׁר הוּא) from (the time that) it was, Na 2:9 מִימֵי הִיא from the days that (st. c. Ges§ 130.4) it was, 2 K 7:7 they left the camp כַּאֲשֶׁר הִיא as it was (cf. כַּאֲשֶׁר הֵמָּה v 10). (On 3, cf. Dr§ 198, with Obs.) e.g. Jeremiah 5:12
- 4. It anticipates (as it seems) the subject viz.
- a. (rare) Ct 6:9 אַחַת הִיא יוֹנָתִי תַמָּתִי one is she, my dove my perfect one, Lv 25:11; Ez 11:15; 21:16, La 1:18 צַדִּיק הוּא י׳ (often so in NH); Ec 6:10 וְנוֹדָע אֲשֶׁר הוּא אָדָם and that which he, even man, is, is known (De Now); cf. 1 S 6:19 מִקְרֶה הוּא הָיָה לָנוּ an accident is it, (that) hath befallen us. (Cf. הֵמָּה 4 a.) e.g. Song of Solomon 6:9
- b. after pronouns—(α) 2 S 7:28 אַתָּה הוּא הָאֱלֹהִים Thou art he—God, ψ 44:5 אתה הוא מלכי thou art he—my king, Is 37:16; 43:25 (אנכי), 51:9, 10, 12; 52:6; Je 14:22; 29:23 Kt +; cf. Je 49:12 וְאַתָּה הוּא נָקֹה תִנָּקֶה and art thou he (that) shall be unpunished? (with change of pers. κατὰ σύνεσιν, cf. Ju 13:11; 1 Ch 21:17; Ez 38:17.) So Ew§ 297 b Müll § 499. But others, as GesThes Roo § 563 De Is 37:16; ψ 44:5, treat הוא as emphasizing the pronoun, ‘Thou, he, art God’ i.e. Thou and none else art God; ‘Thou (emph.) art my king.’ (β) מִי הוּא, sq. a ptcp. or subst. Gn 27:33 ψ 24:10 מִי הוּא זֶה מֶלֶךְ הַכָּבוֹד who is he, then—the king of glory? (according to others, as before, ‘Who (emph.), then, is the king of glory?’); sq. a verb Is 50:9 מִי הוּא יַרְשִׁיעֵנִי who is he (that) will condemn me? (al. ‘Who (emph.) will condemn me?’) Jb 4:7; 13:19; 17:3; 41:2 Je 30:21 (so with הֵנָּה Gn 21:29, הֵמָּה Zc 1:9; 4:5). (γ) זֶה־הוּא †1 Ch 22:1; Ec 1:17 (freq. in NH, where the two words coalesce into one זֶהוּ). On the analogous אֵלֶּה הֵם …, v. הֵמָּה 4 b (γ). (Cf. Dr§ 200, 201.) e.g. 2 Samuel 7:28
- 5. As an emph. predicate, of God, ‘I am He,’ i.e. I am He Who is (opp. to unreal gods, named in context, or to transitory world), the Unseen, yet Omni-present, and Self-consistent, Ruler of the world, †Dt 32:39 אֲנִי אֲנִי הוּא I, I am he, and beside me there is no God, Is 41:4 (v. Che) 43:10, 13 even from to-day I am he, 46:4; 48:12 ψ 102:28 (v. Che) thou art he, and thy years have no end (𝔊 usually ἐγώ εἰμι: in ψ σὺ δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς εἶ). So also, according to many, Jb 3:19, but is הוא a mere predicate of identity? v. rather 3 b. e.g. Deuteronomy 32:39
- 6. In a neuter sense, that, it (of an action, occurrence, matter, etc.)—
- a. Jos 2:21 כְּדִבְרֵיכֶם כֶּן־הוּא according to your words, so be it; Gn 42:14 הוא אשׁר דברתי that is what I said, Ex 16:23; Lv 10:3; 2 K 9:36; Jb 8:19 הן הוא משׂושׂ דרכו lo that (what has just been described) is the joy of his way, 13:16; 15:9; 31:28; Pr 7:23; Ec 2:1; 3:22; 9:9; Est 9:1b; similarly the fem. הִיא, Ju 14:4 they knew not כי מי׳ היא that it was from י׳, Nu 14:41; Jos 10:13; Is 14:24; ψ 77:10 חַלּוֹתִי הִיא it (this perplexity) is my sickness, Jb 9:22; Pr 18:13; Je 22:16; 2 Ch 25:20 Ec 3:13; ref. to זאת Am 7:6; ψ 118:23 Jb 5:27, זֹה Ec 2:24. (Where there is a predicate, the gender of this usually regulates the choice of m. or f.: hence הִוא Gn 34:14; Ex 8:15; Nu 15:25 (Ec 5:5) Dt 4:6 +.) e.g. Joshua 2:21
- b. affirming the presence or existence of something (rare): 2 K 18:36 = Is 36:21 כִּי מִצְוַת הַמֶּלֶךְ הִיא for it was the king’s command, saying etc., 1 S 20:33 (text dub.), Je 50:15, 25; 51:6, 11; Mi 2:3, perhaps Jb 32:8. Cf. Dr§ § 198–201. e.g. 2 Kings 18:36
- 7. With the art. הַהוּא, הַהִיא, הָהֵ֫מָּה, הָהֵם, הָהֵ֫נָּה: so regularly when joined to a subst. defined itself by the art.: Gn 2:12 הָאָרֶץ הַהִוא that land, 19:35 ובלילה ההוא and in that night, 21:22 בָּעֵת הַהִוא at that time, Dt 1:19 המדבר הגדול והנורא ההוא. Only four times does there occur the anomalous construction בַּלַּיְלָה הוּא Gn 19:33; 30:16; 32:23; 1 S 19:10. e.g. Genesis 2:12
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
m. הִיא f. (pl. m. הֵ֫מָּה, הֵם; fem. הֵ֫נָּה, הֵן [the latter only with prefixes]; see these words), pron. of the 3rd ps. sing., he, she, used also (in both genders) for the neuter, it, Lat. is, ea, id. (The א is not orthographic merely, but radical, being written on Moab. and Ph. inscriptions, though dropped in some of the later dialects. [In Heb. only Je 29:23 Kt, and in the prn. אֱלִיהוּ.] Moab. (MI 6.27) and Ph. (often) הא; Aramaic of Zinjirli הא, once הו (DHMInschr. von Sendschirli 55); 𝔗 הוּא, הִיא, Syriac ܗܽܘ, ܗܺܝ Arabic هُوَ, هِىَ (for hūʾa, hīʾa, WSG 104); Ethiopic ውእቱ, ይእቲ weʾĕtū, yeʾĕtī; perhaps also Assyrian šû, šî, himself, herself, suff. s̆u, ši, cf. demonstr. šuatu, šiati (v. KraetzschmarBAS i. 383 & reff., WSG 98, 105 Dl§ 55 b, 57). In the Pent., הוא is of common gender, the fem. form הִיא occurring only 11 times, viz. Gn 14:2; 20:5; 38:25 (v. Mass here), Lv 11:39; 13:10, 21; 16:31; 20:17; 21:9 Nu 5:13, 14. The punctuators, however, sought to assimilate the usage of the Pent. to that of the rest of the OT, and accordingly wherever הוא was construed as a fem. pointed it הִוא (as a Qrê perpetuum). Outside the Pent. the same Qrê occurs 1 K 17:15 Is 30:33 Jb 31:11a—prob. for the sake of removing gramm. anomalies: five instances of the converse change, viz. of היא to be read as הוּא, occur for a similar reason, 1 K 17:15 (וַתֹּאכַל הוּא־וָהִיא to be read as וַתֹּאכַל הִיא־וָהוּא, on account of the fem. verb) ψ 73:16 Jb 31:11b (כי הוא זמה והיא עָוֹן פלילים to be read as כי היא זמה והוא עון פלילים), Ec 5:8 1 Ch 29:16. The origin of the peculiarity in the Pent. is uncertain. It can hardly be a real archaism: for the fact that Arabic, Aramaic, & Ethiopic have distinct forms for masc. & fem. shews that both must have formed part of the original Semitic stock, and consequently of Hebrew as well, from its earliest existence as an independent language. Nor is the peculiarity confined to the Pent.: in the ms. of the Later Prophets, of a.d. 916, now at S. Petersburg, published in facsimile by Strack (1876), the fem. occurs written הוא (see the passages cited in the Adnotationes Criticae, p. 026). In Ph. both masc. and fem. ar alike written הא (CIS i. 1:9 מלך צדק הא, 1:13 מלאכת הא, 3:19 אדם הא, l:11 ממלכת הא, 93:2; 94:2), though naturally this would be read as hu’ or hi’ as occasion required. Hence, as 𝔊 shews that in the older Heb. MSS. the scriptio plena was not yet generally introduced, it is prob. that originally הא was written for both genders in Hebrew likewise, and that the epicene הוא in the Pent. originated at a comparatively late epoch in the transmission of the text—perhaps in connexion with the assumption, which is partly borne out by facts (cf. DeZKWL 1880, pp. 393–399), that in the older language fem. forms were more sparingly used than subsequently.)In usage הוּא (f. הִיא; pl. הֵ֫מָּה, הֵם, הֵ֫נָּה: v. הֵ֫מָּה is
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Origin: a primitive word
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
הוּא
- (b. h.) he, it; she; it is &c. Snh. III, 3 (24ᵇ) if he has no trade אלא הוא (Y. ed., Erub. 82ᵃ היא) except this (gambling &c.); יש לו אומנות שלא הוא (היא) if he has a trade besides this (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 80).—הוא—הוא, היא—היא it is the same, i.e. there is no difference between the two. Y. Ber. I, 3ᵇ היא היא both are equally precious. Gen. R. s. 9, end הוא מאד הוא אדם the word מאד has the same letters as אדם. Ber. 2ᵇ דילמא ביאת אורו הוא perhaps it is (means) the arrival of his day, v. אוֹר II; a. v. fr.—[Shebi. III, 8 עושה הוא; IV, 5 מכסה הוא, Y. ed. עוֹשֵׂהוּ, מְכַסֵּהוּ; ib. X, 6 מזכה הוא; Ms. M., Gitt. 37ᵃ מְזַכֵּהוּ.]—ולא היא but it is not so (it has a different reason &c.). Ber. 57ᵃ; a. fr.—כל שהוא (כל שהיא) a) whosoever, whatsoever (is). Peah II, 4 כל ש׳ אוכל whatever is eatable &c.; a. fr.—b) whatever it may be, a minimum, v. כָּל. Shebi. X, 6 כל שהוא; Gitt. l. c. כל שֶׁהוּ; a. fr.—ספר היא the Book Hi, name of a Pentateuch scroll in the Temple in which היא occurs nine times (for the archaic הִוא), whereas in others it appears eleven times (v. Ab. d’R. N. ch. XXXIV, ed. Schechter). Sifré Deut. 356; Y. Taan. IV, 68ᵃ bot.—הַהוּא, הַהִיא, mostly in Chald. diction, v. next w.—Pl. הֵם m., הֵן c. Ber. 2ᵇ והלא כהנים … הם טובלים but do not priests bathe &c.?—Meg. 14ᵇ רהמניות הן are compassionate. Ḥull. 127ᵇ הרי הן וכ׳ they are to be treated as if &c.; a. v. fr.—הן … הן are the same. Y. Ab. Zar. II, end, 42ᵃ, v. אִסְטַגְיוֹת.—With prep. מֵהֶם, מֵהֶן, לָהֶם &c.
הוּא ²
- , ch. same. Targ. Ex. I, 16; a. v. fr.—היא הדא, v. דָּא.—Y. Shebi. VII, 37ᶜ top בהוא אתר (R. S. to Shebi. VII, 3 בההוא אתרא) in the same place.—כל דהו whatsoever, v. preced. Arakh. 2ᵃ נפשות כל דהו human beings of any nature, v. כָּל.—Y. Kil. VI, 31ᵇ top כהיא דאמר וכ׳ (in Babli כי הא) as (that which) R. … said.—Pl. הֵן (perhaps only in Hebr. phrases); הִינוּן, הִינִין. Targ. Y. Ex. I, 10; Ib. 19 (O. אינ׳); a. fr.—With prefix ה: הַהוּא, הַהִיא. Targ. Y. Ex. XXI, 20; a. fr.—In Talmud frequ. used to introduce a case. Pes. 3ᵇ ה׳ ארמאה ד־ it occurred that a gentile &c. Keth. 78ᵇ ה׳ איתתא ד־ the case came up of a woman that &c.; a. v. fr.—ה׳ גברא, ה׳ איתתא frequ. euphemistically for myself, thyself (to avoid ominous speech or curse). Y. Maas. Sh. IV, 55ᵇ bot. אביו דה׳ ג׳ thy father. Ib.ᶜ top חמית ה׳ א׳ I saw; בעלה דה׳ א׳ thy husband; a. v. fr.—With prefix ד־: דהוא, דהיא, contr. דּוּ, דִּי, v. דְּ־ a. דּוּ.—With prefixed prep. בְּהוֹן, בּוֹן, לְהוֹן, לוֹן.
הֲוָא
- , v. הוי
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 149 distinct written forms H1931 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הֽוּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Amos 7:2 | 143 |
| ה֖וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Amos 2:9 | 125 |
| ה֣וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 1:36 | 124 |
| ה֥וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 10:4 | 93 |
| ה֔וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Amos 7:13 | 67 |
| הַ/ה֔וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Amos 8:3 | 66 |
| ה֑וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 8:26 | 56 |
| הַ/ה֖וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Amos 2:16 | 56 |
| הַ/ה֗וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Amos 8:9 | 50 |
| הוּא֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 14:8 | 48 |
| הַ/ה֑וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 13:3 | 39 |
| ה֚וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 10:17 | 37 |
| ה֗וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 8:18 | 33 |
| ה֤וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 30:20 | 33 |
| וְ/ה֣וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 10:21 | 32 |
| וְ/ה֥וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 9:3 | 32 |
| הִ֖יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ecclesiastes 3:21 | 31 |
| וְ/הוּא֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 11:8 | 30 |
| הִ֣יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Esther 2:14 | 29 |
| וְ/ה֖וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Exodus 21:4 | 28 |
| הִֽוא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 30:11 | 25 |
| הִ֥יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ecclesiastes 4:4 | 25 |
| הִ֑וא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 2:20 | 24 |
| וְ/הֽוּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Ezekiel 21:23 | 24 |
| הַ/הֽוּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 12:3 | 22 |
| הַ/הוּא֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 1:44 | 22 |
| הִ֔וא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 3:11 | 21 |
| הַ/הִ֖וא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 1:9 | 21 |
| ה֛וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 19:6 | 20 |
| הִיא֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Amos 7:6 | 19 |
| הוּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Amos 5:18 | 19 |
| הִ֖וא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 24:4 | 17 |
| הַ/ה֜וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Amos 8:13 | 16 |
| וְ/ה֤וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 29:13 | 16 |
| הִ֑יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ecclesiastes 5:6 | 14 |
| הִֽיא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Amos 5:13 | 14 |
| הַ/הִ֔יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | 1 Chronicles 21:28 | 14 |
| הַ/הִ֗יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | 1 Kings 19:8 | 14 |
| ה֭וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Job 8:16 | 13 |
| הַ/הִ֔וא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 2:34 | 13 |
| ה֧וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Amos 1:15 | 12 |
| הַ/הִ֑יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Daniel 12:1 | 12 |
| ה֝֗וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Job 17:3 | 11 |
| הִ֛יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 11:15 | 11 |
| הִ֔יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezra 9:11 | 10 |
| ה֜וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Exodus 12:27 | 9 |
| וְ/ה֛וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 4:42 | 9 |
| הִ֚יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 1:2 | 8 |
| הִוא֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 30:11 | 8 |
| הַ/ה֛וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Exodus 14:30 | 8 |
| הִ֗יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 11:11 | 7 |
| הִ֣וא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Genesis 14:7 | 7 |
| הִ֥וא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Exodus 22:27 | 7 |
| הַ/ה֡וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 13:5 | 7 |
| הַ/הִ֖יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Amos 5:13 | 7 |
| הַ/הִֽיא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezra 8:34 | 7 |
| הַ/הִיא֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Daniel 12:1 | 7 |
| וְ/הִ֖יא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ecclesiastes 7:23 | 7 |
| וְ֝/ה֗וּא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Job 21:22 | 7 |
| הִ֛וא | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Genesis 3:12 | 6 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 89 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1931, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1,619 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1,693 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:11
- Exodus 1:6
- Leviticus 1:13
- Numbers 1:4
- Deuteronomy 1:9
- Joshua 2:6
- Judges 1:26
- Ruth 1:1
- 1 Samuel 1:3
- 2 Samuel 2:16
- 1 Kings 1:6
- 2 Kings 1:8
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
