הֵ֫מָּה
they
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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”).
- Preposition
- A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
- Particle
- A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H1992 appears in the Book of Ezekiel — 60 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.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 2:3 הֵ֤מָּה pron pers 3mp He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.
- Ezekiel 2:5 וְ/הֵ֨מָּה֙ הֵ֑מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
- Ezekiel 2:6 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 2:7 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
- Ezekiel 3:6 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.
- Ezekiel 3:7 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart.
- Ezekiel 3:9 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 3:15 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
- Ezekiel 3:26 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 3:27 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 8:6 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall again see yet other great abominations.
- Ezekiel 8:9 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
- Ezekiel 8:13 הֵ֥מָּה pron pers 3mp He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do.
- Ezekiel 8:16 וְ/הֵ֛מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
- Ezekiel 10:16 הֵ֖ם pron pers 3mp When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn't turn from beside them.
- Ezekiel 10:20 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
- Ezekiel 10:22 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
- Ezekiel 11:7 הֵ֥מָּה pron pers 3mp Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 12:2 הֵֽם pron pers 3mp Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 12:3 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 12:10 הֵ֥מָּה pron pers 3mp Say you to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden [concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.
- Ezekiel 14:14 הֵ֤מָּה pron pers 3mp though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 14:16 הֵ֤מָּה pron pers 3mp though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
- Ezekiel 14:18 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.
- Ezekiel 14:20 הֵ֥מָּה pron pers 3mp though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
- Ezekiel 20:9 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 20:49 הֵ֚מָּה pron pers 3mp Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?
- Ezekiel 23:8 וְ/הֵ֥מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.
- Ezekiel 23:10 הֵמָּה֮ pron pers 3mp These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.
- Ezekiel 23:25 הֵ֗מָּה pron pers 3mp I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.
- Ezekiel 23:45 הֵ֚מָּה pron pers 3mp Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
- Ezekiel 25:4 הֵ֚מָּה וְ/הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp conj + pron pers 3mp therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.
- Ezekiel 27:8 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.
- Ezekiel 27:10 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your comeliness.
- Ezekiel 27:11 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls round about, and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields on your walls round about; they have perfected your beauty.
- Ezekiel 27:13 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.
- Ezekiel 27:17 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers: they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections, and honey, and oil, and balm.
- Ezekiel 27:21 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your merchants.
- Ezekiel 27:22 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
- Ezekiel 27:24 הֵ֤מָּה pron pers 3mp These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
- Ezekiel 31:17 הֵ֗ם pron pers 3mp They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
- Ezekiel 32:29 הֵ֛מָּה pron pers 3mp There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 33:17 וְ/הֵ֖מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
- Ezekiel 33:31 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
- Ezekiel 34:30 וְ/הֵ֗מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 36:7 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
- Ezekiel 37:11 הֵ֑מָּה pron pers 3mp Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
- Ezekiel 37:25 הֵ֠מָּה pron pers 3mp They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
- Ezekiel 37:27 וְ/הֵ֖מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Ezekiel 38:17 הָ/הֵ֖ם ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them?
- Ezekiel 40:46 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.
- Ezekiel 43:7 הֵ֤מָּה pron pers 3mp He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;
- Ezekiel 43:19 הֵם֩ pron pers 3mp You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin-offering.
- Ezekiel 44:11 הֵ֠מָּה וְ/הֵ֛מָּה pron pers 3mp conj + pron pers 3mp Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
- Ezekiel 44:15 הֵ֛מָּה pron pers 3mp But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:
- Ezekiel 44:16 הֵ֜מָּה וְ/הֵ֛מָּה pron pers 3mp conj + pron pers 3mp they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.
- Ezekiel 44:19 הֵ֨מָּה֙ pron pers 3mp When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.
- Ezekiel 44:24 הֵ֚מָּה pron pers 3mp In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.
- Ezekiel 44:29 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp They shall eat the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
- Ezekiel 47:12 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp By the river on the bank of it, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall the fruit of it fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters of it issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit of it shall be for food, and the leaf of it for healing.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
הם — transliterated hêm — is a Hebrew word carrying the sense “they.” Debuting at Genesis 3:7, it then recurs through the corpus. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 524 verses — among the most common. It shares a root with הלך, הוך and הלך. See the sense tree, 524-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1992 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 →
- 524
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 524 distinct verses.
- 35 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 35 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #88
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 88 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 524 occurrences in the concordance →
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 524 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 298 verses · 57%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 116 verses · 22%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 110 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: These 5×, They 5×, Them 4×
- American Standard Version: Them 4×, These 4×, They 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: They 256×, Those 40×, Are they 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: They 387×, Those 47×, Are 27×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1992 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 22 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 H1992 across 43 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 21 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 H1992 across 426 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 44 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 122 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1992 across 586 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
21 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 21 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.
- a. Gn 6:4; Ex 5:7 הֵם יֵֽלְכוּ let them (emph.) go and gather straw, Nu 31:16; Is 24:14; Ho 4:14; 7:3 etc.; after כִּי Je 5:5; 34:7. (For the use in circumst. clauses v. Dr§ 160, 169.) e.g. Genesis 6:4
- b. Ju 1:22 ויעלו … גַם הֵם, Dt 2:11 (אַף הֵם), 3:20; Jos 9:4; Ez 30:17. e.g. Judges 1:22
- c. Ex 18:22 every small matter יִשְׁפְּטוּ־הֵם let them judge themselves, v 26 Je 15:19; 17:18 ψ 109:28; Est 9:1. e.g. Exodus 18:22
- d. Gn 33:6; 44:3 Jud 6:5 etc. e.g. Genesis 33:6
- e. cf. Ne 10:38. e.g. Nehemiah 10:38
- 2.
- a. (Resuming the subj. with emph.) Gn 14:24 (note accents), Dt 1:39 ψ 23:4; 27:2 (accents), 37:9; 107:24; Ez 36:7; 44:15. e.g. Genesis 14:24
- b. Is 30:7; Ez 27:13, 17, 21; cf. Is 44:11. e.g. Isaiah 30:7
- c. Nu 14:27a Je 27:9; Ez 43:19 אֲשֶׁר הֵם מִזֶּרַע צָדוֹק, Ec 4:2; Ne 2:13.—הֵמָּה כִּדְוֵי לַחֻמִי Jb 6:7 read perhaps וַהֲמָה וגו׳ (or זָֽהֲמָה) it is loathesome (√ זהם). e.g. Numbers 14:27
- 3.
- a. Gn 3:7; Ex 5:8 כִּי נִרְפִּים הֵם for they are idle, 14:3; 15:23; 29:33 etc. (the opp. order rare: Nu 11:16 Is 61:9, cf. De ψ 94:11). e.g. Genesis 3:7
- b. Gn 34:21, 23; 41:26; 48:5 שׁני בניך … לִי הֵם thy two sons …, they are mine, Ex 32:16 + often: Is. 41:22 הָרִאשֹׁנוֹת מָה הֵנָּה, 49:21 אֵלֶּה אֵיפֹה הֵם these—where were they? Zp 2:12 after אַתֶּם, peculiarly (cf. Dr§ 198 Obs. 2). e.g. Genesis 34:21
- c. Dt 20:15 אֲשֶׁר לֹא־מֵעָרֵי הַגּוֹיִם הָאֵלֶּה הֵנָּה, Ju 19:12 1 K 9:20. e.g. Deuteronomy 20:15
- d. 2 K 7:10 כַּאֲשֶׁר הֵמָּה. (Pr 19:7 Kt לֹא־הֵמָּה is prob. corrupt: v. Comm.) e.g. 2 Kings 7:10
- 4.
- a. Pr 30:24 אַרְבָּעָה הֵם קְטַנֵּי־אָ֑רֶץ four things are they, the little ones of the earth, v 29 (cf. before a rel. clause v 15, 18; 6:16) Ct 6:8; Is 51:19 שְׁתַּיִם הֵנָּה קֹרְאֹתַיִךְ, 1 Ch 9:26 (v. הוא 4 a). e.g. Proverbs 30:24
- b. (β) Gn 21:29 מָה הֵנָּה שֶׁבַע … lit. What are they—these seven sheep? Zc 1:9; 4:5. (γ) אֵלֶּה … הֵם †Gn 25:16 (= 1 Ch 1:36) Lv 23:2; Nu 3:20, 21, 27, 33 1 S 4:8 1 Ch 8:6; 12:15 (v. Dr§ 201, 3). e.g. Genesis 21:29
- 6.
- a. In a neuter sense (rare), Jb 6:7 הֵמָּה כִּדְוֵי לַחְמִי they (i.e. such sufferings as mine) are as loathsomeness in my meat, Je 7:4 הֵיכַל י׳ הֵמָּה they (i.e. these buildings) are the temple of י׳; and in the fem., Lv 5:22 of all that a man doeth to sin בָּהֵנָּה therein, 1 Ch 21:10 מֵהֵנָּה (‖ 2 S 24:12 מֵהֶם); 2 S 12:8 Jb 23:14 כָּהֵנָּה things such as these. e.g. Job 6:7
- 7. With art. הָהֵם, Gn 6:4; Ex 2:11; Nu 14:38 + often; הָהֵמָּה 12 times (v. supr.); הָהֵנָּה †1 S 17:28. N.B.—Ez 8:6 Kt מָהֵם stands for מָה הֵם (so Qr), cf. מַזֶּה for מַה־זֶּה Ex 4:2; 2 K 9:18 עַד־הֵם is irreg. for עֲדֵיהֶם; 2 S 4:6 וְהֵנָּה וג׳ is textual error for וְהִנֵּה שֹׁעֶרֶת הַבַּיִת סֹקְלָה חִטִּים וג׳ v. We Dr (𝔊 & RVm). e.g. Genesis 6:4
- 8. With preps. (in lieu of the normal, and more usual, forms with suffixes בָּהֶם, לָהֶם, מֵהֶם etc. [כָּהֶם & כָּהֶן, however, each once only, כְּמוֹהֶם thrice: v. כְּ])—
- a. בָּהֵמָּה †Ex 30:4; 36:1 (both P), Hb 1:16; כָּהֵמָּה †Je 36:32; לָהֵמָּה †Je 14:16; מֵהֵמָּה †Je 10:2 Ec 12:12. e.g. Exodus 30:4
- b. כָּהֵם †2 S 24:3 Yahweh add to the people כָּהֵם וְכָהֵם מֵאָה פְעָמִים the like of themselves and the like of themselves 100 times, = 1 Ch 21:3 (but כָּהֵם here only once, cf. Dt 1:11 כָּכֶם), 2 Ch 9:11; Ec 9:12. e.g. 2 Samuel 24:3
- c. בָּהֵנָּה †Lv 5:22 (P) Nu 13:19 (JE) Je 5:17: כָּהֵנָּה †Gn 41:19 2 S 12:8 וְאֹסִפָה לְךָ כָּהֵנָּה וְכָהֵנָּה, Jb 23:14: לָהֵנָּה †Ez 1:5, 23(×2); 42:9; Zc 5:9: מֵהֵנָּה †Lv 4:2 (P) Is 34:16; Je 5:6; Ez 16:51; 42:5 ψ 34:21 1 Ch 21:10 (‖ 2 S 24:12 מֵהֶם). e.g. Leviticus 5:22
- d. בָּהֵן †Gn 19:29 (P) 30:26, 37 Ex 25:29; 37:16 (both P) Lv 10:1; 11:21; 14:40 Nu 10:3; 16:7 (all P) Dt 28:52; Jr 4:29; 48:9; 51:43(×2) (בָּהֶן thrice only, v. p. 88); כָּהֵן †Ez 18:14 (edd.; Baer כָּהֶן); לָהֵן (= therefore) †Ru 1:13(×2) (also Biblical Aramaic); מֵהֵן †Ez 16:47, 52 (edd.; Baer מֵהֶן). (With the exception of כָּהֵנָּה, these forms are found mostly in P and writers not earlier than Je.; b and d, however, depend solely on the punctuation.) e.g. Genesis 19:29
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
and הֵם (without appreciable distinction in usage, except prob. in so far as the longer or shorter form was better adapted to the rhythm of particular sentences: on the whole הֵמָּה (alone) is somewhat more freq. than הֵם, הָהֵם on the contrary is said regularly, הָהֵמָּה occurring only 12 times, viz. Nu 9:7 (P), Je 14:15 Zc 14:15, and in the phr. בַּ(הַ)יָּמִים הָהֵמָּה 2 K 18:4 Je 3:16, 18; 5:18; 50:4; Jo 3:2; 4:1; Zc 8:23; Ne 13:15, though בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם is much more common) pron. 3 pl. masc. (הֵמָּה used incorrectly for the fem. Zc 5:10; Ru 1:22; Ct 6:8), fem. הֵ֫נָּה [NH also הֵן, which occurs however in Bibl. Heb. only after a prefix: v. infr. 8], pr. 3 pl. they (Biblical Aramaic הִמּוֹ, q.v.; هُنَّ, هُمْ; Ethiopic (one form) እሙንቱ: እማንቱ: ʾemūn-tū, ʾemān-tū; cf. also for the dissyl. form, the sf. –ōmū [fem. –ōn]; perhaps also Assyrian suff. šunu, šina[ni], cf. reff. sub הוּא). In usage not different in genl. from הוּא, הִיא (which see, under the corresponding headings, for fuller explanations), thus:—
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Derived from הלך (hălak) (H1981) — to walk.
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.
הֵם
- m. pl. of הוּא.
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 95 distinct written forms H1992 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הֵ֣ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Esther 10:2 | 43 |
| הֵ֖מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 1:39 | 31 |
| הֵֽמָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 2:6 | 28 |
| הֵ֣מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 10:22 | 27 |
| הֵ֥ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ecclesiastes 1:7 | 26 |
| הֵ֖ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 2:11 | 23 |
| הֵ֥מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ecclesiastes 4:2 | 22 |
| הָ/הֵ֔ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Daniel 11:14 | 18 |
| הֵ֑ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Exodus 15:23 | 16 |
| הֵ֗מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 14:7 | 15 |
| הֵ֨מָּה֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 44:19 | 15 |
| הֵ֚מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 20:49 | 12 |
| הֵ֤מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 2:3 | 12 |
| הֵֽם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Exodus 18:26 | 12 |
| וְ/הֵ֖ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 1:39 | 12 |
| וְ/הֵ֖מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 25:4 | 12 |
| הֵ֑מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 32:28 | 11 |
| הֵ֔ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 3:20 | 10 |
| הֵ֔מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 32:20 | 10 |
| הֵ֜מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 11:30 | 9 |
| וְ/הֵם֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 33:3 | 9 |
| הֵ֗ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Exodus 6:27 | 8 |
| הֵ֛מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 32:29 | 8 |
| הָ/הֵ֑ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Daniel 10:2 | 8 |
| וְ/הֵ֣מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | 1 Kings 10:25 | 8 |
| וְ/הֵ֨מָּה֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 2:5 | 8 |
| הֵ֛ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | 2 Kings 4:5 | 7 |
| וְ/הֵ֥ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 9:29 | 7 |
| הָ/הֵֽם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 18:9 | 6 |
| וְ/הֵ֗מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 34:30 | 6 |
| הֵ֚ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 32:21 | 5 |
| הֵ֞ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Genesis 25:16 | 5 |
| הֵ֭מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Proverbs 30:18 | 5 |
| הֵם֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Hosea 4:14 | 5 |
| הָ/הֵ֗ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Exodus 2:11 | 5 |
| וְ/הֵ֥מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ecclesiastes 7:29 | 5 |
| הֵ֧מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Genesis 6:4 | 4 |
| הֵם֩ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Exodus 5:8 | 4 |
| הָ/הֵם֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 28:65 | 4 |
| וְ/הֵ֛מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 8:16 | 4 |
| הָ/הֵ֔מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Jeremiah 3:18 | 3 |
| הֵ֝֗מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Job 6:7 | 3 |
| הֵ֤ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 4:10 | 3 |
| הֵמָּה֮ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 23:10 | 3 |
| הָ/הֵ֨מָּה֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | 2 Kings 18:4 | 3 |
| וְ/הֵ֛ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | 2 Chronicles 3:13 | 3 |
| וְ/הֵ֣ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | 2 Chronicles 9:24 | 3 |
| וְ/הֵ֨מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | 2 Samuel 21:9 | 3 |
| וְ֝/הֵ֗ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Proverbs 18:8 | 3 |
| הָ/הֵ֖מָּה | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Plural | Joel 3:1 | 2 |
| הֵ֠מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 37:25 | 2 |
| הֵ֨ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | 1 Chronicles 24:31 | 2 |
| הֵ֭ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Proverbs 4:22 | 2 |
| וְ/הֵ֕מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Hosea 6:7 | 2 |
| וְ/הֵ֗ם | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Hosea 3:1 | 2 |
| וְ/הֵ֤מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | 1 Kings 22:32 | 2 |
| וְ֝/הֵ֗מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Proverbs 30:24 | 2 |
| בָ/הֵ֨מָּה֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Habakkuk 1:16 | 1 |
| בָּ/הֵ֔מָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Exodus 36:1 | 1 |
| בָּ/הֵֽמָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Exodus 30:4 | 1 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 35 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1992, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 483 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 524 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 3:7
- Exodus 2:11
- Leviticus 8:28
- Numbers 1:16
- Deuteronomy 1:39
- Joshua 1:15
- Judges 1:22
- Ruth 1:22
- 1 Samuel 3:1
- 2 Samuel 2:24
- 1 Kings 1:41
- 2 Kings 1:18
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.
