הֵ֫מָּה
they
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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 Jeremiah — 59 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.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 2:11 וְ/הֵ֖מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
- Jeremiah 2:26 הֵ֤מָּה pron pers 3mp As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;
- Jeremiah 3:16 הָ/הֵ֨מָּה֙ ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.
- Jeremiah 3:18 הָ/הֵ֔מָּה ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.
- Jeremiah 4:22 הֵ֔מָּה הֵ֑מָּה הֵ֨מָּה֙ pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Jeremiah 5:4 הֵ֑ם pron pers 3mp Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God:
- Jeremiah 5:5 הֵ֗מָּה הֵ֤מָּה pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
- Jeremiah 5:10 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.
- Jeremiah 5:18 הָ/הֵ֖מָּה ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp But even in those days, says Yahweh, I will not make a full end with you.
- Jeremiah 6:28 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
- Jeremiah 7:4 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp Don't you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.
- Jeremiah 7:17 הֵ֥מָּה pron pers 3mp Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
- Jeremiah 7:19 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
- Jeremiah 9:16 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.
- Jeremiah 10:2 מֵ/הֵֽמָּה prep + pron pers 3mp Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.
- Jeremiah 10:5 הֵ֨מָּה֙ pron pers 3mp They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
- Jeremiah 10:15 הֵ֔מָּה pron pers 3mp They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Jeremiah 11:10 וְ/הֵ֣מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
- Jeremiah 11:12 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
- Jeremiah 12:6 הֵ֨מָּה֙ הֵ֛מָּה pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
- Jeremiah 14:14 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
- Jeremiah 14:15 וְ/הֵ֨מָּה֙ הָ/הֵֽמָּה conj + pron pers 3mp ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn't send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
- Jeremiah 14:16 הֵ֣מָּה לָ/הֵ֔מָּה הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp prep + pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them-them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them.
- Jeremiah 15:19 הֵ֨מָּה֙ pron pers 3mp Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.
- Jeremiah 16:20 וְ/הֵ֖מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?
- Jeremiah 17:15 הֵ֕מָּה pron pers 3mp Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.
- Jeremiah 17:18 הֵ֔מָּה pron pers 3mp Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
- Jeremiah 17:25 הֵ֚מָּה pron pers 3mp then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever.
- Jeremiah 19:4 הֵ֥מָּה pron pers 3mp Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
- Jeremiah 22:27 הֵ֛ם pron pers 3mp But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.
- Jeremiah 23:16 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 23:21 וְ/הֵ֣ם וְ/הֵ֥ם conj + pron pers 3mp conj + pron pers 3mp I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to them, yet they prophesied.
- Jeremiah 25:14 הֵ֨מָּה֙ pron pers 3mp For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
- Jeremiah 27:9 הֵ֞ם pron pers 3mp But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:
- Jeremiah 27:10 הֵ֖ם pron pers 3mp for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.
- Jeremiah 27:14 הֵ֖ם pron pers 3mp Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
- Jeremiah 27:15 וְ/הֵ֛ם conj + pron pers 3mp For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.
- Jeremiah 27:16 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
- Jeremiah 27:18 הֵ֔ם pron pers 3mp But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 29:9 הֵ֛ם pron pers 3mp For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 31:1 וְ/הֵ֖מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
- Jeremiah 31:29 הָ/הֵ֔ם ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
- Jeremiah 31:32 הֵ֜מָּה pron pers 3mp not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 31:33 הָ/הֵם֙ וְ/הֵ֖מָּה ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp conj + pron pers 3mp But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
- Jeremiah 32:32 הֵ֤מָּה pron pers 3mp because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 33:15 הָ/הֵם֙ ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
- Jeremiah 33:16 הָ/הֵם֙ ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is [the name] by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
- Jeremiah 36:32 כָּ/הֵֽמָּה prep + sfx pers 3mp Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides to them many like words.
- Jeremiah 40:7 הֵ֚מָּה pron pers 3mp Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon;
- Jeremiah 40:8 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit], Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
- Jeremiah 42:5 וְ/הֵ֨מָּה֙ conj + pron pers 3mp Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us.
- Jeremiah 44:3 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, that they didn't know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.
- Jeremiah 44:14 הֵ֜מָּה pron pers 3mp so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.
- Jeremiah 46:5 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 46:21 הֵ֧מָּה pron pers 3mp Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.
- Jeremiah 50:4 הָ/הֵ֜מָּה הֵ֥מָּה ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God.
- Jeremiah 50:20 הָ/הֵם֩ ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
- Jeremiah 50:42 הֵ֨מָּה֙ pron pers 3mp They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 51:18 הֵ֔מָּה pron pers 3mp They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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.
