הֵ֫מָּה
they
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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).
Grammatical forms
- Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 561 times (99%)
- Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Plural 3 times (1%)
- Preposition 1 time (0%)
- Particle, Relative 1 time (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 566 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 2 of 3 — showing verses 201–400 of 524 distinct verses where H1992 appears, across 35 books. 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.
2 Kings 38 verses
- 2 Kings 2:11 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both apart; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
- 2 Kings 4:5 הֵ֛ם pron pers 3mp So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out.
- 2 Kings 4:40 וְ/הֵ֣מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, man of God, there is death in the pot. They could not eat of it.
- 2 Kings 7:10 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.
- 2 Kings 8:23 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 9:18 הֵ֖ם pron pers 3mp So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus says the king, Is it peace? Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me. The watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he isn't coming back.
- 2 Kings 10:32 הָ/הֵ֔ם ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days Yahweh began to cut off from Israel: and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel;
- 2 Kings 10:34 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kings 12:5 וְ/הֵ֗ם conj + pron pers 3mp let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found.
- 2 Kings 12:15 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
- 2 Kings 12:19 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 13:8 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kings 13:12 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kings 13:21 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied a band; and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
- 2 Kings 14:15 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kings 14:18 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 14:28 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, [which had belonged] to Judah, for Israel, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kings 15:6 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 15:21 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kings 15:36 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 15:37 הָ/הֵ֔ם ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
- 2 Kings 16:19 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 17:29 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.
- 2 Kings 17:34 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp To this day they do after the former manner: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
- 2 Kings 17:40 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp However they did not listen, but they did after their former manner.
- 2 Kings 17:41 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their engraved images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they to this day.
- 2 Kings 18:4 הָ/הֵ֨מָּה֙ ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
- 2 Kings 19:18 הֵ֗מָּה pron pers 3mp and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
- 2 Kings 19:37 וְ/הֵ֥מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 20:1 הָ/הֵ֔ם ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live.
- 2 Kings 20:20 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 21:17 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 21:25 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 22:7 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp However there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.
- 2 Kings 23:28 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 24:5 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 25:23 הֵ֣מָּה הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
1 Chronicles 22 verses
- 1 Chronicles 1:31 הֵ֖ם pron pers 3mp Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
- 1 Chronicles 2:55 הֵ֚מָּה pron pers 3mp The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
- 1 Chronicles 4:23 הֵ֚מָּה pron pers 3mp These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work.
- 1 Chronicles 5:23 הֵ֥מָּה pron pers 3mp The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon.
- 1 Chronicles 8:6 הֵ֞ם pron pers 3mp These are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Manahath:
- 1 Chronicles 8:13 הֵ֚מָּה הֵ֥מָּה pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;
- 1 Chronicles 8:32 הֵ֗מָּה pron pers 3mp Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers.
- 1 Chronicles 9:18 הֵ֚מָּה pron pers 3mp who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.
- 1 Chronicles 9:22 הֵ֤מָּה הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.
- 1 Chronicles 9:23 וְ/הֵ֨ם conj + pron pers 3mp So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, by wards.
- 1 Chronicles 9:26 הֵ֗מָּה הֵ֖ם pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 9:27 וְ/הֵ֥ם conj + pron pers 3mp They lodged round about the house of God, because the charge [of it] was on them; and to them pertained the opening of it morning by morning.
- 1 Chronicles 9:38 הֵ֗ם pron pers 3mp Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers.
- 1 Chronicles 12:1 וְ/הֵ֨מָּה֙ conj + pron pers 3mp Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
- 1 Chronicles 12:15 הֵ֗ם pron pers 3mp These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
- 1 Chronicles 12:21 וְ/הֵ֗מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp They helped David against the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the host.
- 1 Chronicles 19:15 הֵ֗ם pron pers 3mp When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 21:3 כָּ/הֵם֙ prep + pron pers 3mp Joab said, Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? why does my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?
- 1 Chronicles 23:27 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward.
- 1 Chronicles 24:31 הֵ֨ם pron pers 3mp These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers' [houses] of the chief even as those of his younger brother.
- 1 Chronicles 26:6 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp Also to Shemaiah his son were sons born, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.
- 1 Chronicles 26:8 הֵ֤מָּה pron pers 3mp All these were of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service; sixty-two of Obed-edom.
2 Chronicles 18 verses
- 2 Chronicles 3:13 וְ/הֵ֛ם conj + pron pers 3mp The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
- 2 Chronicles 6:31 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 8:7 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;
- 2 Chronicles 8:9 הֵ֜מָּה pron pers 3mp But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
- 2 Chronicles 8:11 הֵ֔מָּה pron pers 3mp Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Yahweh has come.
- 2 Chronicles 9:11 כָ/הֵ֛ם prep + pron pers 3mp The king made of the algum trees terraces for the house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, and harps and psalteries for the singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 9:24 וְ/הֵ֣ם conj + pron pers 3mp They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
- 2 Chronicles 9:29 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren't they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
- 2 Chronicles 12:15 הֵ֨ם pron pers 3mp Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
- 2 Chronicles 15:5 הָ/הֵ֔ם ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great vexations were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
- 2 Chronicles 18:31 וְ/הֵ֤מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.
- 2 Chronicles 20:11 הֵ֔ם pron pers 3mp behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
- 2 Chronicles 22:4 הֵ֜מָּה pron pers 3mp He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
- 2 Chronicles 23:6 הֵ֥מָּה הֵ֑מָּה pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp But let none come into the house of Yahweh, save the priests, and those who minister of the Levites; they shall come in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the charge of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 28:23 הֵ֚ם וְ/הֵ֛ם pron pers 3mp conj + pron pers 3mp For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which struck him; and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 31:6 הֵ֗ם pron pers 3mp The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them by heaps.
- 2 Chronicles 32:24 הָ/הֵ֔ם ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.
- 2 Chronicles 34:16 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was committed to your servants, they are doing.
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 18 verses
- Nehemiah 1:10 וְ/הֵ֥ם conj + pron pers 3mp Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
- Nehemiah 2:13 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates of it were consumed with fire.
- Nehemiah 3:1 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel.
- Nehemiah 3:3 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp The fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build; they laid the beams of it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it.
- Nehemiah 3:6 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp The old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams of it, and set up the doors of it, and the bolts of it, and the bars of it.
- Nehemiah 3:13 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it, and one thousand cubits of the wall to the dung gate.
- Nehemiah 4:2 וְ/הֵ֥מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?
- Nehemiah 4:3 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.
- Nehemiah 6:2 וְ/הֵ֨מָּה֙ conj + pron pers 3mp that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
- Nehemiah 6:17 הָ/הֵ֗ם ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and [the letters] of Tobiah came to them.
- Nehemiah 7:3 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp I said to them, Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand [on guard], let them shut the doors, and bar you them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, and everyone [to be] over against his house.
- Nehemiah 7:61 הֵֽם pron pers 3mp These were those who went up from Tel-melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:
- Nehemiah 9:16 וְ/הֵ֥ם conj + pron pers 3mp But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and didn't listen to your commandments,
- Nehemiah 9:29 וְ/הֵ֨מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
- Nehemiah 9:35 וְ/הֵ֣ם conj + pron pers 3mp For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
- Nehemiah 10:37 וְ/הֵם֙ conj + pron pers 3mp and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
- Nehemiah 13:15 הָ/הֵ֡מָּה ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days saw I in Judah some men treading wine-presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading donkeys [therewith]; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold food.
- Nehemiah 13:23 הָ/הֵ֗ם ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
Esther 4 verses
- Esther 1:2 הָ/הֵ֑ם ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp that in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,
- Esther 2:21 הָ/הֵ֔ם ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those who kept the threshold, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.
- Esther 9:1 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have rule over them, (whereas it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over those who hated them),
- Esther 10:2 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
Job 4 verses
- Job 6:7 הֵ֝֗מָּה pron pers 3mp My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.
- Job 8:10 הֵ֣ם pron pers 3mp Shall they not teach you, tell you, And utter words out of their heart?
- Job 24:13 הֵ֤מָּה pron pers 3mp "These are of those who rebel against the light; They don't know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.
- Job 32:4 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.
Psalms 27 verses
- Psalms 9:6 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
- Psalms 9:20 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.
- Psalms 16:3 הֵ֑מָּה pron pers 3mp As for the saints who are in the earth, They are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
- Psalms 20:8 הֵ֭מָּה pron pers 3mp They are bowed down and fallen, But we rise up, and stand upright.
- Psalms 22:17 הֵ֥מָּה pron pers 3mp I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
- Psalms 23:4 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
- Psalms 25:6 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, For they are from old times.
- Psalms 27:2 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp When evil-doers came at me to eat up my flesh, Even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
- Psalms 37:9 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp For evildoers shall be cut off, But those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
- Psalms 38:10 הֵ֝֗ם pron pers 3mp My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
- Psalms 43:3 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
- Psalms 48:5 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed, They hurried away.
- Psalms 55:21 וְ/הֵ֣מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.
- Psalms 56:6 הֵ֭מָּה pron pers 3mp They conspire and lurk, Watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
- Psalms 59:15 הֵ֭מָּה pron pers 3mp They shall wander up and down for food, And wait all night if they aren't satisfied.
- Psalms 62:9 הֵ֝֗מָּה pron pers 3mp Surely men of low degree are just a breath, And men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
- Psalms 63:9 וְ/הֵ֗מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
- Psalms 78:39 הֵ֑מָּה pron pers 3mp He remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
- Psalms 88:5 וְ֝/הֵ֗מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp Set apart among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
- Psalms 94:11 הֵ֥מָּה pron pers 3mp Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.
- Psalms 95:10 הֵ֑ם וְ֝/הֵ֗ם pron pers 3mp conj + pron pers 3mp Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, And said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."
- Psalms 102:26 הֵ֤מָּה pron pers 3mp They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
- Psalms 106:43 וְ֭/הֵמָּה conj + pron pers 3mp Many times he delivered them, But they were rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their iniquity.
- Psalms 107:24 הֵ֣מָּה pron pers 3mp These see Yahweh's works, And his wonders in the deep.
- Psalms 109:28 הֵמָּה֮ pron pers 3mp They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, But your servant shall rejoice.
- Psalms 119:111 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, For they are the joy of my heart.
- Psalms 120:7 הֵ֝֗מָּה pron pers 3mp I am for peace, But when I speak, they are for war.
Proverbs 9 verses
- Proverbs 1:9 הֵ֬ם pron pers 3mp For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck.
- Proverbs 1:18 וְ֭/הֵם conj + pron pers 3mp But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
- Proverbs 4:22 הֵ֭ם pron pers 3mp For they are life to those who find them, And health to their whole body.
- Proverbs 18:8 וְ֝/הֵ֗ם conj + pron pers 3mp The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: They go down into a person's innermost parts.
- Proverbs 19:7 הֵֽמָּה pron pers 3mp All the relatives of the poor shun him: How much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
- Proverbs 26:22 וְ֝/הֵ֗ם conj + pron pers 3mp The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, They go down into the innermost parts.
- Proverbs 30:18 הֵ֭מָּה pron pers 3mp "There are three things which are too amazing for me, Four which I don't understand:
- Proverbs 30:24 הֵ֭ם וְ֝/הֵ֗מָּה pron pers 3mp conj + pron pers 3mp "There are four things which are little on the earth, But they are exceedingly wise:
- Proverbs 30:29 הֵ֭מָּה pron pers 3mp "There are three things which are stately in their march, Four which are stately in going:
Ecclesiastes 6 verses
- Ecclesiastes 1:7 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
- Ecclesiastes 3:18 שְׁ/הֶם הֵ֖מָּה ptcl rel + pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.
- Ecclesiastes 4:2 הֵ֥מָּה pron pers 3mp Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
- Ecclesiastes 7:29 וְ/הֵ֥מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 כָּ/הֵ֗ם prep + pron pers 3mp For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
- Ecclesiastes 12:12 מֵ/הֵ֖מָּה prep + pron dem mp Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Song of Solomon 2 verses
Isaiah 20 verses
- Isaiah 1:2 וְ/הֵ֖ם conj + pron pers 3mp Hear, heavens, And listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me.
- Isaiah 9:21 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Isaiah 24:14 הֵ֛מָּה pron pers 3mp These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Yahweh they cry aloud from the sea.
- Isaiah 30:7 הֵ֖ם pron pers 3mp For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.
- Isaiah 35:2 הֵ֛מָּה pron pers 3mp It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Yahweh, the excellency of our God.
- Isaiah 37:19 הֵ֗מָּה pron pers 3mp and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
- Isaiah 37:38 וְ/הֵ֥מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
- Isaiah 38:1 הָ/הֵ֔ם ptcl def.art + pron pers 3mp In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.
- Isaiah 44:9 הֵׄ֗מָּׄהׄ pron pers 3mp Those who fashion an engraved image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses don't see, nor know: that they may be disappointed.
- Isaiah 44:11 הֵ֖מָּה pron pers 3mp Behold, all his fellows shall be disappointed; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together.
- Isaiah 49:21 הֵֽם pron pers 3mp Then shall you say in your heart, Who has conceived these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?
- Isaiah 56:11 וְ/הֵ֣מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
- Isaiah 57:6 הֵ֥ם הֵ֖ם pron pers 3mp pron pers 3mp Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot; even to them have you poured a drink-offering, you have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?
- Isaiah 61:9 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed.
- Isaiah 63:8 הֵ֔מָּה pron pers 3mp For he said, Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely: so he was their Savior.
- Isaiah 63:10 וְ/הֵ֛מָּה conj + pron pers 3mp But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.
- Isaiah 65:23 הֵ֔מָּה pron pers 3mp They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.
- Isaiah 65:24 הֵ֥ם pron pers 3mp It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
- Isaiah 66:3 הֵ֗מָּה pron pers 3mp He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
- Isaiah 66:5 וְ/הֵ֥ם conj + pron pers 3mp Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy; but it is those who shall be disappointed.
Jeremiah 59 verses
- 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.
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:—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
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.
