זֹאת
this
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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”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2063 appears in the Book of 2 Samuel — 22 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.
2 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 1:17 הַ/זֹּ֑את ptcl def.art + pron dem fs David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
- 2 Samuel 2:6 הַ/זֹּ֔את ptcl def.art + pron dem fs Now Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because you have done this thing.
- 2 Samuel 6:22 מִ/זֹּ֔את prep + pron dem fs I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own sight: but of the handmaids of whom you have spoken, they shall honor me.
- 2 Samuel 7:19 זֹ֤את וְ/זֹ֛את pron dem fs conj + pron dem fs This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, Lord Yahweh!
- 2 Samuel 7:21 הַ/זֹּ֑את ptcl def.art + pron dem fs For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
- 2 Samuel 7:27 הַ/זֹּֽאת ptcl def.art + pron dem fs For you, Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, I will build you a house: therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
- 2 Samuel 7:28 הַ/זֹּֽאת ptcl def.art + pron dem fs Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant:
- 2 Samuel 11:3 זֹאת֙ pron dem fs David send and inquired after the woman. One said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
- 2 Samuel 12:5 זֹֽאת pron dem fs David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is worthy to die!
- 2 Samuel 12:11 הַ/זֹּֽאת ptcl def.art + pron dem fs This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
- 2 Samuel 13:12 הַ/זֹּֽאת ptcl def.art + pron dem fs She answered him, No, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don't you do this folly.
- 2 Samuel 13:16 הַ/זֹּ֔את ptcl def.art + pron dem fs She said to him, Not so, because this great wrong in putting me forth is [worse] than the other that you did to me. But he would not listen to her.
- 2 Samuel 13:17 זֹ֛את pron dem fs Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
- 2 Samuel 14:13 כָּ/זֹ֖את prep + pron dem fs The woman said, Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.
- 2 Samuel 14:19 זֹ֑את pron dem fs The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;
- 2 Samuel 17:7 הַ/זֹּֽאת ptcl def.art + pron dem fs Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.
- 2 Samuel 17:15 כָּ/זֹ֣את וְ/כָ/זֹ֗את וְ/כָ/זֹ֥את וְ/כָ/זֹ֖את prep + pron dem fs conj + prep + pron dem fs conj + prep + pron dem fs conj + prep + pron dem fs Then said Hushai to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counseled.
- 2 Samuel 19:7 זֹ֗את pron dem fs Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go forth, there will not stay a man with you this night: and that will be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.
- 2 Samuel 19:21 זֹ֔את pron dem fs But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed?
- 2 Samuel 19:36 הַ/זֹּֽאת ptcl def.art + pron dem fs Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
- 2 Samuel 22:1 הַ/זֹּ֑את ptcl def.art + pron dem fs David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
- 2 Samuel 23:17 זֹ֗את pron dem fs He said, Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this: [shall I drink] the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
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.
The Hebrew word זאת centers on the idea of “this.” Lexicons map it across 21 senses — beyond “this” it also covers “this one”, “here”, and “which”. It appears 570 verses across 34 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its most common vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 2:23. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2063 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 →
- 570
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 570 distinct verses.
- 34 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 34 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #79
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 79 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 570 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 90 verses 16%
- Deuteronomy 50 verses 9%
- Genesis 48 verses 8%
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 570 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 300 verses · 53%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 171 verses · 30%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 99 verses · 17%
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: This 9×, It 2×, She 2×
- American Standard Version: This 4×, After this 2×, Herewith 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: This 438×, Is this 12×, These 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: This 467×, Is 37×, Like this 21×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2063 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2063 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 25 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 H2063 across 559 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 38 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 45 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2063 across 615 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.
21 senses in BDB, in lexicon order
The 21 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- this, this one, here, which, this...that, the one...the other, such
(alone)
- this one
- this...that, the one...the other, another
(appos to subst)
- this
(as predicate)
- this, such
(enclitically)
- then
- who, whom
- how now, what now
- what now
- wherefore now
This word has an unusually long lexicon entry — 21 senses across its verb stems. The first 10 are shown above in lexicon order; the remaining 11 senses (more of the same, repeated under each stem) and the full sub-sense tree are in the Lexicon Entry tab.
Word origin
Derived from זה (zeh) (H2089) — lamb, sheep.
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.
זֹאת
- , v. זֶה
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 94 distinct written forms H2063 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/זֹּ֔את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Daniel 10:8 | 67 |
| הַ/זֹּ֖את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Daniel 9:13 | 48 |
| הַ/זֹּ֑את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 5:3 | 46 |
| הַ/זֹּֽאת | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 4:22 | 41 |
| זֹ֣את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Amos 4:12 | 32 |
| זֹ֑את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Amos 7:3 | 27 |
| הַ/זֹּאת֙ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 3:18 | 22 |
| זֹ֥את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 14:4 | 21 |
| זֹ֗את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Genesis 29:27 | 20 |
| זֹ֖את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Exodus 12:43 | 19 |
| הַ/זֹּ֛את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 3:12 | 17 |
| זֹ֤את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 34:4 | 16 |
| זֹאת֙ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Amos 8:8 | 15 |
| זֹ֛את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Amos 2:11 | 13 |
| זֹ֔את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 32:6 | 12 |
| זֹֽאת | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 32:27 | 11 |
| הַ/זֹּ֗את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 6:25 | 9 |
| זֹ֚את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 5:5 | 9 |
| זֹּ֣את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Exodus 14:5 | 8 |
| הַ/זֹּ֜את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 19:9 | 7 |
| וְ/זֹ֣את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 6:1 | 6 |
| זֹּֽאת | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Amos 9:12 | 6 |
| וְ/זֹ֥את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Leviticus 6:14 | 5 |
| זֹ֭את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Job 5:27 | 5 |
| זֹּ֑את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Exodus 13:14 | 5 |
| בְּ/זֹאת֙ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | 1 Samuel 11:2 | 4 |
| הַ/זֹּאת֒ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 31:9 | 4 |
| וְ/זֹאת֙ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Exodus 25:3 | 4 |
| זֹּ֔את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Genesis 20:6 | 4 |
| זֹּ֖את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Genesis 12:18 | 4 |
| כָּ/זֹֽאת | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Ezra 9:13 | 4 |
| בְּ/זֹ֖את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 16:29 | 3 |
| בְּ/זֹ֣את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Exodus 7:17 | 3 |
| וְ/זֹ֛את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | 2 Samuel 7:19 | 3 |
| זֹ֕את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Amos 8:4 | 3 |
| זֹ֡את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Isaiah 54:17 | 3 |
| זֹּאת֙ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Exodus 14:11 | 3 |
| כָּ/זֹ֑את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | 1 Chronicles 29:14 | 3 |
| הֲ/זֹ֣את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Job 20:4 | 2 |
| הֲ/זֹ֥את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Isaiah 23:7 | 2 |
| הַ/זֹּ֤את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 31:21 | 2 |
| הַ/זֹּ֧את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Genesis 19:20 | 2 |
| הַ/זֹּאת֮ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | 1 Samuel 14:45 | 2 |
| וְ/זֹ֖את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Deuteronomy 4:44 | 2 |
| וְ/זֹ֤את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | 1 Kings 3:22 | 2 |
| וְ/כָ/זֹ֖את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | 2 Samuel 17:15 | 2 |
| וְ/כָ/זֹ֥את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | 2 Samuel 17:15 | 2 |
| וְ/כָ/זֹאת֙ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | 2 Kings 5:4 | 2 |
| זֹ֠את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Leviticus 13:59 | 2 |
| זֹ֨את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Hosea 5:1 | 2 |
| זֹּ֥את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Judges 2:2 | 2 |
| כָּ/זֹ֔את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Esther 4:14 | 2 |
| כָּ/זֹ֖את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | 1 Samuel 4:7 | 2 |
| כָּ/זֹ֣את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | 1 Kings 7:37 | 2 |
| כָּ/זֹ֤את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | 2 Kings 5:4 | 2 |
| בָ/זֹ֛את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | 1 Chronicles 27:24 | 1 |
| בְּ/זֹ֔את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Leviticus 26:27 | 1 |
| בְּ/זֹ֛את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Leviticus 16:3 | 1 |
| בְּ/זֹ֞את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Jeremiah 9:24 | 1 |
| בְּ֝/זֹ֗את | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Psalms 27:3 | 1 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 34 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 532 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 570 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:23
- Exodus 7:17
- Leviticus 6:9
- Numbers 4:4
- Deuteronomy 1:5
- Joshua 1:13
- Judges 1:27
- Ruth 1:19
- 1 Samuel 2:20
- 2 Samuel 1:17
- 1 Kings 3:17
- 2 Kings 3:18
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.