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אֲנִי

I

H589 Strong's Hebrew
ʼănîy Transliteration
/an-ee'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 874 appearances

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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.

אני (ʼănîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “I.” It first appears in Genesis 6:17. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 803 verses — among the most common. For the data behind this summary, explore 803-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
I
Modern gloss
I
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H589 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 →

803
distinct verses
The word appears in 803 distinct verses.
37 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 37 of 39 Old Testament books.
Genesis 6:17
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Genesis 6:17.
Malachi 4:3
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Malachi 4:3.
#50
by frequency
Top 50 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 50 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 803 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 166 · 21%
  • Historical 155 · 19%
  • Wisdom 140 · 17%
  • Prophets 342 · 43%

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 803 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 420 verses · 52%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 217 verses · 27%
  • Torah (Pentateuch) 166 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: I 2×, Me 2×, Shall i 2×
  • American Standard Version: I 3×, Me 2×, Shall i 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: I 722×, Surely as i 13×, I am 11×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: I 654×, Am 96×, I am 56×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H589 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “I” 2×
  • “Me” 2×
  • “Shall i” 2×

Plus 7 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 H589 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “I” 3×
  • “Me” 2×
  • “Shall i” 2×

Plus 7 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 H589 across 854 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “I” 722×
  • “Surely as i” 13×
  • “I am” 11×
  • “Me” 11×
  • “Am i” 7×
  • “I myself” 7×
  • “I will” 6×
  • “We” 5×
  • “Should i” 4×
  • “Surely as” 4×
  • “Is i” 3×
  • “Let me” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 34 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 16 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H589 across 975 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “I” 654×
  • “Am” 96×
  • “I am” 56×
  • “Myself” 48×
  • “Me” 27×
  • “I myself” 20×
  • “And” 11×
  • “I live” 8×
  • “I will” 8×
  • “But” 6×
  • “Am i” 5×
  • “I i” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in BDB

The 1 sense 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.

  1. I (first person singular - usually used for emphasis)

Word origin

pron. 1 s. comm. I (أَنَا, אֲנָא, ܐܶܢܳܐ:, አነ ) Gn 6:17; 9:9, 12 + oft. Following a ptcp. as its subj. (to express mostly either a true present or the fut. instans) Gn 18:17 הַמְכַסֶּה אֲנִי Am I hiding from Abraham that which, etc., Ju 15:3 1 S 3:13 Je 1:12; 38:14; 44:29 (v. Dr§ 135, 4). Appended to a verb, it expresses, in early Hebrew, a real emphasis, as Ju 8:23 לֹא אֶמְשֹׁל אֲנִי בָּכֶם I will not rule over you, 2 S 12:28 lest I take the city, 2 S 17:15 thus and thus did Ahitophel counsel, and thus and thus יָעַצְתִּי אָ֑נִי did I counsel; but in later Heb. it is sometimes pleonastic, Ec 2:11–15, 18–20 +. In response to a question, אָ֑נִי alone = I am, It is I, Gn 27:24 Ju 13:11 1 K 18:8 +. With הֲ, הַאֲנִי †Is 66:9. (Syn. אָנֹכִי, q.v.)

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from אנכי (ʼânôkîy) (H595) — I.

TWOT: 129


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.

אני

  • (= b. h. ינה, sec. r. of און, cmp. אָנַן a. b. h. ענה); Pi. (אִנָּה) אִינָּה to press, wrong, oppress; to impose, overreach in dealing, v. אוֹנָאָה. B. Mets. 59ᵇ המְאַנֶּה את הגר he who wounds a stranger’s (proselyte’s) feeling. Ib. 49ᵇ תן לי מה שאִינִּיתָנִי return to me the amount with which thou hast overreached me. Ib. 50ᵃ top מה שאניתני (Ms. R. 1 שנִתְאוֹנַנְתִּי, v. infra). Ib. 51ᵃ שאניתני (Ms. M. שאֲנַנְתָּנִי, fr. אָנַן; Mish. ib. IV, 2 שאוֹנִיתָנִי, v. אוֹנָאָה, Ms. R. 1 שהוֹנִיתָנִי, v. הוֹנָאָה, Ms. R. 2 שאונתני, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).
    • to be overreached. Ib. 49ᵇ מי נ׳ which of them has been overreached? Ib. 50ᵇ מי שנ׳ (Ms. M. מִתְאוֹנֶה); a. fr. [Nithpol. of אנן, נִתְאוֹנֵן, v. supra.] [In. Y. אוֹנָה, v. אוֹנָאָה.]

אֲנִי

  • , v. אָנֹכִי) I. Succ. 53ᵃ; a. v. fr.—[Ib. IV, 5 אני והו (Y. והוא), reverential transcription of אנא יהוה, to avoid the utterance of the Tetragrammaton.]—Pl. אָנוּ. Keth. I, 6; a. fr.

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 60 distinct written forms H589 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
אֲנִ֥י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Daniel 8:15 145
אֲנִ֣י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Daniel 8:1 126
אֲנִ֖י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ecclesiastes 2:15 76
אֲנִי֙ Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Daniel 1:10 57
אֲנִ֤י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Daniel 9:20 45
וַ/אֲנִ֣י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Daniel 8:5 33
אֲנִ֛י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ecclesiastes 4:2 32
אָֽנִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Deuteronomy 12:30 24
אָ֔נִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ecclesiastes 2:13 20
וַ/אֲנִ֖י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Exodus 2:9 20
וַ/אֲנִ֗י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Daniel 10:4 19
וַ/אֲנִי֙ Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Daniel 8:2 17
אֲנִ֨י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Daniel 10:7 16
אָ֑נִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 5:8 16
וַ/אֲנִ֥י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Daniel 8:2 16
וַ/אֲנִ֤י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Daniel 10:17 15
אָ֗נִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ecclesiastes 5:18 14
אֲנִ֗י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ecclesiastes 1:16 13
אֲנִ֧י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Deuteronomy 32:39 12
וַ/אֲנִ֕י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 11:20 12
וַ/אֲנִ֞י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Exodus 31:6 11
אֲ֭נִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Job 5:8 10
אֲנִ֞י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Exodus 10:1 10
אֲנִ֜י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ecclesiastes 2:15 9
אֲנִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Genesis 17:1 8
אֲ֝נִ֗י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Psalms 2:7 7
וַֽ/אֲנִי֙ Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 14:11 7
אֲֽנִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Job 5:3 6
וַ֭/אֲנִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Psalms 2:6 6
אָ֖נִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Genesis 27:34 5
אָ֭נִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Job 7:12 5
וַ/אֲנִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Daniel 10:12 5
וַ֝/אֲנִ֗י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Psalms 31:6 5
אֲנִֽי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 36:32 4
אָ֕נִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 18:3 4
אָ֨נִי֙ Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 20:3 4
וַ/אֲנִ֛י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 20:31 4
אֲנִ֕י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Genesis 17:4 3
אֲנִי֩ Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Amos 4:6 3
אָ֣נִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 33:11 3
אָ֥נִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Psalms 6:2 3
אֲנִ֔י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 9:10 2
אֲנִי֮ Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Job 7:11 2
אָנִי֒ Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 17:19 2
וַ/אֲנִ֨י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular 1 Samuel 19:3 2
וַֽ/אֲנִי֙ Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular 1 Kings 18:24 2
אֲנִ֪י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Psalms 116:16 1
אָ֜נִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ezekiel 34:8 1
אָ֝֗נִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Job 9:20 1
אָ֡נִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Zephaniah 2:9 1
אָנִֽי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Judges 9:2 1
אָנִי֩ Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Malachi 1:6 1
אָנִי֮ Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Jeremiah 22:24 1
הַ/אֲנִ֥י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Isaiah 66:9 1
וַ֠/אֲנִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular 1 Kings 5:9 1
וַֽ/אֲנִ֛י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular 2 Chronicles 6:2 1
וַֽ/אֲנִי Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Isaiah 43:12 1
וַֽ/אֲנִ֣י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Joshua 17:14 1
שֶׁ/אֲנִ֣י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Song of Solomon 1:6 1
שֶׁ/אֲנִ֥י Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular Ecclesiastes 2:18 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H589, 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.

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 744 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 803 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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