אֲנִי
I
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Pronoun
- A word standing in for a noun (“he,” “this,” “who”).
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H589 appears in the Book of 1 Kings — 28 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.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 1:5 אֲנִ֣י pron pers 1cs Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
- 1 Kings 1:14 וַ/אֲנִי֙ conj + pron pers 1cs Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.
- 1 Kings 1:21 אֲנִ֛י pron pers 1cs Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
- 1 Kings 1:26 אֲנִֽי pron pers 1cs But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.
- 1 Kings 3:17 אֲנִי֙ pron pers 1cs The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
- 1 Kings 5:8 אֲנִ֤י pron pers 1cs Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard [the message] which you have sent to me: I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
- 1 Kings 5:9 וַ֠/אֲנִי conj + pron pers 1cs My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
- 1 Kings 12:11 וַ/אֲנִ֖י וַ/אֲנִ֕י conj + pron pers 1cs conj + pron pers 1cs Now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
- 1 Kings 12:14 וַ/אֲנִ֖י וַ/אֲנִ֕י conj + pron pers 1cs conj + pron pers 1cs and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
- 1 Kings 13:14 אָֽנִי pron pers 1cs He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? He said, I am.
- 1 Kings 13:18 אֲנִ֣י pron pers 1cs He said to him, I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied to him.
- 1 Kings 17:20 אֲנִ֨י pron pers 1cs He cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?
- 1 Kings 18:8 אָ֑נִי pron pers 1cs He answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
- 1 Kings 18:12 אֲנִ֣י pron pers 1cs It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear Yahweh from my youth.
- 1 Kings 18:22 אֲנִ֞י pron pers 1cs Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men.
- 1 Kings 18:23 וַ/אֲנִ֞י conj + pron pers 1cs Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under.
- 1 Kings 18:24 וַֽ/אֲנִי֙ conj + pron pers 1cs You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh; and the God who answers by fire, let him be God." All the people answered, "It is well said."
- 1 Kings 18:36 וַ/אֲנִ֣י conj + pron pers 1cs It happened at the time of the offering of the [evening] offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
- 1 Kings 19:10 אֲנִי֙ pron pers 1cs He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
- 1 Kings 19:14 אֲנִי֙ pron pers 1cs He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
- 1 Kings 20:4 אֲנִ֖י pron pers 1cs The king of Israel answered, It is according to your saying, my lord, O king; I am yours, and all that I have.
- 1 Kings 20:13 אֲנִ֥י pron pers 1cs Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, Thus says Yahweh, Have you seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 20:28 אֲנִ֥י pron pers 1cs A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, Thus says Yahweh, Because the Syrians have said, Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys; therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 20:34 וַ/אֲנִ֖י conj + pron pers 1cs [Ben Hadad] said to him, The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you shall make streets for you in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. I, [said Ahab], will let you go with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.
- 1 Kings 21:7 אֲנִי֙ pron pers 1cs Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry: I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
- 1 Kings 22:8 וַ/אֲנִ֣י conj + pron pers 1cs The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."
- 1 Kings 22:16 אֲנִ֣י pron pers 1cs The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?
- 1 Kings 22:21 אֲנִ֣י pron pers 1cs There came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said, I will entice him.
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- 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.
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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 6:17
- Exodus 2:9
- Leviticus 11:44
- Numbers 3:12
- Deuteronomy 12:30
- Joshua 5:14
- Judges 1:3
- Ruth 1:21
- 1 Samuel 1:26
- 2 Samuel 3:13
- 1 Kings 1:5
- 2 Kings 1:10
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.
