אָֽנֹכִ֫י

H595 Strong's Hebrew

ʼânôkîy Transliteration

/aw-no-kee'/ Pronunciation

Usage in the Hebrew Bible 359 appearances

Definition — BDB

I (first person singular)

Cite this entry

Strong's H595 — אנכי (ʼânôkîy), "I". Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB, 1906). Lemma, https://lemma.gebible.app/w/H595.

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Pronoun: A word standing in for a noun (“he,” “this,” “who”).

1st Person: The speaker (“I / we”).

Common: Either gender — not distinguished for this form.

Singular: One.

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2 Samuel 22 verses

1 Kings 7 verses

2 Kings 2 verses

1 Chronicles 1 verse

1 Chronicles 17:1 אָנֹכִ֤י pron pers 1cs It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh [dwells] under curtains.

Nehemiah 1 verse

Nehemiah 1:6 אָנֹכִי֩ pron pers 1cs Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned:

Job 14 verses

Psalms 13 verses

Proverbs 2 verses

Isaiah 19 verses

Jeremiah 34 verses

Ezekiel 1 verse

Ezekiel 36:28 וְ/אָ֣נֹכִ֔י conj + pron pers 1cs You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Daniel 1 verse

Daniel 10:11 אָנֹכִ֨י pron pers 1cs He said to me, Daniel, you man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for to you am I now sent. When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.

Hosea 11 verses

Amos 8 verses

Jonah 2 verses

Micah 1 verse

Micah 3:8 אָנֹכִ֞י pron pers 1cs But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his disobedience, And to Israel his sin.

Zechariah 4 verses

Malachi 1 verse

Malachi 4:5 אָֽנֹכִי֙ pron pers 1cs Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

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.

אנכי (ʼânôkîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “I.” It first appears in Genesis 3:10. It turns up in 335 verses across 26 books, a common footprint. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890

Modern gloss

About this word

Strong's H595 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 →

335: distinct verses; The word appears in 335 distinct verses.
26 / 39: OT books; The word appears in 26 of 39 Old Testament books.
Genesis 3:10: first appearance; The earliest occurrence is in Genesis 3:10.
Malachi 4:5: last appearance; The latest occurrence is in Malachi 4:5.
#138: by frequency; Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 138 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

Deuteronomy 55 verses 16%
Genesis 53 verses 16%
Jeremiah 34 verses 10%

By section of the Old Testament

Pentateuch 135 · 40%
Historical 89 · 27%
Wisdom 29 · 9%
Prophets 82 · 24%

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 335 distinct verses.

Prophets (Nevi'im) 162 verses · 48%
Torah (Pentateuch) 135 verses · 40%
Writings (Ketuvim) 38 verses · 11%

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).

BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.

King James Version: I 1×, Moreover as for me 1×, Which 1×
American Standard Version: I 1×, Moreover as for me 1×, Who 1×
Berean Standard Bible: I 284×, I am 21×, Am i 12×
unfoldingWord Literal Text: I 280×, Myself 21×, I am 17×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H595 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

“I” 1×
“Moreover as for me” 1×
“Which” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H595 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

“I” 1×
“Moreover as for me” 1×
“Who” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H595 across 351 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

“I” 284×
“I am” 21×
“Am i” 12×
“I will” 4×
“Me” 4×
“And” 3×
“Did i” 2×
“I myself” 2×
“Is i” 2×
“Was i” 2×
“Yes i” 2×

Plus 13 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 7 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H595 across 371 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

“I” 280×
“Myself” 21×
“I am” 17×
“Am” 14×
“Am i” 9×
“And” 8×
“I myself” 4×
“Me” 4×
“Did i” 2×

Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

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 0 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.

אנכי I (once Jb 33

אנכי II on. 1 sg. v. supr. sub אֲנִי.

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

I. (once Jb 33:9 אָֽנֹכִ֑י) pron. 1 s. comm. I; Gn 3:10; 7:4; 15:1, 2; 16:5 + often With הֲ, הֶאָנֹכִי †Nu 11:12 Jb 21:4. (Assyrian anâku, Ph. & Moab. אנך: not in Arabic Aramaic Ethiopic; but ku appears as the affix of the 1 s. in the Ethiopic verb (e.g. waladkū = Heb. יָלַדְתִּי). אָנֹכִי and אֲנִי appear to be two parallel formations (both containing the element ani [cf. the sf. -نِيَ, -נִי] or ana, & one strengthened by the addition of the demonst. basis ku [prob. akin to ܟܳܐ כָּא, כֹּה here]: cf. Sta§ 179 WSG 95 f. 98–101), of which, in most of the Sem. languages, one prevailed to the exclusion of the other, but which in Heb. maintained their place side by side.) In some cases אני and אנכי appear capable of being used indifferently; in others the choice seems to have been determined, partly by rhythmical considerations, partly by a growing preference for אֲנִי among later writers. Thus when appended to the verb for emph. (whether with or without גַּם) the lighter form אֲנִי is nearly always used (Lv 20:5; 26:24, 32; Dt 12:30; Ju 1:3; 8:23; 2 S 12:28; 17:15; 18:2, 22; Je 17:18; 21:5; Ez 17:22; Jb 13:2 +; cf. the cases Gn 27:34 1 S 25:24 2 S 19:1 1 K 1:26 Pr 23:15); on the contrary, in the emph. rhetorical style of Dt, אָנֹכִי is preferred (in the discourses, uniformly, except 12:30, in acc. with usage just noted, & 29:5 in a standing expression; on 32:49, 52 (P) cf. infr.) In partic. phrases, also, usage prefers sometimes. אני, sometimes אנכי; thus there occurs חַי־אָנִי Nu 14:21 & always, except Dt 32:40; (אָ֑נִי) אִתְּךָ אֲנִי Je 1:8, 19; 30:11; 46:18; Is 43:2, 5); אֲנִי יהוה Ex 6:2, 6–8 & elsewhere in P, & especially freq. in H (Lv 18:2, 4, 6 etc.) & Ez, also Gn 15:7; 28:13; Dt 29:5 Ju 6:10 +; (אנכי יהוה much less freq.; only JE & proph. writers, †Ex 20:2 = Dt 5:6, Ho 12:10; 13:4 ψ 81:11, Ex 20:5 = Dt 5:9, Is 43:11; 44:24; 51:15 (Ex 4:11 is diff.) cf. DrJPh. xi. 224 f.); אני אמרתי Is 38:10; (Hez.) 49:4; Je 5:4; 10:19 (3:19 אנכי) Ru 4:4 ψ 30:7; 31:23; 41:5; 82:6 +; ויאמר אָ֑נִי (in reponse to a qu.) Gn 27:24 Ju 13:11 2 S 20:17 1 K 13:14; 18:8 (וי׳ אנכי only 2 S 2:20; on the contrary, with a predicate, אָנֹכִי is regularly employed, Gn 24:34 1 S 30:13 2 S 1:8 עֲמָלֵקִי אָנֹ֑כִי 11:5; 20:17; Is 6:5; Je 1:6; Jon 1:9); (הִנְנִי) וַאֲנִי הִנֵּה Gn 6:17; 9:9; Ex 31:6; Nu 3:12 + (but הִנֵּה אָנֹכִי Gn 24:13, 43; 25:32; Ex 3:13; 19:9 +; הִנֵּה אֲנִי is very uncommon; v. ib. 226). So far as the usage of partic. books is concerned, in the Pent. (except Dt) אֲנִי is used in P (incl. H) always (about 130 times) except Gn 23:4 (cf. Ez below); in JE אנכי is preferred, though not exclusively (81: 48). In S there are 50 instances of each form. Je has some 54 instances of אני, 37 of אנכי. In later books the preponderance of אֲנִי is evident. Thus in Ez אני occurs 138 times, אנכי once 36:28 (perhaps a reminiscense of Je 11:4b; 24:7; 30:22); in La Hg Ezr Est Ec אני 45 times, אנכי never; in Ch אני 30 times, אנכי once 1 Ch 17:1 (from 2 S 7:2); in Dn אני 23 times, אנכי once 10:11. Vid. more fully GiesebrechtZAW 1881, 251–8 Drl.c. 222–7.

I. pron. 1 sg. v. supr. sub אֲנִי.

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

Origin: a primitive pronoun

TWOT: 130

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.

אָנֹכִי

v. אֲנָךְ II; cmp. אִינָּךְ) I. Pesik. R. s. 21, v. אָנוֹךְ. Sabb. 105ᵃ א׳ נוטריקון anokhi may be interpreted as an acrostichon א̇נא נֹפשי כ̇תבית י̇הבית I myself have written, have given (the Law). Pesik. Baḥod. p. 109ᵇ; v. אָנוֹךְ.—Pl. אֲנַחְנוּ, נַחְנוּ. Ber. 14ᵇ; a. fr. V. אֲנִי, אָנוּ.

נְכֵי

to deduct. Targ. Y. Lev. XXVII, 18.—Y. Sot. V, 20ᶜ bot.; Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵇ bot. אנא מְנַכֵּי, v. הַנְכָּיָה. Sabb. 140ᵃ מְנַכּוּ, v. זְכוּתָא. B. Kam. 97ᵇ, sq. אי מחמת … מְנַכִּינָן ליה וכ׳ if provisions have become cheaper in consequence of the increased weight of the coin, we impose upon the creditor a corresponding reduction of the debt &c.; a. fr.
to be injured, suffer. Y. Ab. Zar. II, 41ᵈ top אשתון … ואִנְּכוּן the first drank and did not die, but were sick; ib. ולא מייתין אינכון read ואִי׳; (Y. Ter. VIII, 45ᵈ bot. only מייתין). Y. Dem. I, 22ᵃ top ולא אנכון and they suffered no more (from mice). Ib. יעבור ולא מִנְּכָה let him cross, he shall not be injured. Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵇ top כל הן דהוא מהו מִנְּכֵי wherever he be buried, what does he lose (what difference does it make to him)?; Y. Kil. IX, 32ᶜ top טנכי (corr. acc.).
to harm. Y. Sabb. III, 6ᵃ bot. (in Hebr. dict.) ומַכֵּי הוא לה כלום can he harm her in any manner?; Y. Bets. II, 61ᶜ

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 47 distinct written forms H595 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
אָנֹכִ֖י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 4:2	40
אָנֹכִ֥י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Amos 2:13	35
אָנֹכִ֛י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 4:8	25
אָנֹכִ֣י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 6:2	25
אָֽנֹכִי֙	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Amos 6:8	23
אָנֹכִ֤י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 4:40	16
וְ/אָנֹכִ֖י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 31:23	15
אָנֹכִ֜י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Amos 5:1	14
אָנֹכִי֙	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 4:2	13
אָנֹכִ֗י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 29:14	12
וְ/אָנֹכִ֣י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Hosea 7:13	12
אָנֹֽכִי	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Exodus 4:10	11
אָנֹכִ֞י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 5:9	11
אָנֹ֑כִי	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Amos 7:14	10
אָנֹ֔כִי	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Amos 7:14	10
אָנֹכִ֧י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 6:6	7
אָנֹכִ֨י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Daniel 10:11	7
וְ/אָנֹכִ֛י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Amos 2:10	7
וְ/אָנֹכִ֗י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 31:18	6
וְ/אָ֣נֹכִ֔י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Ezekiel 36:28	5
אָנֹכִ֕י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Genesis 26:24	4
אָנֹכִי֩	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Amos 4:7	4
וְ/אָֽנֹכִי֙	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	1 Kings 3:7	4
אָ֝נֹכִ֗י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Job 9:35	3
אָ֭נֹכִֽי	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Job 29:16	3
אָנֹ֖כִי	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Amos 7:14	3
אָנֹ֗כִי	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Exodus 4:10	3
אָנֹכִי֮	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Exodus 34:10	3
וְ/אָנֹכִ֥י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	2 Samuel 12:7	3
וְ/אָנֹכִ֨י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	2 Samuel 3:39	3
וְ/אָנֹכִי֙	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Exodus 4:12	3
אָ֠נֹכִי	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 5:5	2
אָֽנֹכִ֖י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Exodus 20:2	2
וְ/אָ֨נֹכִ֜י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Amos 2:9	2
אָ֨נֹכִי֙	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	1 Samuel 9:21	1
אָֽנֹכִ֛י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 4:1	1
אָנֹ֘כִי֮	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	2 Samuel 3:8	1
אָנֹכִ֑י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Job 33:9	1
אָנֹכִ֡י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Jeremiah 50:9	1
אָֽנֹכִ֗י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Judges 5:3	1
אָֽנֹכִ֞י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Exodus 20:5	1
הֶ/אָנֹכִ֣י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Numbers 11:12	1
הֶ֭/אָנֹכִי	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Job 21:4	1
וְ/אָֽנֹכִ֗י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	1 Samuel 16:3	1
וְ/אָנֹכִ֞י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Deuteronomy 10:10	1
וְ/אָנֹכִ֤י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Hosea 11:3	1
וְ/אָּנֹכִ֖י	Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Ruth 2:10	1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H595, 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.

Derived from this word

אנחנו ʼănachnûw H587 we

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

אני ʼănîy H589 I

Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 314 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 335 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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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.