אַנְתָּה
you
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”).
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H607 appears in the Book of Daniel — 13 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.
Daniel
- Daniel 2:29 אַ֣נְתְּה pron pers 2ms as for you, O king, your thoughts came [into your mind] on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what shall happen.
- Daniel 2:31 אַ֣נְתְּה pron pers 2ms You, O king, saw, and, behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and the aspect of it was awesome.
- Daniel 2:37 אַ֣נְתְּה pron pers 2ms You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;
- Daniel 2:38 אַנְתְּה pron pers 2ms and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold.
- Daniel 3:10 אנתה אַ֣נְתְּ pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;
- Daniel 4:18 ו/אנתה וְ/אַ֨נְתְּ ו/אנתה וְ/אַ֣נְתְּ conj + pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.
- Daniel 4:22 אנתה אַנְתְּ pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
- Daniel 5:13 אנתה אַנְתְּ pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel, who are of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?
- Daniel 5:18 אנתה אַ֖נְתְּ pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms You king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
- Daniel 5:22 ו/אנתה וְ/אַ֤נְתְּ conj + pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms You his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
- Daniel 5:23 ו/אנתה וְ/אַ֨נְתְּ conj + pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
- Daniel 6:16 אנתה אַ֤נְתְּ pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. [Now] the king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.
- Daniel 6:20 אנתה אַ֤נְתְּ pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?
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.
אנתה (ʼantâh) is a Hebrew word most often rendered “you.” Daniel dominates its distribution — 13 of 14 verses. Spanning 14 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Ezra 7:25. The King James Version usually renders it “thou,” while modern versions prefer “you” (Berean Standard Bible) — see the renderings breakdown. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H607 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,282
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,282 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
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 14 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 14 verses · 100%
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: Thou 9×
- American Standard Version: Thou 10×, Thee 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: You 13×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: You 13×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H607 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H607 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 H607 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H607 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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.
- you, thou (second person singular)
Word origin
אנתה Kt 14 (i.e. אַנְתָּה, peculiar to BAram.) pr.2ms. thou
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אתה (ʼattâh) (H859) — you.
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.
אַנְתְּ
- com. (= h. אַתָּה, אַתְּ) thou. Dan. II, 29; a. e.—Targ. freq.—Sabb. 30ᵃ א׳ שלמה thou, O Solomon! Ned. 91ᵇ אי א׳ לא if it was not thou. B. Mets. 26ᵇ; a. fr. e.g. Daniel 2:29
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 11 distinct written forms H607 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אנתה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 3:10 | 6 |
| ו/אנתה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 4:18 | 4 |
| אַ֣נְתְּה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 2:29 | 3 |
| אַ֤נְתְּ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 6:16 | 2 |
| אַנְתְּ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 4:22 | 2 |
| וְ/אַ֣נְתְּ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 4:18 | 2 |
| וְ/אַ֨נְתְּ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 4:18 | 2 |
| אַ֖נְתְּ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 5:18 | 1 |
| אַ֣נְתְּ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 3:10 | 1 |
| אַנְתְּה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 2:38 | 1 |
| וְ/אַ֤נְתְּ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 5:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H607, 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
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 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.
