אַתָּ֫ה
you
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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
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H859 appears in the Book of Deuteronomy — 81 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.
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 1:37 אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also shall not go in there:
- Deuteronomy 1:40 וְ/אַתֶּ֖ם conj + pron pers 2mp But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
- Deuteronomy 2:4 אַתֶּ֣ם pron pers 2mp Command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;
- Deuteronomy 2:18 אַתָּ֨ה pron pers 2ms You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab:
- Deuteronomy 3:21 אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
- Deuteronomy 3:24 אַתָּ֤ה pron pers 2ms Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts?
- Deuteronomy 4:4 וְ/אַתֶּם֙ conj + pron pers 2mp But you who did cleave to Yahweh your God are alive everyone of you this day.
- Deuteronomy 4:5 אַתֶּ֛ם pron pers 2mp Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:12 אַתֶּ֣ם pron pers 2mp Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only [you heard] a voice.
- Deuteronomy 4:14 אַתֶּ֛ם pron pers 2mp Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:22 וְ/אַתֶּם֙ conj + pron pers 2mp but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.
- Deuteronomy 4:26 אַתֶּ֜ם pron pers 2mp I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 4:33 אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
- Deuteronomy 4:35 אַתָּה֙ pron pers 2ms To you it was shown, that you might know that Yahweh he is God; there is none else besides him.
- Deuteronomy 5:14 אַתָּ֣ה pron pers 2ms but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God: [in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you.
- Deuteronomy 5:27 אַתָּה֙ וְ/אַ֣תְּ pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2fs Go you near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say: and speak you to us all that Yahweh our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.
- Deuteronomy 5:31 וְ/אַתָּ֗ה conj + pron pers 2ms But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 6:1 אַתֶּ֛ם pron pers 2mp Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
- Deuteronomy 6:2 אַתָּה֙ pron pers 2ms that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
- Deuteronomy 7:1 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
- Deuteronomy 7:6 אַתָּ֔ה pron pers 2ms For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 7:7 אַתֶּ֥ם pron pers 2mp Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
- Deuteronomy 7:19 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
- Deuteronomy 9:1 אַתָּ֨ה pron pers 2ms Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
- Deuteronomy 9:2 אַתָּ֤ה וְ/אַתָּ֣ה pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?
- Deuteronomy 9:5 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 9:6 אָֽתָּה pron pers 2ms Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
- Deuteronomy 11:8 אַתֶּ֛ם pron pers 2mp Therefore shall you keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;
- Deuteronomy 11:10 אַתָּ֤ה pron pers 2ms For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
- Deuteronomy 11:11 אַתֶּ֜ם pron pers 2mp but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky,
- Deuteronomy 11:29 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
- Deuteronomy 11:31 אַתֶּם֙ pron pers 2mp For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.
- Deuteronomy 12:1 אַתֶּ֥ם pron pers 2mp These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
- Deuteronomy 12:2 אַתֶּ֛ם pron pers 2mp You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:
- Deuteronomy 12:7 אַתֶּ֖ם pron pers 2mp and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
- Deuteronomy 12:12 אַתֶּ֗ם pron pers 2mp You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
- Deuteronomy 12:18 אַתָּ֨ה pron pers 2ms but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
- Deuteronomy 12:29 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;
- Deuteronomy 13:6 אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
- Deuteronomy 14:1 אַתֶּ֔ם pron pers 2mp You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
- Deuteronomy 14:2 אַתָּ֔ה pron pers 2ms For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 14:21 אַתָּ֔ה pron pers 2ms You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
- Deuteronomy 14:26 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
- Deuteronomy 15:6 וְ/אַתָּה֙ conj + pron pers 2ms For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
- Deuteronomy 15:20 אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
- Deuteronomy 16:11 אַתָּ֨ה pron pers 2ms and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
- Deuteronomy 16:14 אַתָּ֨ה pron pers 2ms and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 18:9 אַתָּה֙ pron pers 2ms When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
- Deuteronomy 18:14 אַתָּה֙ וְ/אַתָּ֕ה pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
- Deuteronomy 20:3 אַתֶּ֨ם pron pers 2mp and shall tell them, Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
- Deuteronomy 21:9 וְ/אַתָּ֗ה conj + pron pers 2ms So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 23:20 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 24:11 אַתָּה֙ pron pers 2ms You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.
- Deuteronomy 25:18 וְ/אַתָּ֖ה conj + pron pers 2ms how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God.
- Deuteronomy 26:11 אַתָּה֙ pron pers 2ms and you shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 28:3 אַתָּ֖ה אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
- Deuteronomy 28:6 אַתָּ֖ה אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
- Deuteronomy 28:12 וְ/אַתָּ֖ה conj + pron pers 2ms Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.
- Deuteronomy 28:16 אַתָּ֖ה אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
- Deuteronomy 28:19 אַתָּ֖ה אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
- Deuteronomy 28:21 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 28:36 אַתָּ֣ה pron pers 2ms Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 28:43 וְ/אַתָּ֥ה conj + pron pers 2ms The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
- Deuteronomy 28:44 וְ/אַתָּ֖ה וְ/אַתָּ֖ה conj + pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
- Deuteronomy 28:52 אַתָּ֛ה pron pers 2ms They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.
- Deuteronomy 28:63 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 28:64 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 29:2 אַתֶּ֣ם pron pers 2mp Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
- Deuteronomy 29:10 אַתֶּ֨ם pron pers 2mp You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
- Deuteronomy 29:16 אַתֶּ֣ם pron pers 2mp (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
- Deuteronomy 30:2 אַתָּ֣ה pron pers 2ms and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
- Deuteronomy 30:8 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.
- Deuteronomy 30:16 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 30:18 אַתָּ֤ה pron pers 2ms I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 30:19 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
- Deuteronomy 31:7 אַתָּ֗ה וְ/אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
- Deuteronomy 31:13 אַתֶּ֤ם אַתֶּ֜ם pron pers 2mp pron pers 2mp and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 31:23 אַתָּ֗ה pron pers 2ms He gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.
- Deuteronomy 32:47 אַתֶּ֜ם pron pers 2mp For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 32:50 אַתָּה֙ pron pers 2ms and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:
- Deuteronomy 33:29 וְ/אַתָּ֖ה conj + pron pers 2ms Happy are you, Israel: Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, The shield of your help, The sword of your excellency! Your enemies shall submit themselves to you; You shall tread on their high places.
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.
אתה — transliterated ʼattâh — is a Hebrew word carrying the sense “you.” The King James Version usually renders it “thou,” while modern versions prefer “you” (Berean Standard Bible) — see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 997 verses in 39 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Genesis 3:11, it then recurs through the corpus. From the same root come אנתה. See the sense tree, 997-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H859 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 →
- 997
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 997 distinct verses.
- 39 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 39 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #34
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 34 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 997 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 997 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 517 verses · 52%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 241 verses · 24%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 239 verses · 24%
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 7 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†: Thou 5×, Ye 3×
- American Standard Version†: Thou 4×, Ye 3×
- Berean Standard Bible†: You 800×, Are you 49×, Do you 21×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: You 833×, Yourself 46×, Are you 42×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H859 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H859 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 H859 across 1,022† 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 67 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H859 across 1,122† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 35 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.
אתה I (so regularly
אתה II on. 2 s. f. thou (fem.) (shortened from אַתִּי (q.v.)
אתה III on. 2 m.pl. you (masc.) (for antem, v. supr.) Gn 9
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. (so regularly; but 26–7 times, with different disj. accents, אַ֑תָּה: v. FrMM 228; Sta§ 178 a (read 8 for 18) pron. 2 s. m. thou (for anta, v. supr.; cf. נָתַתָּ for נָתַנְתָּ) Gn 3:11, 19 + often. Written אַתָּ †1 S 24:18 ψ 6:4; Jb 1:10; Ec 7:22; Ne 9:6. Appended to a vb. for emph., Ex 18:19(×2) 1 S 17:56 שְׁאַל אַתָּה inquire thou, 20:8; 22:18; Is 43:26 סַפֵּר אַתָּה. Added for the purpose of strengthening a gen. or accus. sf. 1 K 21:19; Pr 22:19 (Ges§ 135, 2).
I. pron. 2 s. f. thou (fem.) (shortened from אַתִּי (q.v.); in Syriac the two genders are written differently, ܐܰܢ̱ܬ݀, ܐܰܢ̱ܬ݀ܝ, but, the ܝ not being sounded, are pronounced alike: in 𝔗 both are written אַתְּ or אַנְתְּ) Gn 12:11, 13; 24:23 + often. Thrice Nu 11:15; Dt 5:24; Ez 28:14 used as a masc. (as in Aramaic of 𝔗); but prob. אַתָּ (v. sub אַתָּה) should be here read.
I. pron. 2 m.pl. you (masc.) (for antem, v. supr.) Gn 9:7; 26:27; 29:4 + often. With הֲ, הָאַתֶּם †Ju 6:31; following the vb. for emph. Ju 15:12; Je 34:15; construed inaccurately with a fem. Ez 13:20.
I. Ez 34:31 (many edd. אַתֶּן), אַתֵּ֫נָה Gn 31:6 Ez 13:11, 20 (edd. אַתֵּ֫נָּה) 34:17 pron. 2 f.pl. you (fem.)
— 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 of the second person
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.
אַתָּה
- ,, v. אָנֹכִי) thou. Ber. 11ᵃ; a. fr.—אתה אומר, v. אַתְּ.—Pl. אַתֶּם, אַתֶּן ye. Ber. I, 1; a. fr.—R. Hash. 25ᵃ א׳ א׳ א׳ ג׳ פעמים וכ׳ three times attem is written (אֹתָם, without ו); v. אֲפִילּוּ. Sifra Emor IX, 9; 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 126 distinct written forms H859 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַתָּ֣ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Amos 7:16 | 100 |
| אַתָּ֖ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 1:37 | 71 |
| אַתָּ֥ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 7:1 | 67 |
| אַתָּה֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 4:35 | 55 |
| וְ/אַתָּ֣ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 12:4 | 52 |
| אַתֶּ֣ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 2:4 | 48 |
| אַתָּ֤ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Amos 7:8 | 38 |
| וְ/אַתָּ֖ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 12:13 | 32 |
| אַתֶּם֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 11:31 | 30 |
| אַתֶּ֥ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Amos 9:7 | 28 |
| אָ֑תָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 9:23 | 27 |
| וְ/אַתָּה֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 8:26 | 27 |
| אָֽתָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 9:6 | 22 |
| אַתֶּ֖ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 12:7 | 21 |
| אַתָּ֛ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 28:52 | 19 |
| וְ/אַתֶּ֖ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 1:40 | 17 |
| וְ/אַתָּ֞ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Exodus 14:16 | 16 |
| אַ֔תָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Exodus 33:3 | 15 |
| אַתָּ֨ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 2:18 | 15 |
| אַ֭תָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Job 8:5 | 14 |
| אַתֶּ֛ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 4:5 | 13 |
| אַתָּ֔ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 7:6 | 13 |
| וְ/אַתֶּם֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 4:4 | 13 |
| וְ/אַתָּ֗ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Amos 7:17 | 13 |
| וְ/אַתָּ֤ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Exodus 33:12 | 13 |
| אַתֶּ֑ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 34:31 | 12 |
| אַ֣תְּ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 16:52 | 11 |
| אַתֶּ֔ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 14:1 | 11 |
| אַתָּ֗ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 31:7 | 11 |
| וְ/אַתָּ֥ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 28:43 | 10 |
| אַתֶּ֜ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 4:26 | 9 |
| אַתֶּ֤ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 31:13 | 9 |
| אַתָּ֕ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Exodus 18:18 | 9 |
| אַתָּ֞ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Exodus 19:23 | 9 |
| וְ/אַתֶּ֗ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Exodus 12:22 | 9 |
| אַתָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | 1 Chronicles 17:26 | 8 |
| וְ/אַתָּ֛ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Genesis 15:15 | 8 |
| אַ֖תְּ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 16:48 | 7 |
| וְ/אַתֶּ֣ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | 2 Chronicles 15:7 | 7 |
| אַ֠תָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Genesis 31:52 | 6 |
| אַתֶּ֞ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Genesis 45:8 | 6 |
| אַתֶּֽם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Genesis 42:14 | 6 |
| הַ/אַתָּ֥ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | 1 Kings 18:7 | 6 |
| וְ֠/אַתָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Ezekiel 33:9 | 6 |
| אַתְּ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Feminine, Singular | Genesis 39:9 | 5 |
| אַ֖תָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Habakkuk 2:16 | 5 |
| אַתֶּ֗ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 12:12 | 5 |
| אַתֶּ֨ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Deuteronomy 20:3 | 5 |
| אתי | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 36:13 | 5 |
| וְ/אַתֶּ֥ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Haggai 1:9 | 5 |
| אַ֑תָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Psalms 2:7 | 4 |
| אַ֤תְּ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Feminine, Singular | 1 Kings 2:15 | 4 |
| אַתָּֽה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | 2 Chronicles 20:6 | 4 |
| אַתָּה֩ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Exodus 3:18 | 4 |
| אָ֑תְּ | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 36:13 | 4 |
| וְ/אַתֶּ֞ם | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Ezekiel 36:8 | 4 |
| וְ/אַתָּ֡ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Exodus 28:1 | 4 |
| וְ/אַתָּ֨ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Ezekiel 5:1 | 4 |
| אַ֝תָּ֗ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Psalms 16:5 | 3 |
| אַתָּ֧ה | Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | 1 Kings 18:36 | 3 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 66 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H859, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 904 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 997 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 3:11
- Exodus 2:14
- Leviticus 10:9
- Numbers 1:3
- Deuteronomy 1:37
- Joshua 1:2
- Judges 2:2
- Ruth 3:9
- 1 Samuel 7:3
- 2 Samuel 1:8
- 1 Kings 1:13
- 2 Kings 1:3
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.
