אַתָּ֫ה
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.
- 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 Ezekiel — 82 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.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 2:6 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 2:8 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be you rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.
- Ezekiel 3:5 אַתָּ֣ה pron pers 2ms For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
- Ezekiel 3:19 וְ/אַתָּה֙ וְ/אַתָּ֖ה conj + pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
- Ezekiel 3:21 וְ/אַתָּ֞ה וְ/אַתָּ֖ה conj + pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
- Ezekiel 3:25 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:
- Ezekiel 4:1 וְ/אַתָּ֤ה conj + pron pers 2ms You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:
- Ezekiel 4:3 וְ/אַתָּ֤ה conj + pron pers 2ms Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 4:4 וְ/אַתָּ֤ה conj + pron pers 2ms Moreover lie you on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 4:9 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, shall you eat of it.
- Ezekiel 5:1 וְ/אַתָּ֨ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, take a sharp sword; [as] a barber's razor shall you take it to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
- Ezekiel 7:2 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners of the land.
- Ezekiel 8:6 אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall again see yet other great abominations.
- Ezekiel 9:8 אַתָּ֗ה pron pers 2ms It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?
- Ezekiel 11:11 וְ/אַתֶּ֛ם conj + pron pers 2mp This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh in the midst of it; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
- Ezekiel 11:13 אַתָּ֣ה pron pers 2ms It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
- Ezekiel 12:2 אַתָּ֣ה pron pers 2ms Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 12:3 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 12:4 וְ/אַתָּ֗ה conj + pron pers 2ms You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing; and you shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile.
- Ezekiel 12:9 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do you?
- Ezekiel 13:11 וְ/אַתֵּ֜נָה conj + pron pers 2fp tell those who daub it with whitewash, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it.
- Ezekiel 13:17 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy you against them,
- Ezekiel 13:20 אַ֠תֵּנָה אַתֶּ֛ם pron pers 2fp pron pers 2mp Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls who you hunt to make [them] fly.
- Ezekiel 16:7 וְ/אַ֖תְּ conj + pron pers 2fs I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare.
- Ezekiel 16:33 וְ/אַ֨תְּ conj + pron pers 2fs They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.
- Ezekiel 16:45 אַ֔תְּ אַ֗תְּ pron pers 2fs pron pers 2fs You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
- Ezekiel 16:48 אַ֖תְּ pron pers 2fs As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
- Ezekiel 16:52 אַ֣תְּ אַ֥תְּ pron pers 2fs pron pers 2fs You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you: yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
- Ezekiel 16:55 וְ/אַתְּ֙ conj + pron pers 2fs Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall return to your former estate.
- Ezekiel 16:58 אַ֣תְּ pron pers 2fs You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 18:2 אַתֶּם֙ pron pers 2mp What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
- Ezekiel 19:1 וְ/אַתָּה֙ conj + pron pers 2ms Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
- Ezekiel 20:3 אַתֶּ֣ם pron pers 2mp Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you.
- Ezekiel 20:29 אַתֶּ֥ם pron pers 2mp Then I said to them, What means the high place whereunto you go? So the name of it is called Bamah to this day.
- Ezekiel 20:30 אַתֶּ֣ם אַתֶּ֥ם pron pers 2mp pron pers 2mp Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play you the prostitute after their abominations?
- Ezekiel 20:31 אַתֶּם֩ pron pers 2mp and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you;
- Ezekiel 20:32 אַתֶּ֣ם pron pers 2mp and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
- Ezekiel 20:39 וְ/אַתֶּ֨ם conj + pron pers 2mp As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go you, serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name shall you no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.
- Ezekiel 21:6 וְ/אַתָּ֥ה conj + pron pers 2ms Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your loins and with bitterness shall you sigh before their eyes.
- Ezekiel 21:7 אַתָּ֣ה pron pers 2ms It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 21:14 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers.
- Ezekiel 21:19 וְ/אַתָּ֨ה conj + pron pers 2ms Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.
- Ezekiel 21:25 וְ/אַתָּה֙ conj + pron pers 2ms You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
- Ezekiel 21:28 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say you, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
- Ezekiel 22:2 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
- Ezekiel 22:24 אַ֣תְּ pron pers 2fs Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.
- Ezekiel 23:35 אַ֛תְּ pron pers 2fs Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your prostitution.
- Ezekiel 24:19 אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?
- Ezekiel 24:25 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
- Ezekiel 27:2 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
- Ezekiel 27:3 אַ֣תְּ pron pers 2fs and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many isles, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.
- Ezekiel 28:2 וְ/אַתָּ֤ה conj + pron pers 2ms Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God;-
- Ezekiel 28:3 אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;
- Ezekiel 28:9 וְ/אַתָּ֥ה conj + pron pers 2ms Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
- Ezekiel 28:12 אַתָּה֙ pron pers 2ms Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
- Ezekiel 28:14 אַ֨תְּ pron pers 2fs You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
- Ezekiel 28:15 אַתָּה֙ pron pers 2ms You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
- Ezekiel 32:2 וְ/אַתָּה֙ conj + pron pers 2ms Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
- Ezekiel 32:28 וְ/אַתָּ֗ה conj + pron pers 2ms But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are slain by the sword.
- Ezekiel 33:7 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
- Ezekiel 33:9 וְ֠/אַתָּה וְ/אַתָּ֖ה conj + pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.
- Ezekiel 33:10 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?
- Ezekiel 33:12 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.
- Ezekiel 33:30 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 34:17 וְ/אַתֵּ֣נָה conj + pron pers 2fp As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
- Ezekiel 34:31 וְ/אַתֵּ֥ן אַתֶּ֑ם conj + pron pers 2fp pron pers 2mp You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 35:4 וְ/אַתָּ֖ה conj + pron pers 2ms I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 36:1 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 36:8 וְ/אַתֶּ֞ם conj + pron pers 2mp But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.
- Ezekiel 36:13 אתי אָ֑תְּ pron pers 2fs pron pers 2fs Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You [land] are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;
- Ezekiel 37:3 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know.
- Ezekiel 37:16 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel his companions:
- Ezekiel 38:7 אַתָּ֕ה pron pers 2ms Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.
- Ezekiel 38:9 אַתָּה֙ pron pers 2ms You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
- Ezekiel 38:13 אַתָּ֣ה pron pers 2ms Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Are you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?
- Ezekiel 38:15 אַתָּ֕ה pron pers 2ms You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army;
- Ezekiel 38:17 הַֽ/אַתָּה ptcl inter + pron pers 2ms Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them?
- Ezekiel 39:1 וְ/אַתָּ֤ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
- Ezekiel 39:4 אַתָּה֙ pron pers 2ms You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
- Ezekiel 39:17 וְ/אַתָּ֨ה conj + pron pers 2ms You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.
- Ezekiel 40:4 אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, are you brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 43:10 אַתָּ֣ה pron pers 2ms You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
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.
