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 Nehemiah — 24 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.
Nehemiah
- Nehemiah 1:8 אַתֶּ֣ם pron pers 2mp Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, If you trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples:
- Nehemiah 2:2 וְ/אַתָּה֙ conj + pron pers 2ms The king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.
- Nehemiah 2:4 אַתָּ֣ה pron pers 2ms Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
- Nehemiah 2:17 אַתֶּ֤ם pron pers 2mp Then said I to them, You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and the gates of it are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
- Nehemiah 2:19 אַתֶּ֣ם אַתֶּ֥ם pron pers 2mp pron pers 2mp But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?
- Nehemiah 5:7 אַתֶּ֣ם pron pers 2mp Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, You exact usury, everyone of his brother. I held a great assembly against them.
- Nehemiah 5:8 אַתֶּ֛ם pron pers 2mp I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.
- Nehemiah 5:9 אַתֶּ֣ם pron pers 2mp Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
- Nehemiah 5:11 אַתֶּ֖ם pron pers 2mp Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you exact of them.
- Nehemiah 5:12 אַתָּ֣ה pron pers 2ms Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
- Nehemiah 6:6 אַתָּ֤ה אַתָּ֥ה וְ/אַתָּ֗ה pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms in which was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause you are building the wall: and you would be their king, according to these words.
- Nehemiah 6:8 אַתָּ֣ה אַתָּ֥ה pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.
- Nehemiah 9:6 אַתָּה את אַתָּ֣ה וְ/אַתָּ֖ה pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms pron pers 2ms conj + pron pers 2ms You are Yahweh, even you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all; and the host of heaven worships you.
- Nehemiah 9:7 אַתָּה pron pers 2ms You are Yahweh the God, who did choose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,
- Nehemiah 9:8 אָֽתָּה pron pers 2ms and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
- Nehemiah 9:17 וְ/אַתָּה֩ conj + pron pers 2ms and refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them.
- Nehemiah 9:19 וְ/אַתָּה֙ conj + pron pers 2ms yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
- Nehemiah 9:27 וְ/אַתָּה֙ conj + pron pers 2ms Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.
- Nehemiah 9:28 וְ/אַתָּ֞ה conj + pron pers 2ms But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times did you deliver them according to your mercies,
- Nehemiah 9:31 אָֽתָּה pron pers 2ms Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
- Nehemiah 9:33 וְ/אַתָּ֣ה conj + pron pers 2ms However you are just in all that is come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;
- Nehemiah 13:17 אַתֶּ֣ם pron pers 2mp Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?
- Nehemiah 13:18 וְ/אַתֶּ֞ם conj + pron pers 2mp Didn't your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.
- Nehemiah 13:21 אַתֶּ֤ם pron pers 2mp Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why lodge you about the wall? if you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.
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.
