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HebrewH1931PerP-CS

הוּא

hu

1,605Occurrences
H1931Strong's #
PerP-CSPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are

of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
pron 3p s 1) he, she, it 1a) himself (with emphasis) 1b) resuming subj with emphasis 1c) (with minimum emphasis following predicate) 1d) (anticipating subj) 1e) (emphasising predicate) 1f) that, it (neuter) demons pron 2) that (with article)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

PerP-CS

Morphology Code

H:PerP-CS

Full Description

H:PerP-CS

Occurrences

הוּא appears 1,605 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
158
Leviticus
140
Isaiah
102
Deuteronomy
101
1 Samuel
81
Jeremiah
80
Ezk
77
Numbers
75

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:10BSB

Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

2 Samuel 2:16BSB

Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his sword into his opponent’s side, and they all fell together. So this place, which is in Gibeon, is called Helkath-hazzurim.

Ezk 39:11BSB

Verse text unavailable

Judges 13:21BSB

And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.

Leviticus 17:9BSB

but does not bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD, that man must be cut off from his people.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.