הוּא

hu · he/she/it

Hebrew · Strong's H1931 · Pronoun · Sounds like: hoo · 1,878 occurrences

English

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular; 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; he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
הוּא m. הִיא f., pron. of the 3rd ps. sing. he, she, used also (in both genders) for the neuter it
1. an emph. he (she, it, they), sometimes equivalent to himself (herself, itself, themselves), or (esp. with the art.) that (those)
2. It resumes the subj. with emph.
3. Where, however, the pron. follows the pred., its position gives it the minimum of emphasis, and it expresses (or resumes) the subject as unobtrusively as possible
4. It anticipates (as it seems) the subject
5. As an emph. predicate, of God
6. In a neuter sense, that, it (of an action, occurrence, matte, etc.)
7. With the art.: so regularly when joined to a subst. defined itself by the art.

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Chronicles 11:13 הֽוּא־ hu'- · Stands in for a person or thing

    He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.

  2. 1 Chronicles 11:20 ה֤וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three.

  3. 1 Chronicles 11:20 וְהוּא֙ ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three.

  4. 1 Chronicles 11:22 ה֣וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

  5. 1 Chronicles 11:22 וְ֠הוּא Ve.hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

  6. 1 Chronicles 11:23 וְהֽוּא־ ve.hu'- · Stands in for a person or thing

    And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

  7. 1 Chronicles 11:25 ה֔וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

  8. 1 Chronicles 12:15 וְה֥וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    These are they that went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.

  9. 1 Chronicles 13:11 הַהוּא֙ ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And David was displeased, because Jehovah had broken forth upon Uzza; and he called that place Perez-uzza, unto this day.

  10. 1 Chronicles 13:12 הַה֖וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?

  11. 1 Chronicles 14:11 הַה֖וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    So they came up to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and David said, God hath broken mine enemies by my hand, like the breach of waters. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

  12. 1 Chronicles 15:22 הֽוּא׃ Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.

  13. 1 Chronicles 16:7 הַה֗וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Then on that day did David first ordain to give thanks unto Jehovah, by the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

  14. 1 Chronicles 16:14 ה֚וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    He is Jehovah our God; His judgments are in all the earth.

  15. 1 Chronicles 16:25 ה֖וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised: He also is to be feared above all gods.

  16. 1 Chronicles 17:3 הַה֑וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

  17. 1 Chronicles 17:12 ה֥וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for ever.

  18. 1 Chronicles 17:13 וְה֖וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my lovingkindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee;

  19. 1 Chronicles 17:26 ה֖וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And now, O Jehovah, thou art God, and hast promised this good thing unto thy servant:

  20. 1 Chronicles 20:6 ה֖וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And there was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born unto the giant.

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