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. 2 Samuel 19:3 הַה֖וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

  2. 2 Samuel 19:9 וְה֤וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from Absalom.

  3. 2 Samuel 19:32 וְהֽוּא־ ve.hu'- · Stands in for a person or thing

    Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

  4. 2 Samuel 19:32 ה֖וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

  5. 2 Samuel 20:8 וְה֥וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.

  6. 2 Samuel 21:16 וְה֖וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

  7. 2 Samuel 21:20 ה֖וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And there was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

  8. 2 Samuel 22:31 ה֔וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Jehovah is tried; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.

  9. 2 Samuel 23:8 ה֚וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain at one time.

  10. 2 Samuel 23:10 ה֣וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword; and Jehovah wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take spoil.

  11. 2 Samuel 23:10 הַה֑וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword; and Jehovah wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take spoil.

  12. 2 Samuel 23:18 ה֚וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

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

  13. 2 Samuel 23:18 וְהוּא֙ ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

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

  14. 2 Samuel 23:20 ה֣וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And 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.

  15. 2 Samuel 23:20 וְ֠הוּא Ve.hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And 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.

  16. 2 Samuel 23:21 וְהוּא־ ve.hu'- · Stands in for a person or thing

    And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but 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.

  17. 2 Samuel 24:13 וְה֣וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise thee, and consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

  18. 2 Samuel 24:18 הַה֑וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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