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. Deuteronomy 20:20 הִ֨וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Only the trees of which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.

  2. Deuteronomy 21:3 הַהִ֜וא ha.Hiv' · Stands in for a person or thing

    and it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;

  3. Deuteronomy 21:4 הַהִ֤וא ha.Hiv' · Stands in for a person or thing

    and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

  4. Deuteronomy 21:6 הַהִ֔וא ha.Hiv' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

  5. Deuteronomy 21:17 הוּא֙ hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

  6. Deuteronomy 21:23 הַה֔וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

  7. Deuteronomy 22:17 ה֡וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    and, lo, he hath laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

  8. Deuteronomy 22:18 הַהִ֖וא ha.Hiv' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

  9. Deuteronomy 22:24 הַהִ֗וא ha.Hiv' · Stands in for a person or thing

    then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them to death with stones; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor's wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.

  10. Deuteronomy 23:7 ה֑וּא ס Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a sojourner in his land.

  11. Deuteronomy 24:4 הִ֖וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

  12. Deuteronomy 24:6 ה֥וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

  13. Deuteronomy 24:7 הַה֔וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

  14. Deuteronomy 24:12 ה֑וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

  15. Deuteronomy 24:15 ה֔וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee.

  16. Deuteronomy 24:15 ה֥וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee.

  17. Deuteronomy 27:11 הַה֖וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

  18. Deuteronomy 28:44 ה֣וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

  19. Deuteronomy 28:44 ה֚וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

  20. Deuteronomy 29:13 וְה֤וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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