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. Exodus 12:11 ה֖וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is Jehovah's passover.

  2. Exodus 12:15 הַהִוא֙ ha.hi.V' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

  3. Exodus 12:16 ה֥וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

  4. Exodus 12:19 הַהִוא֙ ha.hi.V' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land.

  5. Exodus 12:27 ה֜וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

  6. Exodus 12:30 ה֤וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

  7. Exodus 12:42 הוּא֙ hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    It is a night to be much observed unto Jehovah for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of Jehovah, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

  8. Exodus 12:42 הֽוּא־ hu'- · Stands in for a person or thing

    It is a night to be much observed unto Jehovah for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of Jehovah, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

  9. Exodus 13:2 הֽוּא׃ Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Sanctify unto me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

  10. Exodus 13:8 הַה֖וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, It is because of that which Jehovah did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.

  11. Exodus 13:17 ה֑וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

  12. Exodus 14:30 הַה֛וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore.

  13. Exodus 16:15 ה֔וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat.

  14. Exodus 16:15 ה֑וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat.

  15. Exodus 16:15 ה֣וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat.

  16. Exodus 16:23 ה֚וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And he said unto them, This is that which Jehovah hath spoken, To-morrow is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath unto Jehovah: bake that which ye will bake, and boil that which ye will boil; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

  17. Exodus 16:29 ה֣וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

  18. Exodus 16:31 וְה֗וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

  19. Exodus 16:36 הֽוּא׃ פ Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

  20. Exodus 18:5 ה֛וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mount of God:

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