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. Genesis 20:5 הִ֥וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this.

  2. Genesis 20:5 ה֑וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this.

  3. Genesis 20:7 ה֔וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Now therefore restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

  4. Genesis 20:12 הִ֔וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:

  5. Genesis 20:13 הֽוּא׃ Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    and it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me: at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

  6. Genesis 20:16 הוּא־ hu'- · Stands in for a person or thing

    And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with thee; and in respect of all thou art righted.

  7. Genesis 21:13 הֽוּא׃ Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

  8. Genesis 21:17 הוּא־ hu'- · Stands in for a person or thing

    And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

  9. Genesis 21:22 הַהִ֔וא ha.Hiv' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

  10. Genesis 21:31 הַה֖וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

  11. Genesis 22:14 הַה֖וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of Jehovah it shall be provided.

  12. Genesis 22:20 הִ֛וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto thy brother Nahor:

  13. Genesis 22:24 הִוא֙ hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.

  14. Genesis 23:2 הִ֥וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

  15. Genesis 23:15 הִ֑וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    My lord, hearken unto me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

  16. Genesis 23:19 הִ֣וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

  17. Genesis 24:7 ה֗וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spake unto me, and who sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.

  18. Genesis 24:15 ה֗וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

  19. Genesis 24:44 הִ֣וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom Jehovah hath appointed for my master's son.

  20. Genesis 24:54 ה֛וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.

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