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 29:12 ה֑וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.

  2. Genesis 29:25 הִ֖וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

  3. Genesis 30:16 הֽוּא׃ Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

  4. Genesis 30:33 ה֖וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when thou shalt come concerning my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.

  5. Genesis 30:35 הַה֨וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons;

  6. Genesis 31:16 ה֖וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

  7. Genesis 31:20 הֽוּא׃ Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

  8. Genesis 31:21 הוּא֙ hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

  9. Genesis 31:43 ה֑וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom they have borne?

  10. Genesis 32:2 הַה֖וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

  11. Genesis 32:13 הַה֑וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And he lodged there that night, and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother:

  12. Genesis 32:18 הִוא֙ hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    then thou shalt say, They are thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, he also is behind us.

  13. Genesis 32:18 ה֖וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    then thou shalt say, They are thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, he also is behind us.

  14. Genesis 32:21 וְה֛וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the company.

  15. Genesis 32:21 הַה֖וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the company.

  16. Genesis 32:22 ה֗וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.

  17. Genesis 32:31 וְה֥וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Penuel, and he limped upon his thigh.

  18. Genesis 33:3 וְה֖וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

  19. Genesis 33:16 הַה֥וּא ha.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

  20. Genesis 34:14 הִ֖וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    and said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us.

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