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 34:19 וְה֣וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was honored above all the house of his father.

  2. Genesis 35:6 הִ֖וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him.

  3. Genesis 35:6 ה֖וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him.

  4. Genesis 35:19 הִ֖וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).

  5. Genesis 35:20 הִ֛וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave: the same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

  6. Genesis 35:22 הַהִ֔וא ha.Hiv' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

  7. Genesis 35:27 הִ֣וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

  8. Genesis 36:1 ה֥וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Now these are the generations of Esau (the same is Edom).

  9. Genesis 36:8 ה֥וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

  10. Genesis 36:19 ה֥וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs: the same is Edom.

  11. Genesis 36:24 ה֣וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; this is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

  12. Genesis 36:43 ה֥וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    chief Magdiel, chief Iram: these are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

  13. Genesis 37:2 וְה֣וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought the evil report of them unto their father.

  14. Genesis 37:3 ה֖וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.

  15. Genesis 37:27 ה֑וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened unto him.

  16. Genesis 37:32 הִ֖וא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    and they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found: know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.

  17. Genesis 38:1 הַהִ֔וא ha.Hiv' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

  18. Genesis 38:11 ה֖וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up; for he said, Lest he also die, like his brethren. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

  19. Genesis 38:12 ה֗וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

  20. Genesis 38:14 וְהִ֕וא ve.Hiv' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And she put off from her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was not given unto him to wife.

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