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. Job 15:20 ה֣וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

  2. Job 15:22 ה֣וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.

  3. Job 15:23 ה֣וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  4. Job 17:3 ה֝֗וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?

  5. Job 21:22 וְ֝ה֗וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?

  6. Job 21:31 וְהֽוּא־ ve.hu'- · Stands in for a person or thing

    Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?

  7. Job 21:32 וְ֭הוּא Ve.hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

  8. Job 22:18 וְה֤וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Yet he filled their houses with good things: But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  9. Job 23:6 ה֝֗וּא Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.

  10. Job 23:13 וְה֣וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

  11. Job 24:18 ה֤וּא׀ hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

  12. Job 28:3 ה֣וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

  13. Job 28:14 הִ֑יא Hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    The deep saith, It is not in me; And the sea saith, It is not with me.

  14. Job 28:23 וְ֝ה֗וּא ve.Hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the place thereof.

  15. Job 28:24 ה֭וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under the whole heaven;

  16. Job 28:28 הִ֣יא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.

  17. Job 31:4 ה֭וּא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?

  18. Job 31:11 הִ֥יא hu' · Stands in for a person or thing

    For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

  19. Job 31:11 וְ֝ה֗וּא ve.hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

  20. Job 31:12 הִ֭יא hi' · Stands in for a person or thing

    For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

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