They
אִנּוּןStrong’s H0581innun (in-nun)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Innun is the Aramaic word usually translated “they” and “those”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”
Meaning
- These, those, they
- They
How it's translated
- they 3
- those 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 6:24In contextAnd the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
- Daniel 7:17In contextThese great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
- Ezra 5:4Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?
Aramaic dictionary
אִנּוּן innun · they
these, those, they Aramaic of hem.mah (הֵ֫מָּה "they(masc.)" H1992)
אִנִּין innin · they(fem.)
they Aramaic of hem.mah (הֵ֫מָּה "they(masc.)" H1992)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “they” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THEY, pronoun
plural; objective case, them.]
- The men, the women, the animals, the things.“THEY and their fathers have transgressed against me” Ezekiel 2:3“THEY of Italy salute you” Hebrews 13:24“Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness” Matthew 5:6
- It is used indefinitely, as our ancestors used man, and as the French use on. they say, [on dit, ] that is, it is said by persons, indefinitely.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.