We
אֲנוּStrong’s H0587anu (a-nu)
Appears in 115 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anu is the Hebrew word usually translated “we”. It appears in 115 verses of the Old Testament.
“O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.”
Meaning
- We (first pers.
How it's translated
- we 89
- and we 31
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 16
- Nehemiah 15
- Jeremiah 10
- Joshua 8
- 2 Kings 8
- Psalms 8
23 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 13:8And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
- Genesis 19:13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
- Genesis 29:4And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
- Genesis 37:7For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
- Genesis 42:11We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
- Genesis 42:13And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
All 115 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אֲנוּ anu · we
we (first pers. pl. -usually used for emphasis) Another spelling of a.nach.nu (אֲנַ֫חְנוּ "we" H0587)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “we” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WE, pronoun
plural of I; or rather a different word, denoting the person speaking and another or others with him. I and John, the speaker calls we or I and John and Thomas; or I and many others. In the objective case, us. we is used to express men in general, including the speaker.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.