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He/she/it

הוּאStrong’s H1931

hu

Appears in 1,691 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Hu is the Hebrew word usually translated “he”, “that” and “it”. It appears in 1,691 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.”
Daniel 8:21 KJV
Meaning
  1. He, she, ithimself (with emphasis) · resuming subj with emphasis · (with minimum emphasis following predicate) · (anticipating subj) · (emphasising predicate) · that, it (neuter) demons pron
  2. That (with article)
How it's translated
  • he 548
  • that 540
  • it 441
  • and he 193
  • she 87
  • and it 36
  • and she 27
  • and that 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 164
  • Leviticus 145
  • Deuteronomy 109
  • Isaiah 103
  • 1 Samuel 87
  • Ezekiel 82

39 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
All 1,691 verses, by book
Song of Solomon 2
6:98:9
Lamentations 5
1:31:41:81:183:10
Obadiah 1
1:8
Jonah 1
1:10
Habakkuk 4
1:71:102:52:19
Hebrew dictionary

הוּא hu · he/she/it

pron 3p s 1) he, she, it 1a) himself (with emphasis) 1b) resuming subj with emphasis 1c) (with minimum emphasis following predicate) 1d) (anticipating subj) 1e) (emphasising predicate) 1f) that, it (neuter) demons pron 2) that (with article)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “he” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

HE, pronoun

of the third person; nom. he; poss.his; obj. him. [Latin id, for hid; hic.]

  1. A pronoun, a substitute for the third person, masculine gender, representing the man or male person named before.“Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee” Genesis 3:16“Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve” Deuteronomy 6:13
  2. It often has reference to a person that is named in the subsequent part of the sentence. he is the man.
  3. he is often used without reference to any particular person, and may be referred to any person indefinitely that answers the description.“HE that walketh with wise men, shall be wise” Proverbs 13:20
  4. he when a substitute for man in its general sense, expressing mankind, is of common gender, representing, like its antecedent, the whole human race.“My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh” Genesis 6:3
All definitions
  1. Man; a male.
  2. he is sometimes prefixed to the names of animals to designate the male kind, as a he-goat, a he-bear.

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.