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They

אִנּוּןStrong’s H1992

innun (in-nun)

Appears in 513 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Innun is the Hebrew word usually translated “they”, “those” and “them”. It appears in 513 verses of the Old Testament.

“In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.”
Daniel 10:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. These, those, they
How it's translated
  • they 391
  • and they 97
  • those 58
  • them 2
  • that they 2
  • they broken down 1
  • who they 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 59
  • Jeremiah 57
  • 2 Kings 38
  • Numbers 30
  • Psalms 27
  • 1 Kings 24

34 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
All 513 verses, by book
Ruth 1
1:22
Ezra 1
2:59
Ecclesiastes 4
1:73:184:27:29
Song of Solomon 2
6:56:8
Lamentations 2
1:194:9
Daniel 2
10:211:14
Joel 2
2:293:1
Micah 1
4:12
Nahum 1
2:8
Zephaniah 2
2:123:13
Malachi 1
1:4
Hebrew dictionary

אִנּוּן innun · they

these, those, 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.]

  1. 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
  2. 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.