They
הִמּוֹStrong’s H1994himmo (him-mo)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Himmo is the Aramaic word usually translated “them” and “they”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.”
Meaning
- They, themthey (subject) · them (object)
How it's translated
- them 11
- they 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 8
- Daniel 3
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:35In contextThen was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 3:22In contextTherefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
- Ezra 4:10And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.
- Ezra 4:23Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
- Ezra 5:5But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
- Ezra 5:11And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
Aramaic dictionary
הִמּוֹ himmo · they
1) they, them 1a) they (subject) 1b) them (object)
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.