They(fem.)
הֵנָּהStrong’s H2007hennah (hen-nah)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Hennah is the Hebrew word usually translated “they” and “those”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”
Meaning
- They, these, the same, who
How it's translated
- they 25
- and they 3
- those 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 6
- Genesis 5
- Exodus 3
- Leviticus 2
- 1 Samuel 2
- Proverbs 2
12 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 21:29And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
- Genesis 33:6Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
- Genesis 41:26The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
- Genesis 41:27And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
- Exodus 1:19And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
- Exodus 9:32But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
Hebrew dictionary
הֵנָּה hennah · they(fem.)
they, these, the same, who A grammatical form of hu (הוּא "he/she/it" H1931)
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.