We
נַ֫חְנוּStrong’s H5168nachnu (nach-nu)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nachnu is the Hebrew word usually translated “we”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.”
Meaning
- We
How it's translated
- we 3
- and we 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- Lamentations 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 16:7And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
- Exodus 16:8And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.
- Numbers 32:32We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.
- Lamentations 3:42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
Hebrew dictionary
נַ֫חְנוּ nachnu · we
we Another spelling of a.nach.nu (אֲנַ֫חְנוּ "we" H0587) § 1) we
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.