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הוּא

huhe/she/itHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentPronoun1,879 occurrences39 books1,692 verses

Definition

of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; he a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular; he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
Traditional renderings: he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders הוּא:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,879 total
  1. 2 Kings 4:9ה֑וּא · the one
    Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
  2. 2 Kings 5:7ה֖וּא · he
    When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
  3. 2 Kings 5:15ה֣וּא · Then Naaman
    Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “Now I know for sure that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
  4. 2 Kings 5:18וְה֣וּא׀ · and he
    Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my arm, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant in this matter.”
  5. 2 Kings 5:25וְהוּא־ · When Gehazi
    When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” “Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied.
  6. 2 Kings 6:5וְה֥וּא · it
    As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”
  7. 2 Kings 6:13ה֔וּא · he [is]
    So the king said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send men to capture him.” On receiving the report, “Elisha is in Dothan,”
  8. 2 Kings 6:30וְה֖וּא · And as he
    When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And as he passed by on the wall, the people saw the sackcloth under his clothes next to his skin.
  9. 2 Kings 6:32וְה֣וּא׀ · Elisha
    Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
  10. 2 Kings 7:7הִ֑יא
    Thus the Arameans had arisen and fled at twilight, abandoning their tents and horses and donkeys. The camp was intact, and they had run for their lives.
  11. 2 Kings 7:9ה֔וּא
    Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
  12. 2 Kings 8:2הִיא֙ · And she
    So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instructed. And she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines.
  13. 2 Kings 8:5ה֥וּא · Gehazi
    And Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”
  14. 2 Kings 8:21ה֞וּא · he
    So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night. His troops, however, fled to their homes.
  15. 2 Kings 8:22הַהִֽיא׃ · at the same
    So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled at the same time.
  16. 2 Kings 8:27הֽוּא׃ · he
    And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
  17. 2 Kings 8:29הֽוּא׃פ · [Joram]
    So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.
  18. 2 Kings 9:14ה֚וּא
    Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,
  19. 2 Kings 9:34הִֽיא׃ · she [was]
    Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of this cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.”
  20. 2 Kings 9:36ה֔וּא · This
    So they went back and told Jehu, who replied, “This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour the flesh of Jezebel.
  21. 2 Kings 10:12ה֛וּא
    Then Jehu set out toward Samaria. At Beth-eked of the Shepherds,
  22. 2 Kings 14:7הוּא־ · Amaziah
    Amaziah struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.
  23. 2 Kings 14:11ה֖וּא · He
    But Amaziah would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel advanced. He and King Amaziah of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
  24. 2 Kings 14:21וְה֕וּא · who
    Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
  25. 2 Kings 14:22ה֚וּא · [Azariah was the one]
    Azariah was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.
  26. 2 Kings 14:25ה֗וּא · [This Jeroboam]
    This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
  27. 2 Kings 15:12ה֣וּא
    So the word of the LORD spoken to Jehu was fulfilled: “Four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
  28. 2 Kings 15:35ה֗וּא · Jotham
    Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.
  29. 2 Kings 16:6הַהִ֗יא · At that
    At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.
  30. 2 Kings 17:39וְהוּא֙ · and He
    …but worship the LORD your God, and He will deliver you from the hands of all your enemies.”
  31. 2 Kings 18:4ה֣וּא׀
    He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
  32. 2 Kings 18:8הֽוּא־ · He
    He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.
  33. 2 Kings 18:9הִ֚יא · which
    In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.
  34. 2 Kings 18:10הִ֣יא · which
    And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.
  35. 2 Kings 18:16הַהִ֗יא · At that
    At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold with which he had plated the doors and doorposts of the temple of the LORD, and he gave it to the king of Assyria.
  36. 2 Kings 18:22ה֗וּא · is He
    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
  37. 2 Kings 18:36הִ֛יא
    But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
  38. 2 Kings 19:15ה֤וּא
    And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
  39. 2 Kings 19:35הַהוּא֒ · that very
    And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
  40. 2 Kings 19:37ה֨וּא · while he
    One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
  41. 2 Kings 20:12הַהִ֡יא · At that
    At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness.
  42. 2 Kings 22:13הִיא֙
    “Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”
  43. 2 Kings 22:14וְהִ֛יא · She
    So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
  44. 2 Kings 23:15הַה֛וּא
    He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.
  45. 2 Kings 24:10הַהִ֔יא · At that
    At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
  46. 2 Kings 24:12ה֣וּא
    Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.
  47. 2 Kings 25:1ה֧וּא
    So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
  48. 2 Kings 25:8הִ֗יא
    On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
  49. 2 Kings 25:19ה֥וּא
    Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
  50. 1 Chronicles 1:10ה֣וּא · who
    Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.