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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. Esther 1:11הִֽיא׃ · she [was]
    …to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.
  2. Esther 1:20הִ֑יא
    The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.”
  3. Esther 2:7הִ֤יא · (that is
    And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter.
  4. Esther 2:14הִ֣יא · She; הִ֣יא · she
    She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.
  5. Esther 2:16הוּא־
    She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
  6. Esther 3:4ה֥וּא · he
    Day after day they warned him, but he would not comply. So they reported it to Haman to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, since he had told them he was a Jew.
  7. Esther 3:7הוּא־; ה֨וּא · (that is; הוּא־
    In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
  8. Esther 3:13הוּא־
    And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
  9. Esther 5:9הַה֔וּא · That
    That day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the king’s gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.
  10. Esther 6:1הַה֔וּא · That
    That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
  11. Esther 7:5ה֥וּא · is the one; ה֔וּא
    Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”
  12. Esther 8:1הַה֗וּא · That same; הוּא־ · his relation
    That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.
  13. Esther 8:9הַ֠הִיא; הוּא־
    At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
  14. Esther 8:12הוּא־
    The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
  15. Esther 9:1הוּא־; ה֔וּא
    On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
  16. Esther 9:11הַה֗וּא · On that
    On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,
  17. Esther 9:24ה֣וּא · (that is
    For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.
  18. Job 1:1הַה֗וּא
    There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
  19. Job 1:3הַה֔וּא · [Job was] the
    …and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
  20. Job 2:8וְה֖וּא · as he
    And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
  21. Job 3:4הַה֗וּא · If only that
    If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
  22. Job 3:6הַהוּא֮ · had taken
    If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
  23. Job 3:7הַ֭הוּא · may that
    Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
  24. Job 3:19ה֑וּא
    Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
  25. Job 4:7ה֣וּא
    Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
  26. Job 5:18ה֣וּא · He
    For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
  27. Job 5:27הִ֑יא · and it
    Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”
  28. Job 8:16ה֭וּא · He
    He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.
  29. Job 8:19ה֭וּא · this
    Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.
  30. Job 9:22הִ֥יא · It; ה֣וּא · He
    It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
  31. Job 9:24הֽוּא׃ · [is] it
    The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
  32. Job 11:11ה֭וּא · He
    Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?
  33. Job 13:16הוּא־ · this will be
    Moreover, this will be my salvation, for no godless man can appear before Him.
  34. Job 13:19ה֭וּא
    Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
  35. Job 13:28וְ֭הוּא · So man
    So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
  36. Job 15:9הֽוּא׃
    What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
  37. Job 15:20ה֣וּא · his
    A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
  38. Job 15:22ה֣וּא · he
    He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
  39. Job 15:23ה֣וּא · He
    He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
  40. Job 17:3ה֝֗וּא
    Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?
  41. Job 21:22וְ֝ה֗וּא · since He
    Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
  42. Job 21:31וְהֽוּא־ · for what he
    Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?