הוּא

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. Leviticus 22:12הִ֕וא · she
    If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.
  2. Leviticus 22:30הַהוּא֙ · that same
    It must be eaten that same day. Do not leave any of it until morning. I am the LORD.
  3. Leviticus 23:3הִוא֙ · it
    For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.
  4. Leviticus 23:27ה֗וּא
    “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present a food offering to the LORD.
  5. Leviticus 23:28ה֔וּא · it
    On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.
  6. Leviticus 23:30הַהִ֖וא
    I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day.
  7. Leviticus 23:32הוּא֙ · It
    It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”
  8. Leviticus 23:36הִ֔וא · It [is]
    For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
  9. Leviticus 24:9ה֥וּא · it [is]
    It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place; for it is to him a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD—his portion forever.”
  10. Leviticus 24:10וְהוּא֙
    Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.
  11. Leviticus 25:10הִוא֙ · It
    So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
  12. Leviticus 25:11הִ֗וא
    The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.
  13. Leviticus 25:12הִ֔וא · it [is]
    For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.
  14. Leviticus 25:16ה֥וּא · he
    You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.
  15. Leviticus 25:33הִ֚וא
    So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.
  16. Leviticus 25:34ה֖וּא · this
    But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.
  17. Leviticus 25:41ה֖וּא · Then he
    Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.
  18. Leviticus 25:54ה֖וּא · he
    Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.
  19. Leviticus 27:4הִ֑וא · it
    Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
  20. Leviticus 27:8הוּא֙ · [the one making the vow]
    But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.
  21. Leviticus 27:10ה֥וּא · both that animal
    He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.
  22. Leviticus 27:23הַה֔וּא · on that
    …then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.
  23. Leviticus 27:26הֽוּא׃ · it [is]
    But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.
  24. Leviticus 27:28ה֖וּא
    Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
  25. Leviticus 27:30ה֑וּא · it
    Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
  26. Leviticus 27:33ה֧וּא · both the animal
    He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”
  27. Numbers 1:4הֽוּא׃
    And one man from each tribe, the head of each family, must be there with you.
  28. Numbers 5:6הַהִֽוא׃ · that
    “Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty
  29. Numbers 5:13וְהִ֣יא · and her; וְהִ֖וא · and she
    …by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),
  30. Numbers 5:14וְהִ֣וא · who; וְהִ֖יא · even though she
    …and if a feeling of jealousy comes over her husband and he suspects his wife who has defiled herself—or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he suspects her even though she has not defiled herself—
  31. Numbers 5:15ה֔וּא · it
    …then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.
  32. Numbers 5:18הִ֑וא · which
    After the priest has the woman stand before the LORD, he is to let down her hair and place in her hands the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering for jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse.
  33. Numbers 5:28הִ֑וא · she
    But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.
  34. Numbers 5:31הַהִ֔וא · but the
    The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”
  35. Numbers 6:8ה֖וּא · he
    Throughout the time of his separation, he is holy to the LORD.
  36. Numbers 6:11הַהֽוּא׃ · On that
    And the priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement for him, because he has sinned by being in the presence of the dead body. On that day he must consecrate his head again.
  37. Numbers 6:20הוּא֙ · This
    The priest shall then wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. This is a holy portion for the priest, in addition to the breast of the wave offering and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.
  38. Numbers 8:4הִ֑וא
    This is how the lampstand was constructed: it was made of hammered gold from its base to its blossoms, fashioned according to the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.
  39. Numbers 9:6הַה֑וּא · on that; הַהֽוּא׃ · that same
    But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
  40. Numbers 9:13ה֨וּא · is; הַהִ֖וא; הַהֽוּא׃ · That
    But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
  41. Numbers 10:32הַה֗וּא
    If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
  42. Numbers 11:3הַה֖וּא · So that
    So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.
  43. Numbers 11:7ה֑וּא
    Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.
  44. Numbers 11:30ה֖וּא
    Then Moses returned to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.
  45. Numbers 11:32הַה֨וּא · that
    All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.