Strong's Hebrew · H1931

הוּא

hûwʼ · hoo

he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.

Definition

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

Derivation

of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular;

Appears 1,860 times in Scripture

Genesis 2:19

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

Genesis 2:12

And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.

Genesis 3:12

And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Genesis 2:13

The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

Genesis 26:32

On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.

Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Genesis 2:14

The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:11

The name of the first river is the Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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