הוּא (hu) means “he/she/it” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: hoo Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
הוּא · hu · he/she/it
pron 3p s 1) he, she, it 1a) himself (with emphasis) 1b) resuming subj with emphasis 1c) (with minimum emphasis following predicate) 1d) (anticipating subj) 1e) (emphasising predicate) 1f) that, it (neuter) demons pron 2) that (with article)
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of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; 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
KJV glosses: he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| he | 254 |
| it | 118 |
| that | 109 |
| on that | 87 |
| at that | 48 |
| she | 46 |
| and he | 42 |
| that is | 41 |
| this | 40 |
| in that | 38 |
| who | 31 |
| it is | 25 |
| they | 23 |
| but he | 13 |
| himself | 13 |
| and that | 12 |
| he is | 12 |
| is | 12 |
| and on that | 9 |
| and she | 9 |
| is he | 9 |
| vvv | 9 |
| while he | 9 |
| and at that | 8 |
| and it | 8 |
| that same | 8 |
| the | 8 |
| am he | 7 |
| and | 7 |
| it was | 7 |
| which | 7 |
| he was | 6 |
| of that | 6 |
| so that | 6 |
| then he | 5 |
| this is | 5 |
| against that | 4 |
| and as he | 4 |
| and they | 4 |
| are | 4 |
| but it | 4 |
| is it | 4 |
| so at that | 4 |
| when he | 4 |
| but that | 3 |
| for he | 3 |
| for that | 3 |
| from that | 3 |
| him | 3 |
| his | 3 |
| is the one | 3 |
| is the one who | 3 |
| jotham | 3 |
| she is | 3 |
| that very | 3 |
| the one | 3 |
| the person | 3 |
| these | 3 |
| throughout that | 3 |
| was | 3 |
| and he himself | 2 |
| and in that | 2 |
| as she | 2 |
| at the same | 2 |
| balaam | 2 |
| but at that | 2 |
| but the | 2 |
| but this | 2 |
| but when he | 2 |
| david | 2 |
| does he | 2 |
| for she | 2 |
| he himself | 2 |
| he is still | 2 |
| in such | 2 |
| is this | 2 |
| it is he | 2 |
| joram | 2 |
| on that same | 2 |
| only he | 2 |
| she was | 2 |
| since he | 2 |
| so he | 2 |
| so on that | 2 |
| so she | 2 |
| such | 2 |
| that would be | 2 |
| the article | 2 |
| the city | 2 |
| them | 2 |
| they are | 2 |
| when that | 2 |
| whoever | 2 |
| about something he | 1 |
| above | 1 |
| abraham | 1 |
| abram | 1 |
| achan | 1 |
| adonijah was | 1 |
| after arba | 1 |
| after ehud | 1 |
| against this | 1 |
| ahaziah | 1 |
| am he who knows | 1 |
| am the one | 1 |
| amaziah | 1 |
| and as soon as she | 1 |
| and at the same | 1 |
| and eli | 1 |
| and from that | 1 |
| and he became their leader | 1 |
| and he is | 1 |
| and he too | 1 |
| and he was | 1 |
| and her | 1 |
| and it was | 1 |
| and on that same | 1 |
| and only the man | 1 |
| and she herself | 1 |
| and that it | 1 |
| and that very | 1 |
| and the city | 1 |
| and the woman | 1 |
| and who | 1 |
| and yet he | 1 |
| are he | 1 |
| as abigail | 1 |
| as he | 1 |
| as it | 1 |
| at the regular | 1 |
| azariah was the one | 1 |
| baal | 1 |
| beerah | 1 |
| belongs | 1 |
| both him | 1 |
| both that animal | 1 |
| both the animal | 1 |
| both the chief baker | 1 |
| but as he | 1 |
| but as saul | 1 |
| but eleazar | 1 |
| but he is | 1 |
| but he is unchangeable | 1 |
| but he then | 1 |
| but if that | 1 |
| but it was he | 1 |
| but jacob himself | 1 |
| but on that | 1 |
| but only the one | 1 |
| but rahab | 1 |
| but they | 1 |
| but when | 1 |
| by that | 1 |
| can it | 1 |
| comes | 1 |
| death | 1 |
| does not the one | 1 |
| during that | 1 |
| elisha | 1 |
| elkanah | 1 |
| even | 1 |
| even those | 1 |
| even though she | 1 |
| finally saul himself | 1 |
| for at that | 1 |
| for elijah | 1 |
| for he is such | 1 |
| for that is all she is | 1 |
| for this joy | 1 |
| for what he | 1 |
| for whom | 1 |
| from his | 1 |
| from which | 1 |
| gehazi | 1 |
| had taken | 1 |
| has changed | 1 |
| has he not | 1 |
| he became | 1 |
| he has | 1 |
| he is to be feared | 1 |
| he must be | 1 |
| he was a | 1 |
| he was the one who | 1 |
| herself | 1 |
| his cloak | 1 |
| his relation | 1 |
| however while elah | 1 |
| if he | 1 |
| if only that | 1 |
| in | 1 |
| in the | 1 |
| into his own | 1 |
| is like | 1 |
| is mine | 1 |
| is that | 1 |
| is the | 1 |
| is there | 1 |
| it had been | 1 |
| it has | 1 |
| it is the lord | 1 |
| it shall be | 1 |
| it was he | 1 |
| it was this | 1 |
| it will be | 1 |
| jacob | 1 |
| jehoram | 1 |
| job was the | 1 |
| jonathan | 1 |
| joseph | 1 |
| let it | 1 |
| let it be | 1 |
| machir | 1 |
| man | 1 |
| may | 1 |
| may he | 1 |
| may she | 1 |
| may that | 1 |
| moreover ahaz | 1 |
| moses | 1 |
| now abram | 1 |
| now ahijah | 1 |
| now she | 1 |
| of that same | 1 |
| of that very | 1 |
| of the lord | 1 |
| of the same | 1 |
| of this | 1 |
| on that very | 1 |
| on that very same | 1 |
| on the very | 1 |
| one | 1 |
| only | 1 |
| or | 1 |
| out of that | 1 |
| rahab | 1 |
| remain the same | 1 |
| ruth | 1 |
| saul | 1 |
| shall be | 1 |
| she herself | 1 |
| shem | 1 |
| since it | 1 |
| since lot | 1 |
| since the exile | 1 |
| so man | 1 |
| so that he | 1 |
| so that very | 1 |
| so this | 1 |
| solomon | 1 |
| such a | 1 |
| tamar | 1 |
| that he | 1 |
| that man is | 1 |
| that on that | 1 |
| that part belongs | 1 |
| that slave | 1 |
| that son | 1 |
| the altar is | 1 |
| the animal | 1 |
| the child | 1 |
| the city was | 1 |
| the food | 1 |
| the lord | 1 |
| the man | 1 |
| the one making the vow | 1 |
| the priest | 1 |
| the seed | 1 |
| the servant | 1 |
| the servant is | 1 |
| the sin | 1 |
| the sword | 1 |
| the wind | 1 |
| then | 1 |
| then it is | 1 |
| then naaman | 1 |
| then saul | 1 |
| then she | 1 |
| then that | 1 |
| then that one | 1 |
| then they | 1 |
| there is | 1 |
| these things | 1 |
| they are to | 1 |
| they will know | 1 |
| this had come | 1 |
| this jeroboam | 1 |
| this thing | 1 |
| this will be | 1 |
| though he | 1 |
| though it | 1 |
| though she is | 1 |
| though the father | 1 |
| throughout | 1 |
| to that | 1 |
| upon which | 1 |
| uzziah was the one | 1 |
| was he | 1 |
| was it | 1 |
| was it not | 1 |
| what | 1 |
| when | 1 |
| when gaal | 1 |
| when gehazi | 1 |
| when it is | 1 |
| where she | 1 |
| where they | 1 |
| whether | 1 |
| which is | 1 |
| while he himself | 1 |
| while ish-bosheth | 1 |
| while jeremiah | 1 |
| while the king | 1 |
| while they | 1 |
| who that very | 1 |
| who was | 1 |
| will be the same | 1 |
| will bring about | 1 |
| will himself | 1 |
| with the help of | 1 |
| with which | 1 |
| yes he | 1 |
| yet | 1 |
| yet he | 1 |
| yet it | 1 |
| you | 1 |
| you can | 1 |
| you were | 1 |
| your vow | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| she | 3 |
| that | 3 |
| which | 3 |
| and this | 2 |
| he | 2 |
| the same | 2 |
| this | 2 |
| and ham | 1 |
| and she | 1 |
| and that it | 1 |
| at the same | 1 |
| he not unto me she | 1 |
| him he | 1 |
| in her | 1 |
| in the same | 1 |
| no more such | 1 |
| not clean | 1 |
| not this | 1 |
| of that | 1 |
| of the | 1 |
| there for that | 1 |
| these | 1 |
| they | 1 |
| those | 1 |
| to him | 1 |
| unto and it | 1 |
| wherein | 1 |
| which is | 1 |
Page 15 of 34. 1692 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
Read word by wordthe men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
Read word by wordThat day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
Read word by wordAnd at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.
Read word by wordAnd at that time, each of the Israelites returned from there to his own tribe and clan, each to his own inheritance.
Read word by wordIn the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.
Read word by wordThen Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,
Read word by wordWhen Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
Read word by wordWhen Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.
Read word by wordThe foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.
Read word by wordThen Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”
Read word by wordNow is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
Read word by wordWhen he lies down, note the place where he lies. Then go in and uncover his feet, and lie down, and he will explain to you what you should do.”
Read word by wordHe will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
Read word by wordThe neighbor women said, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.
Read word by wordYear after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
Read word by wordIn her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
Read word by wordHannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk
Read word by wordI now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” So they worshiped the LORD there.
Read word by wordAnd at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room.
Read word by wordOn that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his house, from beginning to end.
Read word by wordSo Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”
Read word by wordThat same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line all the way to Shiloh, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.
Read word by wordAs soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
Read word by wordbut keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
Read word by wordAnd the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the chest containing the gold objects, and they placed them on the large rock. That day the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.
Read word by wordAnd when the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ekron that same day.
Read word by wordWhen they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
Read word by wordAs the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel, Samuel was offering up the burnt offering. But that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.
Read word by wordWhen that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”
Read word by wordAs soon as you enter the city, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests will eat. Go up at once; you will find him.”
Read word by wordSo the cook picked up the leg and what was attached to it and set it before Saul. Then Samuel said, “Here is what was kept back. It was set apart for you. Eat, for it has been kept for you for this occasion, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul dined with Samuel that day.
Read word by wordThey got up early in the morning, and just before dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way!” So Saul got ready, and both he and Samuel went outside together.
Read word by wordAs Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all the signs came to pass that day.
Read word by wordBut today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”
Read word by wordSo again they inquired of the LORD, “Has the man come here yet?” And the LORD replied, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”
Read word by wordSo Samuel called to the LORD, and on that day the LORD sent thunder and rain. As a result, all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
Read word by wordThen Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the ark of God.” (For at that time it was with the Israelites.)
Read word by wordSo the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle moved on beyond Beth-aven.
Read word by wordNow the men of Israel were in distress that day, for Saul had placed the troops under an oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food before evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies.” So none of the troops tasted any food.
Read word by wordThat day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
Read word by wordSo Saul inquired of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You give them into the hand of Israel?” But God did not answer him that day.
Read word by wordMoreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
Read word by wordSo Jesse sent for his youngest son and brought him in. He was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, “Rise and anoint him, for he is the one.”
Read word by wordSo Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.
Read word by wordand he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,
Read word by wordAnd David was the youngest. The three oldest had followed Saul,
Read word by wordAnd as he was speaking with them, suddenly the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, came forward from the ranks of the Philistines and shouted his usual words, which David also heard.
Read word by word“What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”
Read word by wordBut Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
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