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 3 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.
then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.19
So Jacob’s gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.22
During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.23
The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.32
But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
Read word by wordSo that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,
Read word by word“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
Read word by wordThe young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
Read word by wordSo Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
Read word by wordSo Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Read word by wordJacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.
Read word by wordWhile Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Read word by wordJacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Read word by wordThis is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).
Read word by wordSo Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.
Read word by wordAll these are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and they were their chiefs.
Read word by wordThese are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
Read word by wordMagdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Esau was the father of the Edomites.
Read word by wordThis is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
Read word by wordNow Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
Read word by wordCome, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.
Read word by wordThey sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
Read word by wordAbout that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.
Read word by wordThen Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
Read word by wordAfter a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
Read word by wordshe removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
Read word by wordNot realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
Read word by wordHe asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
Read word by wordAs she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
Read word by wordWhen his master saw that the LORD was with him and made him prosper in all he did,
Read word by wordSo Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,
Read word by wordAnd the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.
Read word by wordThe warden did not concern himself with anything under Joseph’s care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.
Read word by wordand on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.
Read word by wordOne night both the chief baker and I had dreams, and each dream had its own meaning.
Read word by wordAt this, Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
Read word by wordThe seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.
Read word by wordIt is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.
Read word by wordThe abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.
Read word by wordNow Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
Read word by wordThen Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!
Read word by wordAt the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of the sack.
Read word by wordBut Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
Read word by wordTake double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.
Read word by wordThey separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.
Read word by wordIs this not the cup my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wicked!’”
Read word by word“As you say,” replied the steward. “But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame.”
Read word by wordWhen Judah and his brothers arrived at Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.
Read word by wordBut Joseph replied, “Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace.”
Read word by wordAnd we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
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