TBESH · H9023
הוּ · hu · his
Personal possessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 3rd person masculine singular
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הוּ (hu) means “his” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: hu STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
הוּ · hu · his
Personal possessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 3rd person masculine singular
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But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
Read word by wordAnd at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
Read word by wordHis sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
Read word by wordThis was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
Read word by wordAfter Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
Read word by wordIshmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
Read word by wordIshmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
Read word by wordLater, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
Read word by wordThe first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
Read word by wordAfter this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
Read word by wordBecause Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Read word by wordHe said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
Read word by word“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.
Read word by wordBut when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”
Read word by wordWhen Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
Read word by wordSo Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
Read word by wordSo the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
Read word by wordIsaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
Read word by wordSo Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.
Read word by wordLater, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.
Read word by wordAnd they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.
Read word by wordWhen Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
Read word by wordNow Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,
Read word by wordThen take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
Read word by wordJacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
Read word by wordWhat if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
Read word by wordHis mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
Read word by wordSo Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
Read word by wordShe also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
Read word by wordSo Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
Read word by wordJacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
Read word by wordBut Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.
Read word by wordSo Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Read word by wordIsaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
Read word by wordThen his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
Read word by wordSo he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
Read word by wordAs soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
Read word by wordHe too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
Read word by wordBut his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
Read word by wordWhen Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”
Read word by wordSo Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
Read word by wordBut Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
Read word by wordEsau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
Read word by wordHis father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
Read word by wordYou shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
Read word by wordEsau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Read word by wordand that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
Read word by wordAnd seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
Read word by wordEsau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
Read word by wordOn reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
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