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Egyptian Aramaic הו, f. הי, Lzb257, S-CPap. A 1, 12 +; A 4, C 9 +. The pl. is אִנּוּן, q.v.);—he, she, it, Dn 2:21 וְהוּא מְהַשְׁנֵא … and he will change, etc., v 22, 44; 6:5; 7:7, 24 Ezr 5:8; Dn 2:32 הוּא צַלְמָא that image (nom. pend.); 4:19 אַנְתָּה הוּא thou art it. Resuming the subj. with emph. (BH 2 b) 2:47; 6:17; resuming the subj. in predication (ib. 3 b) 2:20 חָכְמְתָא וּגְבוּרְתָּא דִּי־לֵהּ הִיא it is his, v 28. Anticipating the subj. (ib. 4 a) 2:9 הֲדָא הִיא דָֽתְכוֹן; with a pron. (ib. 4 b) 2:38 אַנְתְּה הוּא … thou art the head of gold 5:13; 3:15 מַן הוּא אֱלָהּ … who is the good …? (so pl. אִנּוּן Ezr 5:4); 4:27 הֲלָא דָא הִיא … (ib. 4 b γ); 6:27 דִּי הוּא … who is … (ib. 2 c), Ezr 6:15 (so דִּי אִנּוּן … Dn 7:17). \[cf. in 𝔗 Ex 14:25; 15:11 2 S 20:19; 24:17 ψ 43:2; 63:4; 66:3 +.\] Affirming existence (BH 6 b) Dn 4:21. cf. K§ 87, 3. הוּבַד v. \[אֲבַד\]. ### Jastrow 1903 הוּא: he, it; she; it is whosoever, whatsoever is whatever it may be, minimum the Book Hi [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5d5_5bc_5d0/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** (b. h.) he, it; she; it is &c. Snh. III, 3 (24ᵇ) if he has no trade אלא הוא (Y. ed., Erub. 82ᵃ היא) except this (gambling &c.); יש לו אומנות שלא הוא (היא) if he has a trade besides this (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 80).—הוא—הוא, היא—היא it is the same, i.e. there is no difference between the two. Y. Ber. I, 3ᵇ היא היא both are equally precious. Gen. R. s. 9, end הוא מאד הוא אדם the word מאד has the same letters as אדם. Ber. 2ᵇ דילמא ביאת אורו הוא perhaps it is (means) the arrival of his day, v. אוֹר II; a. v. fr.—\[Shebi. III, 8 עושה הוא; IV, 5 מכסה הוא, Y. ed. עוֹשֵׂהוּ, מְכַסֵּהוּ; ib. X, 6 מזכה הוא; Ms. M., Gitt. 37ᵃ מְזַכֵּהוּ.\]—ולא היא but it is not so (it has a different reason &c.). Ber. 57ᵃ; a. fr.—כל שהוא (כל שהיא) a) whosoever, whatsoever (is). Peah II, 4 כל ש׳ אוכל whatever is eatable &c.; a. fr.—b) whatever it may be, a minimum, v. כָּל. Shebi. X, 6 כל שהוא; Gitt. l. c. כל שֶׁהוּ; a. fr.—ספר היא the Book Hi, name of a Pentateuch scroll in the Temple in which היא occurs nine times (for the archaic הִוא), whereas in others it appears eleven times (v. Ab. d’R. N. ch. XXXIV, ed. Schechter). Sifré Deut. 356; Y. Taan. IV, 68ᵃ bot.—הַהוּא, הַהִיא, mostly in Chald. diction, v. next w.—Pl. הֵם m., הֵן c. Ber. 2ᵇ והלא כהנים … הם טובלים but do not priests bathe &c.?—Meg. 14ᵇ רהמניות הן are compassionate. Ḥull. 127ᵇ הרי הן וכ׳ they are to be treated as if &c.; a. v. fr.—הן … הן are the same. Y. Ab. Zar. II, end, 42ᵃ, v. אִסְטַגְיוֹת.—With prep. מֵהֶם, מֵהֶן, לָהֶם &c. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 21 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (15 candidates) ## Glosses MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: his (86); its (64); him (47). ## In the verses [Ezra 4:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.18/#tree) נִשְׁתְּוָנָ֕א דִּ֥י שְׁלַחְתּ֖וּן עֲלֶ֑ינָא מְפָרַ֥שׁ קֱרִ֖י קָדָמָֽי׃ *Word for word:* the letter which you.sent to us \[was\].made.distinct it.was.read.aloud before me *JPS 1917:* the letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me. [Daniel 2:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.36/#tree) דְּנָ֣ה חֶלְמָ֔א וּפִשְׁרֵ֖הּ נֵאמַ֥ר קֳדָם־מַלְכָּֽא׃ *Word for word:* this \[was\].the dream and interpretation its we.will.tell before the king *JPS 1917:* This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. ## In Targum Onkelos Number 15 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 367 times there, in the forms הוּא (312); וְהוּא (46); דְּהוּא (4); דְהוּא (4); וָהוּא (1). [Leviticus 21:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.13/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew וְהוּא אִתְּתָא בִבְתֻלְתָּהָא יִסָב וְה֕וּא אִשָּׁ֥ה בִבְתוּלֶ֖יהָ יִקָּֽח׃ *Word for word:* and he a.woman in virginiti(es) her he.will.take *JPS 1917:* And he shall take a wife in her virginity. [Genesis 36:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.1/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew וְאִלֵּין תּוּלְדַת עֵשָׂו הוּא אֱדוֹם וְאֵ֛לֶּה תֹּלְד֥וֹת עֵשָׂ֖ו ה֥וּא אֱדֽוֹם׃ *Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.accounts of.Esau that \[is\].Edom *JPS 1917:* Now these are the generations of Esau — the same is Edom. ## On Mova - [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d4_5d5_5bc_5d0.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5d5_5bc_5d0/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).