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# אֲנַחְנוּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H587

**we** — used 120 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

we [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/587/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲנַ֫חְנוּ: pron. pl. comm. we [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/587/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** pron. 1 pl. comm. we (the pl. corresp. to אָנֹכִי, as אֲנוּ to אֲנִי; v. WSG p. 100; Ph. אנחן, Aramaic אֲנַחְנָא, 𝔗 also נַחְנָא, Syriac ܐܶܢܚܢܰܢ, ܐܶܢܰܚܢܰܢ, ܚܢܰܢ, Arabic نَحْنُ, Ethiopic ንሕነ ) Gn 13:8; 29:4; 37:7; 42:11, 13; Nu 9:7; Dt 1:28, 41; Jo 2:17, 18, etc. Like אֲנִי, following a ptcp. as its subj. Gn 19:13; Nu 10:29; Ju 19:18 2 K 18:26; appended to a vb. for emph. Ju 9:28 2 K 10:4; Is 20:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: we (117); \[are\] we (3).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 8:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.20/#tree)

עָבַ֥ר קָצִ֖יר כָּ֣לָה קָ֑יִץ וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ ל֥וֹא נוֹשָֽׁעְנוּ׃

*Word for word:* it.has.passed harvest it.has.come.to.an.end summer and we not we.have.been.saved

*JPS 1917:* 'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.'

[Genesis 42:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.31/#tree)

וַנֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלָ֖יו כֵּנִ֣ים אֲנָ֑חְנוּ לֹ֥א הָיִ֖ינוּ מְרַגְּלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and we.said to him \[are\].honest we not we.are spies

*JPS 1917:* And we said unto him: We are upright men; we are no spies.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/587.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/587/): 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).