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# אֲנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H589

**I** — used 874 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

I [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/589/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲנִי: pron. comm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/589/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** pron. 1 s. comm. I (أَنَا, אֲנָא, ܐܶܢܳܐ:, አነ ) Gn 6:17; 9:9, 12 + oft. Following a ptcp. as its subj. (to express mostly either a true present or the fut. instans) Gn 18:17 הַמְכַסֶּה אֲנִי Am I hiding from Abraham that which, etc., Ju 15:3 1 S 3:13 Je 1:12; 38:14; 44:29 (v. Dr§ 135, 4). Appended to a verb, it expresses, in early Hebrew, a real emphasis, as Ju 8:23 לֹא אֶמְשֹׁל אֲנִי בָּכֶם I will not rule over you, 2 S 12:28 lest I take the city, 2 S 17:15 thus and thus did Ahitophel counsel, and thus and thus יָעַצְתִּי אָ֑נִי did I counsel; but in later Heb. it is sometimes pleonastic, Ec 2:11–15, 18–20 +. In response to a question, אָ֑נִי alone = I am, It is I, Gn 27:24 Ju 13:11 1 K 18:8 +. With הֲ, הַאֲנִי †Is 66:9. (Syn. אָנֹכִי, q.v.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 18 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I (823); of me (22); \[am\] I (13).

## In the verses

[Psalms 56:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.56.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.56.4/#tree)

י֥וֹם אִירָ֑א אֲ֝נִ֗י אֵלֶ֥יךָ אֶבְטָֽח׃

*Word for word:* a.day \[when\].I.will.fear I to you I.will.trust

*JPS 1917:* In the day that I am afraid, I will put my trust in Thee.

[Psalms 75:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.75.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.75.3/#tree)

כִּ֭י אֶקַּ֣ח מוֹעֵ֑ד אֲ֝נִ֗י מֵישָׁרִ֥ים אֶשְׁפֹּֽט׃

*Word for word:* (dm) I.will.take an.appointed.time I uprightness(es) I.will.judge

*JPS 1917:* 'When I take the appointed time, I Myself will judge with equity.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/589.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/589/): 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).