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# אַתָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H859

**thou** — used 744 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

thou [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/859/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַתָּ֫ה: pron. thou [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/859/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (so regularly; but 26–7 times, with different disj. accents, אַ֑תָּה: v. FrMM 228; Sta§ 178 a (read 8 for 18) pron. 2 s. m. thou (for anta, v. supr.; cf. נָתַתָּ for נָתַנְתָּ) Gn 3:11, 19 + often. Written אַתָּ †1 S 24:18 ψ 6:4; Jb 1:10; Ec 7:22; Ne 9:6. Appended to a vb. for emph., Ex 18:19(×2) 1 S 17:56 שְׁאַל אַתָּה inquire thou, 20:8; 22:18; Is 43:26 סַפֵּר אַתָּה. Added for the purpose of strengthening a gen. or accus. sf. 1 K 21:19; Pr 22:19 (Ges§ 135, 2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: you (683); \[are\] you (51); you? (6).

## In the verses

[Psalms 22:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.4/#tree)

וְאַתָּ֥ה קָד֑וֹשׁ י֝וֹשֵׁ֗ב תְּהִלּ֥וֹת יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and you \[are\].holy sitting the.praises of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Yet Thou art holy, O Thou that art enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

[Psalms 76:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.5/#tree)

נָ֭אוֹר אַתָּ֥ה אַדִּ֗יר מֵֽהַרְרֵי־טָֽרֶף׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].lighted.up you \[are\].majestic more than.mountains of.prey

*JPS 1917:* Glorious art Thou and excellent, coming down from the mountains of prey.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/859.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/859/): 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).