# H1931 הוּא

הוּא (hûwʼ), Strong’s H1931: he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as… KJV: he, as for her…

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*hûwʼ* — he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as…

KJV: he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these…

Occurs 1877 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- הוּא m. הִיא f., pron. of the 3rd ps. sing. he, she, used also (in both genders) for the neuter it
- 1 an emph. he (she, it, they), sometimes equivalent to himself (herself, itself, themselves), or (esp. with the art.) that (those)
- 2 It resumes the subj. with emph.
- 3 Where, however, the pron. follows the pred., its position gives it the minimum of emphasis, and it expresses (or resumes) the subject as unobtrusively as possible
- 4 It anticipates (as it seems) the subject
- 5 As an emph. predicate, of God
- 6 In a neuter sense, that, it (of an action, occurrence, matte, etc.)
- 7 With the art.: so regularly when joined to a subst. defined itself by the art.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=11) — The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- [Genesis 2:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=12) — and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.
- [Genesis 2:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=13) — The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
- [Genesis 2:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=14) — The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the…
- [Genesis 2:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=19) — Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man…
- [Genesis 3:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=6) — When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be…
- [Genesis 3:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=12) — The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
- [Genesis 3:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=15) — I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head…
- [Genesis 3:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=16) — To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire…
- [Genesis 3:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=20) — The man called his wife Havah because she would be the mother of all the living.