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Lexicon :: Strong's H587 - 'ănaḥnû

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אֲנַחְנוּ
Transliteration
'ănaḥnû
Pronunciation
an-akh'-noo
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Part of Speech
personal pronoun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently from אָנֹכִי (H595)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 128

Strong’s Definitions

אֲנַחְנוּ ʼănachnûw, an-akh'-noo; apparently from H595; we:—ourselves, us, we.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's H587 in the following manner: we, ourselves, us.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's H587 in the following manner: we, ourselves, us.

  1. we (first pers. pl. - usually used for emphasis)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲנַחְנוּ ʼănachnûw, an-akh'-noo; apparently from H595; we:—ourselves, us, we.
STRONGS H587: Abbreviations
אֲנַ֫חְנוּ אֲנָ֑חְנוּ pronoun 1st person plural common we (the plural corresponding to אָנֹכִי, as אֲנוּ; to אֲנִי; see WSG p. 100; Phoenician אנחן CISi. 3, 16.17, Aramaic אֲנַחְנָא, Targum also נַחְנָא, Syriac NfnofnAf  , Nfno, نَعْنُ, ንሕነ፡) Genesis 13:8; Genesis 29:4; Genesis 37:7; Genesis 42:11, 13; Numbers 9:7; Deuteronomy 1:28, 41; Joel 2:17, 18, etc. Like אֲנִי, following a participle as its subject Genesis 19:13; Numbers 10:29; Judges 19:18; 2 Kings 18:26; appended to a verb for emphasis Judges 9:28; 2 Kings 10:4; Isaiah 20:6.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H586.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

13:8; 19:13; 29:4; 37:7; 42:11; 42:13

Numbers

9:7; 10:29

Deuteronomy

1:28; 1:41

Judges

9:28; 19:18

2 Kings

10:4; 18:26

Isaiah

20:6

Joel

2:17; 2:18

H587

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H587 matches the Hebrew אֲנַחְנוּ ('ănaḥnû),
which occurs 121 times in 115 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 13:8–2Ki 6:1)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:13 - For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:4 - Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where do you come from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:7 - Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:11 - We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - And they said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:21 - Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:31 - But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - And Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:18 - And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph’s house, and they said, “It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may assault us and fall upon us to make us servants and seize our donkeys.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:9 - Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be my lord’s servants.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:16 - And Judah said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:3 - Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:26 - Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the LORD our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - And those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the LORD’s offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:29 - And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the LORD has promised good to Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:4 - Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:16 - And when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - but we will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:41 - “Then you answered me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:3 - Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:25 - Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:8 - “You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:17 - The men said to her, “We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours that you have made us swear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:18 - Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - Then if anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless. But if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:8 - They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” And Joshua said to them, “Who are you? And where do you come from?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:11 - So our elders and all the inhabitants of our country said to us, ‘Take provisions in your hand for the journey and go to meet them and say to them, “We are your servants. Come now, make a covenant with us.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:19 - But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:22 - Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you dwell among us?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:18 - And the LORD drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD, for he is our God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:28 - And Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:5 - And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:5 - And they said to him, “Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:18 - And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to the house of the LORD,[fn] but no one has taken me into his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:7 - What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:18 - Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:20 - that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:8 - Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:42 - Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘The LORD shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:3 - But David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:14 - We had made a raid against the Negeb of the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:1 - Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:18 - Then on the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. And we were alone. There was no one else with us in the house; only we two were in the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:3 - And the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:1 - Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.

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