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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 2 / 3 (2Ki 7:3–Jer 8:8)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:3 - Now there were four men who were lepers[fn] at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:9 - Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come; let us go and tell the king’s household.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - And the king rose in the night and said to his servants, “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:4 - But they were exceedingly afraid and said, “Behold, the two kings could not stand before him. How then can we stand?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:5 - So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and we will do all that you tell us. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:13 - Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the relatives of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26 - Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:1 - Then all Israel gathered together to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:13 - And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:16 - And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:10 - But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the LORD who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - They offer to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out the showbread on the table of pure gold, and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may burn every evening. For we keep the charge of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:12 - O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:2 - they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:3 - But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:7 - From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9 - For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection[fn] in Judea and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:4 - Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:20 - Then I replied to them, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim[fn] in Jerusalem.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:1 - [fn] Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10 - In Judah it was said,[fn] “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19 - And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:21 - So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:23 - So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon at his right hand.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:2 - For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:3 - There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:5 - Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:33 - Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:36 - Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 - And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:38 - [fn] “Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of[fn] our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:9 - For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
for our days on earth are a shadow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:7 - Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:8 - They collapse and fall,
but we rise and stand upright.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:13 - But we your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will give thanks to you forever;
from generation to generation we will recount your praise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 95:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:7 - For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture,
and the sheep of his hand.
Today, if you hear his voice,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 100:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 100:3 - Know that the LORD, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;[fn]
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 103:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:14 - For he knows our frame;[fn]
he remembers that we are dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 115:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:18 - But we will bless the LORD
from this time forth and forevermore.
Praise the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 124:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:7 - We have escaped like a bird
from the snare of the fowlers;
the snare is broken,
and we have escaped!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 - And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:11 - Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:4 - Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - But now, O LORD, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:25 - Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:8 - “How can you say, ‘We are wise,
and the law of the LORD is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
has made it into a lie.

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