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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)
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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 17 times in 16 verses in 'Gen' in the WLC Hebrew.

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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 Box Gen 37:7

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 Box Gen 47:3

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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