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Genesis 7:14
“They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1992 · Hebrew
- Definition
- they (only used when emphatic)
- Derivation
- or (prolonged) הֵמָּה; masculine plural from H1981 (הֲלַךְ);
- KJV renderings
- it, like, [idiom] (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, [idiom] so, [idiom] such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.
- Grammar
- הֵ֜מָּה — personal pronoun, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 566 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:7Genesis 6:4Genesis 6:4Genesis 14:13Genesis 14:24
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read הֵם here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.