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Judges 19:22
“Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.” (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
- הֵמָּה֮ — personal pronoun, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 566 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:7Genesis 6:4Genesis 6:4Genesis 7:14Genesis 14:13
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.