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Judges 21:18
“Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
אֲנַחְנוּʼănachnûw · an-akh'-noo
H587 · Hebrew
H587 · Hebrew
- Definition
- we
- Derivation
- apparently from H595 (אָנֹכִי);
- KJV renderings
- ourselves, us, we.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- אֲנַ֗חְנוּ — personal pronoun, 1st person, common, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 121 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 13:8Genesis 19:13Genesis 29:4Genesis 37:7Genesis 42:11
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 אֲנַחְנוּ 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.