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Hebrew perp-cp · H587

אֲנַחְנוּ

anachnuan-akh'-noo

we

120 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼănachnûw

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H587is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 23 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 32
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H587

we

The King James renders it: ourselves, us, we.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

anachnu is rendered "we". It stands 120 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-three books.

  • Seventeen of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 13:8So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-two different ways.

The first use

So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.

Genesis 13:8אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • we89
  • and we31

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

אֲנַחְנָאanachnaweUses4
אֲנַףanaphfaceUses2
אֲנַסanasto constrainUses1

All 120, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

32 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • אֲנַ֣חְנוּ11
  • אֲנַ֔חְנוּ9
  • אֲנַ֥חְנוּ9
  • אֲנַ֖חְנוּ9
  • וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּ8
  • אֲנַ֤חְנוּ7
  • אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃7
  • אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙6
  • אֲנָ֑חְנוּ5
  • וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּ5
  • אֲנַ֜חְנוּ4
  • אֲנַ֛חְנוּ4

and 20 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine plural89HPp1bp
  • conjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine plural31HC/Pp1bp

Genesis

seventeen uses
  • So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.

    Genesis 13:8

    • אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”

    Genesis 19:13

    • אֲנַ֔חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • “My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.

    Genesis 29:4

    • אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

    Genesis 37:7

    • אֲנַ֜חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • We are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies.”

    Genesis 42:11

    • אֲנַ֔חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”

    Genesis 42:13

    • אֲנַ֛חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

    Genesis 42:21

    • אֲנַחְנוּ֮ʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • But we told him, ‘We are honest men, not spies.

    Genesis 42:31

    • אֲנָ֑חְנוּʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’

    Genesis 42:32

    • אֲנַ֛חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.

    Genesis 43:8

    • אֲנַ֥חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • But the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Joseph’s house. “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

    Genesis 43:18

    • אֲנַ֖חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”

    Genesis 44:9

    • אֲנַ֕חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • “What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed the iniquity of your servants. We are now my lord’s slaves—both we and the one who was found with the cup.”

    Genesis 44:16

    • אֲנַ֕חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”

    Genesis 46:34

    • אֲנַ֖חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • “What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”

    Genesis 47:3

    • אֲנַ֖חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

    Genesis 47:19

    • אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
    • אֲנַ֤חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

Exodus

one use
  • Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind, for we will need some of them to worship the LORD our God, and we will not know how we are to worship the LORD until we arrive.”

    Exodus 10:26

    • וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we

Numbers

five uses
  • and said to Moses, “We are unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?”

    Numbers 9:7

    • אֲנַ֥חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

    Numbers 10:29

    • אֲנַ֗חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

    Numbers 20:4

    • אֲנַ֖חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • and when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

    Numbers 20:16

    • אֲנַ֣חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.

    Numbers 32:17

    • וַאֲנַ֜חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we

Deuteronomy

five uses
  • Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”

    Deuteronomy 1:28

    • אֲנַ֣חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • “We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.

    Deuteronomy 1:41

    • אֲנַ֤חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

    Deuteronomy 5:3

    • אֲנַ֨חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.

    Deuteronomy 5:25

    • אֲנַ֗חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.

    Deuteronomy 12:8

    • אֲנַ֧חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

Joshua

eight uses
  • The men said to her, “We will not be bound by this oath you made us swear

    Joshua 2:17

    • אֲנַ֔חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.

    Joshua 2:18

    • אֲנַ֥חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with you in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

    Joshua 2:19

    • וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • “We are your servants,” they said to Joshua. Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where have you come from?”

    Joshua 9:8

    • אֲנָ֑חְנוּʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • So the elders and inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey; go to meet them and say to them: We are your servants. Please make a treaty with us.’

    Joshua 9:11

    • אֲנַ֔חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • All the leaders answered, “We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them.

    Joshua 9:19

    • אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by telling us you live far away from us, when in fact you live among us?

    Joshua 9:22

    • אֲנַ֤חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”

    Joshua 24:18

    • אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

Judges

six uses
  • Then Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? You are to serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem. Why should we serve Abimelech?

    Judges 9:28

    • אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

    Judges 16:5

    • וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙vaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • Then they said to him, “Please inquire of God to determine whether we will have a successful journey.”

    Judges 18:5

    • אֲנַ֖חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • The Levite replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me into his home,

    Judges 19:18

    • אֲנַ֜חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • What should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”

    Judges 21:7

    • וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙vaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • But we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”

    Judges 21:18

    • וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we

1 Samuel

five uses
  • Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”

    1 Samuel 8:20

    • אֲנַ֖חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • “Very well,” said Jonathan, “we will cross over toward these men and show ourselves to them.

    1 Samuel 14:8

    • אֲנַ֥חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.

    1 Samuel 20:42

    • אֲנַ֗חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • But David’s men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

    1 Samuel 23:3

    • אֲנַ֥חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”

    1 Samuel 30:14

    • אֲנַ֡חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

2 Samuel

one use
  • Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

    2 Samuel 5:1

    • אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

1 Kings

three uses
  • On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.

    1 Kings 3:18

    • וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
    • אֲנַ֖חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • who said to his servants, “Do you not know that Ramoth-gilead is ours, but we have failed to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?”

    1 Kings 22:3

    • וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we

2 Kings

nine uses
  • Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.

    2 Kings 6:1

    • אֲנַ֜חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?

    2 Kings 7:3

    • אֲנַ֛חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”

    2 Kings 7:9

    • אֲנַ֣חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
    • וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”

    2 Kings 7:12

    • אֲנַ֗חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”

    2 Kings 10:4

    • אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • So the palace administrator, the overseer of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you say. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your sight.”

    2 Kings 10:5

    • אֲנַ֔חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Jehu met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” “We are relatives of Ahaziah,” they answered, “and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and of the queen mother.”

    2 Kings 10:13

    • אֲנַ֔חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

    2 Kings 18:26

    • אֲנָ֑חְנוּʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

1 Chronicles

three uses
  • Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

    1 Chronicles 11:1

    • אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Now therefore, our God, we give You thanks, and we praise Your glorious name.

    1 Chronicles 29:13

    • אֲנַ֖חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

    1 Chronicles 29:15

    • אֲנַ֧חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

2 Chronicles

four uses
  • We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”

    2 Chronicles 2:16

    • וַ֠אֲנַחְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • But as for us, the LORD is our God. We have not forsaken Him; the priests who minister to the LORD are sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties.

    2 Chronicles 13:10

    • וַאֲנַ֛חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.

    2 Chronicles 13:11

    • אֲנַ֔חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast army that comes against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”

    2 Chronicles 20:12

    • וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we

Ezra

seven uses
  • they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”

    Ezra 4:2

    • אֲנַ֣חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of the families of Israel replied, “You have no part with us in building a house for our God, since we alone must build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as Cyrus king of Persia has commanded us.”

    Ezra 4:3

    • אֲנַ֨חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and put to the sword and captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.

    Ezra 9:7

    • אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
    • אֲנַחְנוּ֩ʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.

    Ezra 9:9

    • אֲנַ֔חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.

    Ezra 10:2

    • אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Get up, for this matter is your responsibility, and we will support you. Be strong and take action!”

    Ezra 10:4

    • וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we

Nehemiah

sixteen uses
  • Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

    Nehemiah 2:17

    • אֲנַ֣חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • So I answered them and said, “The God of heaven is the One who will grant us success. We, His servants, will start rebuilding, but you have no portion, right, or claim in Jerusalem.”

    Nehemiah 2:20

    • וַאֲנַ֥חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews

    Nehemiah 4:1

    • אֲנַ֤חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”

    Nehemiah 4:10

    • וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙vaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • Then I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people: “The work is great and extensive, and we are spread out far from one another along the wall.

    Nehemiah 4:19

    • וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • So we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.

    Nehemiah 4:21

    • וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the guards with me changed out of our clothes; each carried his weapon, even to go for water.

    Nehemiah 4:23

    • אֲנַ֥חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

    Nehemiah 5:2

    • אֲנַ֣חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

    Nehemiah 5:3

    • אֲנַ֣חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

    Nehemiah 5:5

    • אֲנַ֣חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.

    Nehemiah 5:8

    • אֲנַ֣חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.

    Nehemiah 9:33

    • וַאֲנַ֥חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!

    Nehemiah 9:36

    • אֲנַ֥חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
    • אֲנַ֥חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.

    Nehemiah 9:37

    • אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ פʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”

    Nehemiah 9:38

    • אֲנַ֛חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

Job

one use
  • For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

    Job 8:9

    • אֲ֭נַחְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

Psalms

eight uses
  • Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

    Psalms 20:7

    • וַאֲנַ֓חְנוּ׀vaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

    Psalms 20:8

    • וַאֲנַ֥חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.

    Psalms 79:13

    • וַאֲנַ֤חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,

    Psalms 95:7

    • וַאֲנַ֤חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

    Psalms 100:3

    • אֲנַ֑חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

    Psalms 103:14

    • אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • But it is we who will bless the LORD, both now and forevermore. Hallelujah!

    Psalms 115:18

    • וַאֲנַ֤חְנוּ׀vaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.

    Psalms 124:7

    • וַאֲנַ֥חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we

Isaiah

four uses
  • And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”

    Isaiah 20:6

    • אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ סʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

    Isaiah 36:11

    • אֲנָ֑חְנוּʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.

    Isaiah 53:4

    • וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

    Isaiah 64:8

    • אֲנַ֤חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

Jeremiah

ten uses
  • Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

    Jeremiah 3:25

    • אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

    Jeremiah 8:8

    • אֲנַ֔חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

    Jeremiah 8:14

    • אֲנַ֣חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • “The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

    Jeremiah 8:20

    • וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”

    Jeremiah 26:19

    • וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.

    Jeremiah 35:8

    • אֲנַ֣חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us, for we will obey the voice of the LORD our God!”

    Jeremiah 42:6

    • אֲנַ֜חְנוּʾanupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.

    Jeremiah 44:17

    • אֲנַ֤חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • “Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”

    Jeremiah 44:19

    • אֲנַ֤חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?

    Jeremiah 48:14

    • אֲנָ֑חְנוּʾanachenupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

Lamentations

one use
  • Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

    Lamentations 5:7

    • וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we

Ezekiel

three uses
  • They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’

    Ezekiel 11:3

    • וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we
  • Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’

    Ezekiel 33:10

    • אֲנַ֥חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we
  • “Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’

    Ezekiel 33:24

    • וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we

Daniel

one use
  • Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

    Daniel 9:18

    • אֲנַ֨חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

Micah

one use
  • Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.

    Micah 4:5

    • וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּvaanachnuconjunction (“and”) + pronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and we

Malachi

one use
  • So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

    Malachi 3:15

    • אֲנַ֖חְנוּʾanachnupronoun · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: we

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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