אֲנוּ
ʼănûw · H580 · Hebrew · 0 occurrences
Meanings
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we
Referent to the speaker or writer in a discourse, including those associated to him or her
This lexeme does not occur in the Old Testament text as tagged in standard critical editions, which instead attest the closely related forms נַחְנוּ (nachnûw, H5168) and אֲנַחְנוּ (ʼănachnûw, H587) for this sense.
In the other Testament 1 word
- אֲנַחְנָא ʼănachnâʼ · H586 · we
- Aramaic cognate form of the Hebrew first-person plural pronoun, directly equivalent in meaning and function across the sister languages.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Object Referents003001
- This lexeme has no tagged occurrence in the running text of the tagged critical edition; the first-person plural pronoun sense is instead attested at אֲנַחְנוּ (ʼănachnûw, H587) and נַחְנוּ (nachnûw, H5168), which is where this bundle-shared “Object Referents” domain is independently attested.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H580. anu אֲנוּ Jer 42:6 Kt: see after אֲנִי. אֲנוּ pronoun 1 plural common we (common in…
אֲנוּ Jer 42:6 Kt: see after אֲנִי.
אֲנוּ pronoun 1 plural common we (common in Post-Biblical Hebrew; compare also Amharic §ñ¹) may be regarded as the plural of אֲנִי (WSG 99), only Jer 42:6 Kt, for which Qr substitutes the normal אֲנַחְנוּ.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0