we (first pers. pl. -usually used for emphasis)
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H587 — אֲנַ֫חְנוּ
a.nach.nu · we · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 13:8 · אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃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 kinsmen.Genesis 19:13 · אֲנַ֔חְנוּbecause 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 29:4 · אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.Genesis 37:7 · אֲנַ֜חְנוּWe 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 42:11 · אֲנַ֔חְנוּWe are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies.”Genesis 42:13 · אֲנַ֛חְנוּBut 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 42:21 · אֲנַחְנוּ֮Then 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 42:31 · אֲנָ֑חְנוּBut we told him, ‘We are honest men, not spies.Genesis 42:32 · אֲנַ֛חְנוּWe 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 43:8 · אֲנַ֥חְנוּAnd 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 43:18 · אֲנַ֖חְנוּBut 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 44:9 · אֲנַ֕חְנוּIf any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”Genesis 44:16 · אֲנַ֕חְנוּ“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 46:34 · אֲנַ֖חְנוּyou 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 47:3 · אֲנַ֖חְנוּ“What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”Genesis 47:19 · אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ · אֲנַ֤חְנוּWhy 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.”Exodus 10:26 · וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּEven 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.”Numbers 9:7 · אֲנַ֥חְנוּand 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 10:29 · אֲנַ֗חְנוּThen 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 20:4 · אֲנַ֖חְנוּWhy have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?Numbers 20:16 · אֲנַ֣חְנוּand 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 32:17 · וַאֲנַ֜חְנוּBut 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.Deuteronomy 1:28 · אֲנַ֣חְנוּWhere 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 1:41 · אֲנַ֤חְנוּ“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 5:3 · אֲנַ֨חְנוּHe did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.Deuteronomy 5:25 · אֲנַ֗חְנוּBut 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 12:8 · אֲנַ֧חְנוּYou are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.Joshua 2:17 · אֲנַ֔חְנוּThe men said to her, “We will not be bound by this oath you made us swearJoshua 2:18 · אֲנַ֥חְנוּunless, 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 2:19 · וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּIf 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 9:8 · אֲנָ֑חְנוּ“We are your servants,” they said to Joshua. Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where have you come from?”Joshua 9:11 · אֲנַ֔חְנוּSo 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 9:19 · אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙All the leaders answered, “We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them.Joshua 9:22 · אֲנַ֤חְנוּThen 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 24:18 · אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙And 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!”Judges 9:28 · אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃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 16:5 · וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙The 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 18:5 · אֲנַ֖חְנוּThen they said to him, “Please inquire of God to determine whether we will have a successful journey.”Judges 19:18 · אֲנַ֜חְנוּThe 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 21:7 · וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙What should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”Judges 21:18 · וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּBut we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”1 Samuel 8:20 · אֲנַ֖חְנוּThen 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 14:8 · אֲנַ֥חְנוּ“Very well,” said Jonathan, “we will cross over toward these men and show ourselves to them.1 Samuel 20:42 · אֲנַ֗חְנוּAnd 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 23:3 · אֲנַ֥חְנוּBut 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 30:14 · אֲנַ֡חְנוּWe raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”2 Samuel 5:1 · אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.1 Kings 3:18 · וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּ · אֲנַ֖חְנוּOn 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 22:3 · וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּwho 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?”2 Kings 6:1 · אֲנַ֜חְנוּNow 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 7:3 · אֲנַ֛חְנוּNow 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 7:9 · אֲנַ֣חְנוּ · וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּFinally, 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 7:12 · אֲנַ֗חְנוּSo 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 10:4 · אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”2 Kings 10:5 · אֲנַ֔חְנוּSo 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 10:13 · אֲנַ֔חְנוּJehu 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 18:26 · אֲנָ֑חְנוּThen 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.”1 Chronicles 11:1 · אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.1 Chronicles 29:13 · אֲנַ֖חְנוּNow therefore, our God, we give You thanks, and we praise Your glorious name.1 Chronicles 29:15 · אֲנַ֧חְנוּFor we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.2 Chronicles 2:16 · וַ֠אֲנַחְנוּWe 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 13:10 · וַאֲנַ֛חְנוּBut 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 13:11 · אֲנַ֔חְנוּEvery 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 20:12 · וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּOur 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.”Ezra 4:2 · אֲנַ֣חְנוּthey 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 4:3 · אֲנַ֨חְנוּBut 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 9:7 · אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ · אֲנַחְנוּ֩From 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 subjected to the sword and to captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.Ezra 9:9 · אֲנַ֔חְנוּThough 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 10:2 · אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙Then 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 10:4 · וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּGet up, for this matter is your responsibility, and we will support you. Be strong and take action!”Nehemiah 2:17 · אֲנַ֣חְנוּThen 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 2:20 · וַאֲנַ֥חְנוּSo 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 4:1 · אֲנַ֤חְנוּNow when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the JewsNehemiah 4:10 · וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙Meanwhile, 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 4:19 · וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּThen 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 4:21 · וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּSo we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.Nehemiah 4:23 · אֲנַ֥חְנוּSo 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 5:2 · אֲנַ֣חְנוּSome were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”Nehemiah 5:3 · אֲנַ֣חְנוּOthers were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”Nehemiah 5:5 · אֲנַ֣חְנוּWe 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 5:8 · אֲנַ֣חְנוּand 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 9:33 · וַאֲנַ֥חְנוּYou are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.Nehemiah 9:36 · אֲנַ֥חְנוּ · אֲנַ֥חְנוּSo 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 9:37 · אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ פIts 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 9:38 · אֲנַ֛חְנוּIn 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.”Job 8:9 · אֲ֭נַחְנוּFor we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.Psalm 20:7 · וַאֲנַ֓חְנוּ׀Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.Psalm 20:8 · וַאֲנַ֥חְנוּThey collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.Psalm 79:13 · וַאֲנַ֤חְנוּThen we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.Psalm 95:7 · וַאֲנַ֤חְנוּFor He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,Psalm 100:3 · אֲנַ֑חְנוּKnow 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.Psalm 103:14 · אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.Psalm 115:18 · וַאֲנַ֤חְנוּ׀But it is we who will bless the LORD, both now and forevermore. Hallelujah!Psalm 124:7 · וַאֲנַ֥חְנוּWe have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.Isaiah 20:6 · אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ סAnd 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 36:11 · אֲנָ֑חְנוּThen 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 53:4 · וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּSurely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.Isaiah 64:8 · אֲנַ֤חְנוּBut now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.Jeremiah 3:25 · אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙Let 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 8:8 · אֲנַ֔חְנוּHow 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 8:14 · אֲנַ֣חְנוּWhy 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 8:20 · וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”Jeremiah 26:19 · וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּDid 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 35:8 · אֲנַ֣חְנוּAnd 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 42:6 · אֲנַ֜חְנוּWhether 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 when we obey the voice of the LORD our God!”Jeremiah 44:17 · אֲנַ֤חְנוּInstead, 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 44:19 · אֲנַ֤חְנוּ“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 48:14 · אֲנָ֑חְנוּHow can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?Lamentations 5:7 · וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּOur fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.Daniel 9:18 · אֲנַ֨חְנוּIncline 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.Micah 4:5 · וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּThough all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.Malachi 3:15 · אֲנַ֖חְנוּSo now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”