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title: זוּ — this · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זוּ (2098), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: this. BDB 1906: pron. demonstr. relative. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זוּ

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«זוּ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **this** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 15 times · **Key:** 2098 · **BDB:** זוּ

### Glosses

which (9); this (2); who (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

this [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2098/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pron. demonstr. relative [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2098/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** pron. (poet.), indeclinable. a demonstr. Hb 1:11 זוּ כֹחוֹ this his strength, ψ 12:8 מִן־הַדּוֹר זוּ (unusual, for הַזֶּה), 62:12 שְׁתַּיִם־זוּ שָׁמַעְתִּי these two things \&c. (but better (WickesPoet. Acc. 64) שְׁ֖תֵּיִם ז֣וּ two things (are there) which \&c.: v. 2). a relative, Ex 15:13 עַם־זוּ גָאָ֑לְתָּ the people which thou hast redeemed, v 16 Is 42:24 זוּ חָטָאנוּ לוֹ against whom we sinned, 43:21 ψ 9:16 (fem.) רֶשֶׁת־ז֥וּ טָ֜מָ֗נוּ so 31:5, 10:2; 17:9 (with a plural antecedent) מִפְּנֵי רְשָׁעִים זוּ שַׁדּוּנִי, 32:8; 68:29 (thou) who hast wrought for us! 142:4; 143:8. To most of these passages the remark made under זה 5 respecting the intention of the punctuators also applies: comp. De on ψ 9:16. (Cf. ذُو, used as an indeclin. relat. pron. = اَلَّذِى in the Ṭayyite dialect: thus أتى عليهم ذو أتى there has come upon them that which has come: ذحن ذو فعلنا كذا it is we who have done this. See SchuHariri Cons. ii. 75, Thes406, WAG i. 347, e, Lanep. 986, FlKl.Schr. i. p. 359.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 15 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זוּ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2098/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 43:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.21/)

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עַם־זוּ֙ יָצַ֣רְתִּי לִ֔י תְּהִלָּתִ֖י יְסַפֵּֽרוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* a.people which I.formed for myself praise my they.will.recount

*JPS 1917:* The people which I formed for Myself, that they might tell of My praise.

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[Psalms 10:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.10.2/)

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בְּגַאֲוַ֣ת רָ֭שָׁע יִדְלַ֣ק עָנִ֑י יִתָּפְשׂ֓וּ ׀ בִּמְזִמּ֖וֹת ז֣וּ חָשָֽׁבוּ׃

*Word for word:* in.\[the\] pride of.\[the\].wicked he.hotly.pursues \[the\].afflicted they.are.caught by schemes which they.have.planned

*JPS 1917:* Through the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued, they are taken in the devices that they have imagined.

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