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title: אֲנַחְנוּ — we · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲנַחְנוּ (587), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 120 times: we. BDB 1906: pron. pl. comm. we. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲנַחְנוּ

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«אֲנַחְנוּ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **we** — 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:** 120 times · **Key:** 587 · **BDB:** אֲנַ֫חְנוּ

### Glosses

we (117); \[are\].we (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

we [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/587/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pron. pl. comm. we [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/587/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** pron. 1 pl. comm. we (the pl. corresp. to אָנֹכִי, as אֲנוּ to אֲנִי; v. WSG p. 100; Ph. אנחן, Aramaic אֲנַחְנָא, 𝔗 also נַחְנָא, Syriac ܐܶܢܚܢܰܢ, ܐܶܢܰܚܢܰܢ, ܚܢܰܢ, Arabic نَحْنُ, Ethiopic ንሕነ ) Gn 13:8; 29:4; 37:7; 42:11, 13; Nu 9:7; Dt 1:28, 41; Jo 2:17, 18, etc. Like אֲנִי, following a ptcp. as its subj. Gn 19:13; Nu 10:29; Ju 19:18 2 K 18:26; appended to a vb. for emph. Ju 9:28 2 K 10:4; Is 20:6.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲנַחְנוּ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/587/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 8:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.20/)

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עָבַ֥ר קָצִ֖יר כָּ֣לָה קָ֑יִץ וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ ל֥וֹא נוֹשָֽׁעְנוּ׃

*Word for word:* it.has.passed harvest it.has.come.to.an.end summer and we not we.have.been.saved

*JPS 1917:* 'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.'

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[Genesis 42:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.31/)

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וַנֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלָ֖יו כֵּנִ֣ים אֲנָ֑חְנוּ לֹ֥א הָיִ֖ינוּ מְרַגְּלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and we.said to him \[are\].honest we not we.are spies

*JPS 1917:* And we said unto him: We are upright men; we are no spies.

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