אֲנַחְנוּʼănachnûw

אֲנַחְנוּ: we

Pronunciation: an-akh'-noo · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H587

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 120 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 13:8 Finally Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not allow this conflict to come between us or our herdsmen. After all, we are close relatives!
  • Genesis 19:13 For we are about to destroy this city completely. The outcry against this place is so great it has reached the Lord, and he has sent us to destroy it.”
  • Genesis 29:4 Jacob went over to the shepherds and asked, “Where are you from, my friends?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
  • Genesis 37:7 “We were out in the field, tying up bundles of grain. Suddenly my bundle stood up, and your bundles all gathered around and bowed low before mine!”
  • Genesis 42:11 We are all brothers—members of the same family. We are honest men, sir! We are not spies!”
  • Genesis 42:13 “Sir,” they said, “there are actually twelve of us. We, your servants, are all brothers, sons of a man living in the land of Canaan. Our youngest brother is back there with our father right now, and one of our brothers is no longer with us.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).