1. we (first person plural pronoun) — The first person common plural independent pronoun אֲנַחְנוּ ('we'), one of the most frequent pronouns in biblical Hebrew with 121 occurrences. The two clusters differ solely in the presence of the conjunctive waw prefix: S83312 (89x) is the bare pronoun 'we' and S83313 (32x) adds וְ yielding 'and we / but we'. Cross-lingual evidence is unanimous in treating these as the same pronoun: eng 'we/and we', spa 'nosotros/y nosotros', hin 'हम/और हम', arb 'نَحْنُ/وَنَحْنُ', kor '우리는/그리고 우리는', swa 'sisi/na sisi'. The conjunction is a grammatical connector, not a semantic distinction. 121×
AR["نَحْنُ"]·ben["আমরা"]·DE["sind-wir","wir"]·EN["we","we-are"]·FR["nous","nous-sont"]·heb["אנחנו"]·HI["हम","हैं-हम"]·ID["kami","kita"]·IT["noi","noi-sono"]·jav["kawula","kawula-sedaya","kita","kula-sedaya"]·KO["우리-는","우리가","우리는","우리도","우리이다"]·PT["nós"]·RU["мы"]·ES["Nosotros","nosotros"]·SW["mtumishi-wako","na-sisi","na-wewe","sisi","tutako","wenu","wenyewe"]·TR["biz"]·urd["ہم","ہیں-ہم"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
אֲנַ֫חְנוּ, אֲנָ֑חְנוּ 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.