1. I (first person singular pronoun) — The first person singular independent pronoun אֲנִי/אֲנוּ ('I'), one of the two Hebrew forms for 'I' (alongside אָנֹכִי H0595). Extremely frequent (874 occurrences) across all genres—narrative, prophetic, legal, wisdom, and poetic. Used in divine self-declarations ('I am YHWH,' Exod 6:2), prophetic speech ('and I will...'), human discourse, and emphatic subject marking. The three clusters differ only in syntactic context: standalone (694x), conjunction-prefixed וַאֲנִי 'and I / but I' (178x), and relative-pronoun-prefixed שֶׁאֲנִי 'that I' (2x). All languages render uniformly: spa yo, hin मैं, arb أَنَا, kor 나는/내가, swa mimi. 874×
AR["أنا","أَنا","أَنَا"]·ben["আমাকে","আমি","আমি-"]·DE["ich","ich-bin-es"]·EN["I"]·FR["Je"]·heb["אני"]·HI["मैं","मैं-","मैन"]·ID["Aku","Akulah","aku"]·IT["io"]·jav["Kawula","Kula","kawula","kawula-","kula"]·KO["나-는","나는","나도","나와","나이다","내가"]·PT["Eu","eu"]·RU["Я","меня","я","я-"]·ES["Yo","yo","yo-"]·SW["Mimi","kumbe","mimi"]·TR["Ben","Benim","ben","ben-"]·urd["میں","میں-نے"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אֲנוּ pron. 1 pl. comm. we (common in postB. Heb.; cf. also Amh. እና ) pl. of אֲנִי (WSG 98), only Je 42:6 Kt. (אֲנַחְנוּ Qr).