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"]
Senses
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0518a 1. conditional particle: if (827×)
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).