He ( she or it ); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self , or (especially with the article) the same ; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that ; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are · gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God ; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates ; and sometimes as a superlative
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הוּא · אֱלֹהִים is a Hebrew phrase meaning "he ( she or it ); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self , or (especially with the article) the same ; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that ; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are".
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הוּא · אֱלֹהִים is a Hebrew phrase meaning "he ( she or it ); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self , or (especially with the article) the same ; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that ; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are".
H1931, H430 is connected to 4,489 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Hebrew phrase. he ( she or it ); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self , or (especially with the article) the same ; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that ; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
הוּא אֱלֹהֶיךָ is a primitive word - no further derivation.
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