Bible word study

Huw (Strong’s H1931): Meaning in the Bible

Huw (הוּא) is the Hebrew word numbered H1931 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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. In the King James Bible it is translated he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same.

• Original wordהוּא
• Transliterationhûwʼ
• Pronunciationhoo
• Part of speech(p)
• Strong’s numberH1931
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; he a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular;

How the King James Bible translates it

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Huw in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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