1 Samuel 20:26:91 Sam.20.26.W9TAB
ה֔וּא
hu
“it”
- Transliteration
- HU
- Extended
- HOO
- IPA
- /ˈhuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
HU
- phraseyour reading level
mik-RE HU
- clause
KI A-mar mik-RE HU bil-TI ta-HOR HU ki-LO ta-HOR
- sentence
ve-LO-di-BER sha-UL me-u-MA ba-YOM ha-HU KI A-mar mik-RE HU bil-TI ta-HOR HU ki-LO ta-HOR
Exegesis
The independent pronoun hūʾ {הוּא | hūʾ} then reestablishes the subject in a verbless nominal clause, linking to the adjective ṭā-mēʾ {טָמֵא | ṭā-mēʾ} ‘unclean,’ which is first asserted and then negated by the existential ʾē-nən-nū {אֵינֶנּוּ | ʾē-nən-nū} ‘he is not,’ before repeating ṭā-mēʾ for rhetorical emphasis on perceived defilement.
In context — 1 Samuel 20:26
Nevertheless Saul did not speak anything that day , for he thought, “Something has happened to him; he is unclean ; surely he is unclean.”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 20:26:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of 1 Samuel 20:26, so the Hebrew word ה֔וּא (hu) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Sam.20.26.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.20.26.W9.S1) and character.