נִי ni

Hebrew word for “me” · Strong’s H9030 · used 908 times in 818 verses

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Meaning

Personal object pronoun - suffix for propositions and verbs without an object: 1st person singular

How it is translated

Glosses given for ni in context, with how often each is used:

• me 817
• myself 48
• against 33
• belonged to 2
• will belong to 2
• over 2
• which belongs to 2
• will be on 1
• which to 1

Where it is used

Also in 25 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Psalms 119 (12), Genesis 27 (10), 2 Samuel 22 (10), Psalms 18 (9), Genesis 31 (8), Leviticus 26 (7), Ruth 1 (7), Isaiah 43 (7), Genesis 30 (6), Numbers 22 (6)

Forms

• לי 748
• בי 147
• ולי 8
• שׁלי 2
• לֿי 1
• ומני 1
• בשׁלי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with ni more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מָה mah “what?” 78
• אֲנִי ani “I” 75
• אִם im “if” 75
• אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 73
• זֶה zeh “this” 74
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 69
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 74
• נָא na “please” 51
• עַתָּה attah “now” 52
• דָבַר davar “to speak” 62
• נָגַד nagad “to tell” 45
• אָב av “father” 61

Key verses

The verses using ni that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 15:2 — The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
• Exodus 19:5 — Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
• 1 Samuel 2:30 — Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be…
• Isaiah 12:1 — And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
• Isaiah 12:2 — Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
• Isaiah 43:1 — But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name;…
• Isaiah 45:24 — Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
• Isaiah 49:6 — And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give…
• Jeremiah 31:33 — But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write…
• Hosea 4:6 — My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou…
• Micah 5:2 — But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;…
• Micah 7:8 — Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.