הֶם hem

Hebrew word for “them” · Strong’s H9038 · used 1,125 times in 1,002 verses

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Meaning

Personal object pronoun - suffix for propositions and verbs without an object: 3rd person masculine plural

How it is translated

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

• them 929
• themselves 66
• among 49
• belonged to 23
• against 11
• some 10
• over 10
• any 8
• like 7
• more than 4
• will belong to 3
• it 2

Where it is used

Also in 25 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Nehemiah 9 (17), Ezekiel 20 (15), 2 Kings 17 (9), Psalms 106 (9), Deuteronomy 2 (8), Joshua 9 (8), Ezekiel 39 (8), Daniel 1 (8), Psalms 78 (7), Exodus 32 (6)

Forms

• להם 644
• בהם 158
• בם 133
• מהם 92
• למו 55
• ולהם 8
• להון 7
• ומהם 6
• בהון 6
• כהם 5

Words used with it

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

• הֵמָּה hemmah “they(masc.)” 67
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 87
• אָב av “father” 72
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 61
• אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 62
• עַד ad “till” 63
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 56
• יָדַע yada “to know” 54
• עָבַד avad “to serve” 39
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 45
• אַחַר achar “after” 48
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 53

Key verses

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

• Genesis 48:16 — The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow…
• Exodus 20:5 — Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto…
• Nehemiah 9:26 — Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn…
• Isaiah 35:8 — And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the…
• Isaiah 61:3 — To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;…
• Isaiah 66:19 — And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and…
• Jeremiah 16:19 — O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say,…
• 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…
• Jeremiah 32:39 — And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
• Daniel 5:23 — But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy…
• Hosea 5:15 — I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
• Malachi 4:1 — For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn…

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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.