אַנְתּוּן
an.tun (H0859D)
you
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# H0859D (אַנְתּוּן): A Common Hebrew Pronoun The Hebrew word אַנְתּוּ (antun) functions as a second-person plural pronoun meaning "you." With 283 occurrences throughout the Hebrew Bible, it represents one of the most frequently used pronouns in the text. This high frequency reflects its essential role in biblical discourse whenever speakers address multiple people directly. As a pronoun, אַנְתּוּ has no inherent semantic content beyond its grammatical function—it simply marks the addressees of a statement or command. Its significance lies in its structural importance: biblical narratives, legal texts, prophetic speeches, and wisdom literature all rely on such pronouns to establish clear relationships between speakers and audiences. The substantial number of occurrences indicates that plural address was a common communicative pattern in biblical Hebrew, whether in dialogue between characters, divine pronouncements to communities, or legal stipulations directed at groups. The prevalence of this pronoun across different biblical genres underscores how fundamental direct address to multiple parties was in ancient Hebrew communication. Without such pronouns, the clarity of who was being spoken to in passages ranging from laws to prophetic oracles would be significantly compromised. The word's high occurrence count thus reflects both the practical necessity of marking plural audience and the diverse communicative contexts throughout the Hebrew scriptures.
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Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”
Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”
If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’ ”
He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”
He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’ ”
But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’
Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!
Today you go out in the month Abib.
Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”
‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.
and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”
Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’ ”
You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you
But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
“ ‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”
surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?
It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;
But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”
They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they nor you.
Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh’s wave offering to Aaron the priest.
You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.
Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else Yahweh will speak to me.”
“Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, “When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land in which you dwell.
“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
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