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הֵם H1992
H1992 is the Hebrew word הֵם, transliterated hêm and said haym. The King James Version most often renders it these.
What it means
they (only used when emphatic).
Where it comes from
or (prolonged) הֵמָּה; masculine plural from H1981 (הֲלַךְ).
How the King James Version translates it
Across 25 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: it, like, [idiom] (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, [idiom] so, [idiom] such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.
Verses using הֵם
The first 40 of 41 verses, quoted in full.
Genesis 3:7 · KJV
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 6:4 · KJV
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 7:14 · KJV
They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Genesis 14:24 · KJV
Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
Exodus 2:23 · KJV
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Exodus 6:27 · KJV
These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
Exodus 18:26 · KJV
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Exodus 36:1 · KJV
Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
Leviticus 11:27 · KJV
And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 16:4 · KJV
He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.
Numbers 1:16 · KJV
These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
Numbers 3:20 · KJV
And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
Numbers 9:7 · KJV
And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
Numbers 13:3 · KJV
And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
Numbers 14:38 · KJV
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
Numbers 20:13 · KJV
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
Deuteronomy 2:11 · KJV
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
Deuteronomy 28:65 · KJV
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
Judges 10:14 · KJV
Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
2 Samuel 24:3 · KJV
And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
2 Kings 4:5 · KJV
So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
1 Chronicles 2:55 · KJV
And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
1 Chronicles 8:13 · KJV
Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:
1 Chronicles 9:22 · KJV
All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
1 Chronicles 21:3 · KJV
And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
2 Chronicles 9:11 · KJV
And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
Psalm 16:3 · KJV
But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
Psalm 38:10 · KJV
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Ecclesiastes 3:18 · KJV
I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Ecclesiastes 9:12 · KJV
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Ecclesiastes 12:12 · KJV
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Song of Solomon 6:5 · KJV
Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
Isaiah 30:7 · KJV
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
Jeremiah 14:16 · KJV
And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
Jeremiah 36:32 · KJV
Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
Lamentations 4:9 · KJV
They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Ezekiel 10:16 · KJV
And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.
Ezekiel 10:22 · KJV
And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
Habakkuk 1:16 · KJV
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Zephaniah 2:12 · KJV
Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
Common questions
What does Strong's H1992 mean?
H1992 is the Hebrew word הֵם (hêm), meaning they (only used when emphatic).
How is H1992 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it these (6 times), they (5 times), them (3 times), whom (2 times), who (2 times), among others.
How many times does H1992 appear in the Bible?
הֵם (hêm) is tagged in 41 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H1992 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: or (prolonged) הֵמָּה; masculine plural from H1981 (הֲלַךְ).
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