treat הוא as emphasizing the pronoun, ‘Thou, he, art God’ i.e. Thou and none else art God; ‘ Thou (emph.) art my king.’ ( β ) מִי הוּא , sq. a ptcp. or subst. Gn 27:33 ψ 24:10 מִי הוּא זֶה מֶלֶךְ הַכָּבֹוד who is he, then—the king of glory? (according to others, as before, ‘ Who (emph.), then, is the king of glory?’); sq. a verb Is 50:9 מִי הוּא יַרְשִׁיעֵנִי who is the (that) will condemn me? ( al. ‘ Who (emph.) will condemn me?’) Jb 4:7 ; 13:19 ; 17:3 ; 41:2 Je 30:21 (so with הֵנָּה Gn 21:2 9, הֵמָּה Zc 1:9 ; 4:5 ). ( γ ) זֶה־הוּא •1 Ch 22:1 Ec 1:17 (freq. in NH , where the two words coalesce into one זֶהוּ ). On the analogous … אֵלֶּה הֵם , v. הֵמָּה 4 b ( γ ). ( Cf. Dr ^§ 200, 201. )

5. As an emph. predicate, of God, ‘I am He,’ i.e. I am He Who is ( opp. to unreal gods, named in context, or to transitory world), the Unseen, yet Omni-present, and Self-consistent, Ruler of the world, • Dt 32:39 אֲנִי אֲנִי הוּא I, I am he , and beside me there is no God, Is 41:4 ( v. Ch e) 43:10 , 13 even from to-day I am he , 46:4 ; 48:12 ψ 102:28 ( v. Ch e) thou art he , and thy years have no end ( Ö usually ἐγώ εἰµι : in ψ σὺ δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς εἶ ). So also, according to many, Jb 3:19 , but is הוא a mere predicate of identity? v. rather 3 b.

6. In a neuter sense, that, it (of an action, occurrence, matter, etc.)— a. Jos 2:21 כֶּן־הוּא כְּדִבְרֵיכֶם according to your words, so be it; Gn 42:14 הוא אשׁר דברתי that is what I said, Ex 16:23 Lv 10:3 2 K 9:3 6; Jb 8:19 הן הוא משׂושׂ דרכו lo that (what has just been described) is the joy of his way, 13:16 ; 15:9 ; 31:28 ; Pr 7:23 Ec 2:1 ; 3:22 ; 9:9 Est 9:1 b; similarly the fem. הִיא , Ju 14:4 they knew not כי מי׳ היא that it was from י׳ , Nu 14:41 Jos 10:13 Is 14:24 ψ 77:10 חַלֹּותִי הִיא it (this perplexity) is my sickness, Jb 9:22 Pr 18:13 Je 22:16 2 Ch 25:20 Ec 3:1 3; ref. to זאת Am 7:6 ψ 118:23 Jb 5:2 7, זֹה Ec 2:2 4. (Where there is a predicate, the gender of this usually regulates the choice of m. or f. : hence הִוא Gn 34:14 Ex 8:15 Nu 15:25 ( Ec 5:5 ) Dt 4:6 +.) b. affirming the presence or existence of something (rare): 2 K 18:36 = Is 36:21 הַמֶּלֶךְ הִיא כִּי מִצְוַת for it was the king’s command, saying etc., 1 S 20:33 (text dub. ), Je 50:15 , 25 ; 51:6 , 11 Mi 2: 3, perhaps Jb 32:8 . Cf. Dr ^§ § 198–201

7. With the art. הַהוּא , הַהִיא , הָהֵ˜מָּה , הָהֵם , הָהֵ˜נָּה : so regularly when joined to a subst. defined itself by the art.: Gn 2:12 הָאָרֶץ הַהִוא that land, 19:35 ובלילה ההוא and in that night, 21:22 הַהִוא בָּעֵת at that time, Dt 1:19 ההוא המדבר הגדול והנורא . Only four times does there occur the anomalous construction בַּלַּיְלָה הוּא Gn 19:3 3; 30:16 ; 32:23 1 S 19:1 0.