Aramaic word · H1994
הִמּוֹ
himo
they
A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?
Appears 12 times in 11 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·
What it means
1) they, them
1a) they (subject)
1b) them (object)
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
Ezra · 9
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Ezra 4:10 הִמּ֔וֹ them
and the rest of the peoples whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and elsewhere west of the Euphrates.
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Ezra 4:23 הִמּ֖וֹ them
When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.
Here: 'Them', the Judeans. Biblical Aramaic often uses this independent pronoun as the object of a verb.
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Ezra 5:5 הִמּ֔וֹ them
But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.
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Ezra 5:11 הִמּ֡וֹ they
And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.
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Ezra 5:12 הִמּ֔וֹ them
But since our fathers angered the God of heaven, He delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean who destroyed this temple and carried away the people to Babylon.
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Ezra 5:14 הִמּ֔וֹ הִמּ֜וֹ them
He also removed from the temple of Babylon the gold and silver articles belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken and carried there from the temple in Jerusalem. King Cyrus gave these articles to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor
Here: Refers back to the vessels.
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Ezra 5:15 הִמּ֔וֹ them
and instructed, ‘Take these articles, put them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its original site.’
Here: 'Them', the vessels. It stands after the verb as the object, as in 5:14 ('carried them').
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Ezra 7:17 הִמּ֔וֹ them
With this money, therefore, you are to buy as many bulls, rams, and lambs as needed, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and offer them on the altar at the house of your God in Jerusalem.
Daniel · 3
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Daniel 2:34 הִמּֽוֹן׃ them
As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
Here: "Them": the feet. Verse 35 then spreads the destruction to the whole statue.
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Daniel 2:35 הִמּוֹן֙ them
Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Here: 'Them': all the pulverized materials together.
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Daniel 3:22 הִמּ֔וֹן them
The king’s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the fiery flames killed the men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
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