Aramaic word · H581

אִנּוּן

'inun

they

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 4 times in 4 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

these, those, they

Aramaic of hem.mah (הֵ֫מָּה "they(masc.)" H1992)

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 · 1

  1. Ezra 5:4 אִנּוּן֙ [are] they

    They also asked, “What are the names of the men who are constructing this building?”

Daniel · 3

  1. Daniel 2:44 אִנּ֗וּן those

    In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.

    Here: A pronoun ('they') used here to mean 'those.' It points back to the kings just described. KJV's 'these' slightly weakens the distance.

  2. Daniel 6:24 אִנּ֖וּן they

    At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

    Here: Independent pronoun standing first in a list ('them, their sons, their wives'), which stresses each group in turn.

  3. Daniel 7:17 אִנִּ֖ין they

    ‘These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.

    Here: 'They', feminine because 'beasts' is feminine in Aramaic. Here it works as the linking verb 'are': 'which they [are] four'.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.