Definition

they (only used when emphatic)

Etymology

or (prolonged) הֵמָּה; masculine plural from H1981 (הֲלַךְ);

Where the KJV renders it

• it
• like
• (how
• so) many (soever
• more as) they (be)
• (the) same
• so
• such
• their
• them
• these
• they
• those
• which
• who
• whom
• withal
• ye

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.