Definition

{he (she or it); self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are}

Etymology

(Aramaic) or (feminine) הִיא; (Aramaic), corresponding to H1931 (הוּא)

Where the KJV renders it

• are
• it
• this

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

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