אַתָּה
ʼattâh · at-taw'
thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you
Lexicon
Derivation: or (shortened); אַתָּ; or אַת; feminine (irregular) sometimes אַתִּי; plural masculine אַתֶּם; feminine אַתֶּן; or אַתֵּנָהlemma אתֵּנָה missing vowel, corrected to אַתֵּנָה; or אַתֵּנָּה; a primitive pronoun of the second person;
thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: thee, thou, ye, you.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › the mark, the covenant sign › to reveal, behold
Strength, the leader of the mark, the covenant sign that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אַתָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
1094 occurrences · 1094 OT · 0 NT · 132 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- thou3 · 27%
- and ye3 · 27%
- because thou1 · 9%
- art thou1 · 9%
- unto her, thou1 · 9%
- wherewith ye1 · 9%
- and as for you1 · 9%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.