H2063 Hebrew

זֹאת

zot

this

Lexicon Entry

Definition

this

Transliteration

zot

Strong's Number

H2063

Occurrences

604

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

# זֹאת (zot) — "This" The Hebrew word זֹאת (zot) is a demonstrative pronoun meaning "this," functioning as one of the Bible's most frequently employed words with 604 occurrences. As a demonstrative, it serves to point out or identify something specific within a text, making it a fundamental tool for biblical narrative and instruction. Its high frequency across the Hebrew scriptures indicates its essential role in establishing reference and directing attention to particular persons, objects, events, or ideas that the author wishes to emphasize. The prevalence of this word reflects how biblical Hebrew relies on demonstrative pronouns to create clear communication and maintain narrative coherence. By using זֹאת to mark what is "this" versus what is "that," biblical writers organized information and guided readers through complex theological and historical accounts. The word appears across various genres—from legal codes to wisdom literature to narrative accounts—suggesting its applicability across different types of Hebrew discourse and its necessity for basic grammatical functioning in the language.

Source data & methodology

Strong's: H2063
Lemma: זֹאת
Transliteration: zot
Definition: this
Occurrences: 604
Model: claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Prompt version: 1

AI synthesis uses only the lexicon data above as context — never training knowledge.

Occurrences in Scripture

604 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

2 Chronicles 20:7

Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?

2 Chronicles 20:17

You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’ ”

2 Chronicles 21:18

After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

2 Chronicles 24:18

They abandoned the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

2 Chronicles 25:16

As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”

2 Chronicles 27:5

He also fought with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. The children of Ammon also gave that much to him in the second year, and in the third.

2 Chronicles 29:9

For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

2 Chronicles 30:9

For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

2 Chronicles 30:26

So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 31:1

Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

2 Chronicles 31:20

Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.

2 Chronicles 32:15

Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”

2 Chronicles 32:20

Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

Nehemiah 13:22

I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

2 Chronicles 34:22

So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter), and they spoke to her to that effect.

2 Chronicles 35:20

After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him.

Ezra 7:27

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

Ezra 8:23

So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.

Ezra 9:10

“Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,

Ezra 9:13

“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

Ezra 9:15

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

Ezra 10:2

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

Ezra 10:15

Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

Nehemiah 5:16

Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.

Nehemiah 6:16

When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.

Nehemiah 9:38

Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”

Nehemiah 13:18

Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

Nehemiah 13:18

Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

Nehemiah 13:27

Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”

Esther 4:14

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Esther 4:14

Esther 9:26

Therefore they called these days “Purim”, from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,

Esther 9:29

Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.

Job 1:22

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Job 2:11

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Job 5:27

Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

Job 10:13

Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

Job 12:9

Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,

Job 17:8

Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

Job 19:26

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

Job 20:4

Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,