ךְ
kh
you
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Analysis of Hebrew Pronoun ךְ (kh) The Hebrew pronoun ךְ (transliterated as *kh*) functions as a second-person singular pronoun meaning "you." With 333 occurrences across the biblical text, it represents a fundamental grammatical element of Hebrew communication, enabling speakers and writers to address individual recipients directly. As a second-person form, it serves the basic linguistic function of identifying and engaging a single listener or reader in discourse. The substantial frequency of this pronoun—333 instances—reflects its essential role in biblical narrative, dialogue, and instruction. This high occurrence rate is consistent with what one would expect from a pronoun that appears whenever biblical texts involve direct address to an individual person. Whether in historical narratives, laws, prayers, or prophetic utterances, this pronoun would naturally recur whenever the speaker or writer needed to invoke or reference a singular "you." Its widespread distribution across the biblical corpus underscores that direct address to individuals was a common rhetorical mode throughout the Hebrew Bible's various literary genres.
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Occurrences in Scripture
333 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
Esther 5:3Then the king asked her, “What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.”
Esther 5:3Then the king asked her, “What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.”
Esther 5:6The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
Esther 7:2The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
Esther 9:12The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”
Job 1:15and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 1:16While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 1:17While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 1:19and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 5:23For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
Job 5:27Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”
Job 7:20If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 7:20If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 8:10Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
Job 10:4Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
Job 12:7“But ask the animals, now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
Job 13:24Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
Job 22:25The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
Job 22:28You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
Job 35:3that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
Job 40:9Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
Psalms 6:5For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
Psalms 33:22Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you.
Psalms 41:4I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
Psalms 45:14She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
Psalms 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—
Psalms 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Psalms 54:6With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
Psalms 56:12Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.
Psalms 66:4All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name.”
Psalms 66:15I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats.
Psalms 71:23My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!
Psalms 80:15the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
Psalms 80:17Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
Psalms 83:1God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
Psalms 87:3Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God.
Psalms 87:7Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”
Psalms 91:4He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
Psalms 91:11For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
Psalms 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Psalms 119:62At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.
Psalms 120:3What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
Psalms 122:8For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
Psalms 122:9For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.
Leviticus 21:8Therefore you shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.
Psalms 128:2For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
Psalms 132:11Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
Psalms 132:12If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
Psalms 137:8Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.