King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H859
Transliteration: attah
Phonetic Spelling: (at-taw')
Part of Speech: pronoun singular masculine; pronoun singular feminine; pronoun masculine plural; pronoun feminine plural
Short Definition: you (masc. sing.)
Meaning: thou and thee, ye and you
Word Summary
attah: you (masc. sing.)
Original Word: אַתָּהTransliteration: attah
Phonetic Spelling: (at-taw')
Part of Speech: pronoun singular masculine; pronoun singular feminine; pronoun masculine plural; pronoun feminine plural
Short Definition: you (masc. sing.)
Meaning: thou and thee, ye and you
Strong's Concordance
thee, thou, ye, you Or (shortened); aatta {at-taw'}; or wath {ath}; feminine (irregular) sometimes nattiy {at-tee'}; plural masculine attem {at- tem'}; feminine atten {at-ten'}; or oattenah {at-tay'naw}; or fattennah {at-tane'-naw}; a primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you -- thee, thou, ye, you.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H859. attah
אָ֑תָּה אַתָּ֫ה, (so regularly; but 26-7 t., with different disjunctive accents, ׃אַ֑תָּה see FrMM 228; Sta§ 178 a (read 8 for 18)
pronoun 2 singular masculine thou (for anta, see above; compare נָתַתָּ for נָתַנְתָּ) Genesis 3:11, 19 +?אַתָּ 1 Samuel 24:19; Psalm 6:4; Job 1:10; Ecclesiastes 7:22; Nehemiah 9:6. Appended to a verb for emphasis, Exodus 18:19 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 17:56 אַתָּה שְׁאַל inquire thou, 20:8; 22:18; Isaiah 43:26 אַתָּה סַמֵּר. Added for the purpose of strengthening a Genitive or accusative suffix 1 Kings 21:19; Proverbs 22:19 (Ges§ 135.2).
אתי, i.e. אַתִּי, the older & more original form of אַתְּ thou (feminine), preserved, probably dialectically, 7 t. in Kt, Judges 17:2; 1 Kings 14:2; 2 Kings 4:16, 23; 8:1; Jeremiah 4:30; Ezekiel 36:13. (V. above as in Syriac, the י may not have been fully sounded: the Masoretes direct אַתְּ to be everywhere read.)
אָ֑תְּ אַתְּ, pronoun 2 singular feminine thou (feminine) (shortened from אַתִּי (q. v.); in Syriac the two Genders are written differently, , , but, the not being sounded, are pronounced alike: in ᵑ7 both are written אַתְּ or אַנְתְּ) Genesis 12:11, 13; 24:23 +? Numbers 11:15; Deuteronomy 5:24; Ezekiel 28:14 used as a masculine (as in Aramaic of ᵑ7); but probably אַתָּ (see below אַתָּה) should be here read.
אַתֶּם pronoun 2 masculine plural you (masculine) (for antem, see above) Genesis 9:7; 26:27; 29:4 +?הָאַתֶּם הֲ, Judges 6:31; following the verb for emphasis 15:12; Jeremiah 34:15; construed inaccurately with a feminine Ezekiel 13:20.
אַתֵּן Ezekiel 34:31 (many editions אַתֶּן), אַתֵּ֫נָה Genesis 31:6; Ezekiel 13:11, 20 (editions אַתֵּ֫נָּה) 34:17
pronoun 2 feminine plural you (feminine)
I. אסה (perhaps compare Arabic heal, Aramaic אֲסָא, ).