Lexical Definition

‎אֲנִי‎ ʼănîy (an-ee') I ^H:PerP-CS
contracted from ‎אָנֹכִי‎

I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, [idiom] which, [idiom] who.

• I

1) I (first pers. sing. -usually used for emphasis)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אֲנִי‎, ‎אָ֫נִי‎ pronoun 1 singular, common I (, ‎אֲנָא‎, , ) Gen 6:17; Gen 9:9; Gen 9:12 + often Following a participle as its subject (to express mostly either a true present or the futurum instans [immanent future]) Gen 18:17 ‎הַמְכַסֶּה אֲנִי‎ Amos I hiding from Abraham that which, etc., Judg 15:3; 1Sam 3:13; Jer 1:12; Jer 38:14; Jer 44:29 (see Dr^{§ 135,4}). Appended to a verb, it expresses, in early Hebrew, a real emphasis, as Judg 8:23 ‎לֹא אֶמְשֹׁל אֲנִי בָּכֶם‎ I will not rule over you, 2Sam 12:28 lest I take the city, 2Sam 17:15 thus and thus did Ahitophel counsel, and thus and thus ‎יָעַצְתִּי אָ֫נִי‎ did I counsel; but in later Hebrew It is sometimes pelonastc, Eccl 2:11; Eccl 2:15; Eccl 2:18; Eccl 2:20 +. In response to a question, ‎אָ֫נִי‎ alone = I am, It is I, Gen 27:24; Judg 13:11; 1Kgs 18:8 +. With ‎הֲֶ‎ ‎הַאֲנִי‎ Isa 66:9. (Synonym ‎אָנֹכִּי‎, q. v.)

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