Lexical Definition

‎זוּ‎ zûw (zoo) this ^H:DemP
for ‎זֶה‎

that, this, [idiom] wherein, which, whom.

• this or that

demons pron
1) this, such rel pron
2) (of) which, (of) whom

Extended Information

• demons pron

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎זוּ‎ pronoun (poetry), indeclinable.

1. a demonstrative Hab 1:11 ‎זוּ כֹחוֺ‎ this his strength, Ps 12:8* ‎מִןהַֿדּוֺר זוּ‎ (unusual, for ‎הַזֶּה‎), Ps 62:12* ‎שְׁתַּיִםזֿוּ‎ ‎שָׁמַעָתִּי‎ these two things &c. (but: better (Wickes^{Post. Acc. 64}) ‎שְׁ֖תַּיִם ז֣וּ‎ two things (are there) which &c.: see 2). 2 a relative, Exod 15:13 ‎עַםזֿוּ גָאָ֑לְתָּ‎ the people which thou hast redeemed, vExod 15:16; Isa 42:24 ‎זוּ חָטָאנוּ לוֺ‎ against whom we sinned, Isa 43:21; Ps 9:16* (feminine) ‎רֶשֶׁתשֿזוּ ָ™פמנוּ‎ so Ps 31:5*; Ps 10:2; Ps 17:9 (with a plural antecedent) ‎מִפְּנֵי רְשָׁעִים זוּ שַׁדּוּנִי‎, Ps 32:8; Ps 68:29* (thou) who hast wrought for us ! Ps 142:4*; Ps 143:8. To most of these paasages the remark made under ‎זה‎ 5 respecting the intention of the punctuators also applies: compare De on Ps 9:16*. (compare , used as an indeclinable relative pronoun = in the Tayyite dialect: thus there has come upon them that which has come: it is we who have done this. See Schu^{Hariri Cons. ii. 75}, Thes⁴⁰⁶, W^{AG. i. 347, e}, Lane^{p. 986}, Fl^{Kl. Schr. i. p. 359}.)

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