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.)
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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