he/she/it
hu is a third-person personal pronoun that identifies or refers back to a person, woman, place, or thing in biblical clauses.
The supplied forms function as third-person personal pronouns, referring to male and female persons as well as identified places or things; the clauses use them for reference, identification, and predication rather than for a separate lexical meaning.
Senses in use
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Third-person personal reference and identification · dominant
The masculine singular form refers back to named male figures or identifies them in clauses: in 1 Chronicles 11:12 the APB renders Eleazar as "he was one of the three mighty men," and in 1 Chronicles 16:14 it renders "He is the LORD our God." The feminine singular form similarly marks a female referent or an identified location: in 1 Kings 3:27 the APB renders "she is his mother," while in 1 Chronicles 11:5 it renders Zion as "the city of David."
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly expresses the pronoun through "he," "she," or "it," and sometimes through identifying clauses such as "He is the LORD our God" or "This is the house." Individual English pronouns or demonstratives cannot always be assigned to a specific token.