hem.mah is a third-person masculine plural pronoun referring back to groups of men or people in the clause.

Across the supplied verses, the form functions as a third-person masculine plural reference to an already named or contextually identified group, whether identifying a group in a list, resuming it as the subject of an action, or describing its status.

1. Third-person plural reference to a group · dominant

   The supplied forms are consistently tagged Personal, 3rd, Masc, Pl. In 1 Chronicles 12:1 the APB renders a group who came to David as “they,” while 1 Chronicles 26:6 identifies Shemaiah’s sons as those “holding dominion”; in 1 Kings 8:51 the clause identifies the group as God’s people, and 1 Samuel 12:21 resumes the plural “vain things” in the statement that they cannot profit or deliver.

   1 Chronicles 12:11 Chronicles 26:61 Kings 8:511 Samuel 12:21

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly reflects the plural reference with “they” or “these,” though it is a whole-verse translation and sometimes leaves the pronoun’s individual contribution less explicit.