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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Them

Them (t͟hĕm), pron. [AS. ðǣm, dat. pl. of the article, but influenced by the Scand. use of the corresponding form þeim as a personal pronoun. See They.] The objective case of they. See They.

Go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. Matt. xxv. 9.

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father. Matt. xxv. 34.

☞ Them is poetically used for themselves, as him for himself, etc.

Little stars may hide them when they list. Shak.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.