A male person or animal.
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
With dative effect or as an indirect object.
Honorific alternative letter-case form of him, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
The word "him" comes from Middle English and Old English, which both derived it from the Proto-Germanic root *himmai meaning "to this one." It is related to similar forms in modern languages like Dutch and German that also mean "him.