In the nominative or objective case.

He; but himself is more emphatical, or more expressive of distinct personality than he. With shame remembers, while himself was one . Of the same herd, himself the same had done.

When himself is added to he, or to a noun, it expresses discrimination of person with particular emphasis. But he himself returned from the quarries. Judges 3:19. But God himself is with us for our captain.2 Chronicles 13:12.

When used as the reciprocal pronoun, it is not usually emphatical. David hid himself in the field. 7 Samuel 20:24.

It was formerly used as a substitute for neuter nouns; as high as heaven himself.

It is sometimes separated from he; as, he could not go himself, for he himself could not go.

Himself is used to express the proper character, or natural temper and disposition of a person, after or in opposition to wandering of mind, irregularity, or devious conduct from derangement, passion or extraneous influence. We say, a man has come to himself, after delirious or extravagant behavior. Let the man alone; let him act himself. By himself, alone; unaccompanied; sequestered. He sits or studies by himself. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. 7 Kings 18:6.