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title: הֵא — behold like · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: הֵא (lemma:הֵא), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: behold like. BDB 1906: demonstr. part. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# הֵא

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«הֵא» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **behold like** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:הֵא · **BDB:** הֵא

### Glosses

here! (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

behold like [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b5_5d0/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

demonstr. part. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b5_5d0/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** demonstr. part., prefixed idiom. to כְּ for greater definiteness, lit. behold like (BH הֵא, v. הָא supr.), only in הֵא־כְדִי Dn 2:43 הֵא־כְדִי פַרְזְלָא לָא מִתְעָרַב like as iron doth not mingle with clay (cf.a. 𝔗O הָא כְמַוָּא Gn 49:4, so 𝔗jor הא כ׳ Is 5:28; 9:4 + often; 𝔗Jer הֵי כ׳ Gn 26:4, 18, 22 + often; הֵיךְ ψ 2:9; 5:10, 13 +, also pleon. הֵיךְ כְּ׳ ψ 22:14, 15, 17 + often b. Palm. הֵיךְ as (Lzb259), as היך בנמוסא as (is) in the law (Cooke321; so 𝔗Jer ψ 2:9, etc.), הֵיךְ דִּי conj. (like Dn הֵא כְדִי: = Heb. כַּאֲשֶׁר), as היך די גבא like as he levied, Cooke Tariff ii. b 12. 18, c 14. 17. 21. 26 \[𝔗O Jon for כַּאֲשֶׁר have כְּמָא דְ׳, 𝔗Jer הֵיכְמָא דְ׳, 𝔖 ܐܰܝܟ ܕ\]. It is dub. whether הֵא כְדִי belongs to a (notice especially 𝔗Jon) or b: Schulth ZAW 1902, 164 f. to b, reading הֵאךְ דִּי (but א rare and late: D§ 45. 1); NesOLtz. 1892, 488 from הֵיךְ (v. BH) how?). הַב v. יְהַב.

### Jastrow 1903

הֵא II: He-He. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b5_5d0/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** He-He. Ab. V, 23 בן הא הא. Ḥag. 9ᵇ בר הֵי הֵי (Ms. M. 2 הֵיהֵי); Yalk. Is. 328; Yalk. Mal. 591 בר הא הא (v. Rabb. D. S. to Ḥag. l. c. note 19).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (15 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «הֵא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b5_5d0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 2:43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.43/)

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וְדִ֣י חֲזַ֗יְתָ פַּרְזְלָא֙ מְעָרַב֙ בַּחֲסַ֣ף טִינָ֔א מִתְעָרְבִ֤ין לֶהֱוֺן֙ בִּזְרַ֣ע אֲנָשָׁ֔א וְלָֽא־לֶהֱוֺ֥ן דָּבְקִ֖ין דְּנָ֣ה עִם־דְּנָ֑ה הֵֽא־כְדִ֣י פַרְזְלָ֔א לָ֥א מִתְעָרַ֖ב עִם־חַסְפָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and that you.saw the iron mixed with the.clay of the.clay mixing they.will.be with the.offspring of.(the) humankind and not they.will.be clinging this with this here! like that (the) iron not \[is\].mixing with (the) clay

*JPS 1917:* And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves by the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay.

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