--- title: הֵן — if · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary description: הֵן (lemma:הֵן), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 16 times: if. BDB 1906: conj. if, whether. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d4_5b5_5df.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Biblical Aramaic](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/) / [ה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/1492.md)‎ / הֵן‎ # הֵן «הֵן» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **if** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 16 times · **Key:** lemma:הֵן · **BDB:** הֵן ### Glosses if (11); whether (3); or (2) ### Meaning (OSHB) if [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b5_5df/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) conj. if, whether [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b5_5df/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** conj. if, whether (BH הֵן, q.v.: Zenj. Egyptian Aramaic (S-CPap. A 7 +), Palm. Nab. הן, Mand. הין if \[𝔗OJon use אם, 𝔗Jer אין, Syriac ܐܶܢ\]);— if, Dn 2:6; 3:15, 17; 4:24; 5:16 Ezr 4:13; 16; 5:17, הֵן לָא … Dn 2:5, 9; 3:15; v 18 הֵן לָ֔א if not. repeated, הֵן … הֵן sive … sive, whether … or (cf. BH אִם, 1 b I), Ezr 7:26 (so Palm. Tariff ii. c. 19). in indirect question, whether (cf. אִם, 2 b), Ezr 5:17b יִתְבַּקַּר … הֵן אִיתַי ….—Vid. also לָהֵן. ### Jastrow 1903 הֵן ²: here is, behold behold, they are how?, indeed! if. whether or. yes no yes [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b5_5df/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** (b. h. הֵן) here is, behold. הִינָּם, הִינָּן behold, they are. Ned. V, 6 (48ᵃ) והי׳ לפניך אלא וכ׳ Bab. ed. (Mish. ואינן; Y. ed. והן בפניך עד) and behold they are before thee (thine), but only in order that my father \&c. (introducing a question or exclamation) how?, indeed! Y. Shek. I, 45ᵈ bot. הן נקרא ולא וכ׳ can we, indeed, read this and not feel ashamed? (Bab. ed. הניקרא, marginal correct. Ms. M. הן נק׳). if. Dan. II, 5, sq.; a. fr.—הן—הן whether—or. Ezra VII, 26.—B. Bath. VII, 2 הן חסר הן יתר whether it be less (than a Beth Kor) or more. Ib. 3; a. e. yes (cmp. אִין I). B. Mets. 49ᵃ, v. הִין II Mekh. Yithro s. 4 answer על לאו לאו ועל הן הן no to a prohibition and yes to a positive command. Ib. s. 5 ה׳ וה׳ yes, indeed; a fr.—Ned. 11ᵃ, a. fr. מכלל לאו אתה שומע הן from the negative we derive the affirmative by implication; Y. ib. I, end, 37ᵃ, a. e. ממשמע לאו וכ׳. Men. X, 3 (65ᵃ). Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «הֵן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b5_5df/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Daniel 3:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.17/) הֵ֣ן אִיתַ֗י אֱלָהַ֙נָא֙ דִּֽי־אֲנַ֣חְנָא פָֽלְחִ֔ין יָכִ֖ל לְשֵׁיזָבוּתַ֑נָא מִן־אַתּ֨וּן נוּרָ֧א יָקִֽדְתָּ֛א וּמִן־יְדָ֥ךְ מַלְכָּ֖א יְשֵׁיזִֽב׃ *Word for word:* if there \[is\].our God whom we \[are\].paying.reverence \[is\].being.able to deliver us from the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning and from hand your O king he.will.deliver *JPS 1917:* If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, He will deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and out of thy hand, O king. [Ezra 4:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.13/) כְּעַ֗ן יְדִ֙יעַ֙ לֶהֱוֵ֣א לְמַלְכָּ֔א דִּ֠י הֵ֣ן קִרְיְתָ֥א דָךְ֙ תִּתְבְּנֵ֔א וְשׁוּרַיָּ֖ה יִֽשְׁתַּכְלְל֑וּן מִנְדָּֽה־בְל֤וֹ וַהֲלָךְ֙ לָ֣א יִנְתְּנ֔וּן וְאַפְּתֹ֥ם מַלְכִ֖ים תְּהַנְזִֽק׃ *Word for word:* now known let.it.be to the king (diy).that if the city this it.will.be.built and the walls they.will.be.finished tribute tax and toll not they.will.give and eventually kings it.will.injure *JPS 1917:* Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, impost, or toll, and so thou wilt endamage the revenue of the kings. - ← previous: [הַמְנִיךְ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d4_5b7_5de_5b0_5e0_5b4_5d9_5da_5b0.md) - next →: [הַרְהֹר](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d4_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d4_5b9_5e8.md) - ↑ back to [ה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/1492.md)