--- title: הָא — lo! · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary description: הָא (lemma:הָא), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: lo!. BDB 1906: demonstr. part. lo! behold!. With 1 verse 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_5b8_5d0.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)‎ / הָא‎ # הָא «הָא» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **lo!** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers. **Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:הָא · **BDB:** הָא ### Glosses look! (1) ### Meaning (OSHB) lo! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b8_5d0/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) demonstr. part. lo! behold! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b8_5d0/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** demonstr. part. lo! behold! (BH הֵא (twice); Egyptian Aramaic and Têma הא (Cooke 195, 198); 𝔗 הָא; Syriac ܗܳܐ; Mand. הא (NöM 81); Arabic هَا: in Aramaic also often prefixed to pr. 3 ps. for greater definiteness, as 𝔗 הָהוּא, ܗܰܘ (for hā-hū), v. NöM 89 f. WCG 106 f.), Dn 3:25. ### Jastrow 1903 הָא II: Oh! korban ha-korban behold as if as so is it that? where? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b8_5d0/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** (v. preced.) an interjection, (cmp. הָ־) Oh! Targ. Jer. IV, 30 (not והא). —Ned. II, 2 (15ᵇ) הא קרבן שאוכל לך (Mish. a. Y. ed. קרבן) Oh, the sacrifice, that I will (not) eat this which belongs to thee!. Ib. 16ᵃ לא שני ליה קרבן … הקרבן draws no distinction between korban and ha-korban (v. marginal note to Rashi a. l.). Ib. II, 2 הא שבועה שאוכל לך (Mish. a. Y. ed. שבועה) Oh, an oath that \&c. Ib. 16ᵃ מכלל דהא שבועה שאוכל וכ׳ we infer from this that ‘Oh, an oath that I will eat’ means that I will not eat. behold(h. . Dan. III, 25.—Targ. Gen. III, 22. Ib. XX, 15; a. fr.—Dan. II, 43 הֵא־כְדִי as if.—Targ. Ps. CXXIII, 2 הָא כמא as, … הא כדין Ms. (ed. הֵכְדֵין) so introducing a question, is it that? Targ. Job XV, 7; a. e.—Ib. XXXVIII, 19 הא דין Ms. (ed. אֵידֵין) where? Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (15 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «הָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b8_5d0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Daniel 3:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.25/) עָנֵ֣ה וְאָמַ֗ר הָֽא־אֲנָ֨ה חָזֵ֜ה גֻּבְרִ֣ין אַרְבְּעָ֗ה שְׁרַ֙יִן֙ מַהְלְכִ֣ין בְּגֽוֹא־נוּרָ֔א וַחֲבָ֖ל לָא־אִיתַ֣י בְּה֑וֹן וְרֵוֵהּ֙ דִּ֣י רְֽבִיעָאָ֔ה דָּמֵ֖ה לְבַר־אֱלָהִֽין׃ס *Word for word:* \[he.was\].replying and \[he.was\].saying look! I \[am\].seeing men four loosed walking in the.midst of the.fire and hurt not there \[is\].on them and appearance his (diy).of the fourth \[is\].like (et).a son of.\[the\].gods *JPS 1917:* He answered and said: 'Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.' - ← previous: [הֵא](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d4_5b5_5d0.md) - next →: [הַדָּבָר](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d4_5b7_5d3_5b8_5bc_5d1_5b8_5e8.md) - ↑ back to [ה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/1492.md)