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title: הֵן — lo! · The Tanakh dictionary
description: הֵן (2005), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 99 times: lo!. BDB 1906: demonstr. adv. interj. lo! behold hypoth. part. if, whether. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# הֵן

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«הֵן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lo!** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 99 times · **Key:** 2005 · **BDB:** הֵן²

### Glosses

here! (51); there! (48)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lo! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2005/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

demonstr. adv. interj. lo! behold hypoth. part. if, whether [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2005/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (הֶן־ †Nu 23:9, 24 Jb 8:19, 20; 13:1; 26:14; 33:6, 12, 29; 36:5, 22, 26; הֵן־ Jb 13:15; 36:30 41:1 +) demonstr. adv. or interj. lo! behold (on etym. v. הִנֵּה), less widely used than הִנֵּה, and in prose mostly confined to calling attention to some fact upon which action is to be taken, or a conclusion based; Gn 3:22 הֵן הָאָדָם הָיָה behold, the man is become as one of us, \& now lest, etc., 4:14 behold, thou hast driven me forth etc., 11:6; 15:3; 19:34; 27:11; 29:7; 30:34 (nearly = yea), Ex 5:5; 6:12, 30 Lv 10:18, 19 Nu 17:27 Dt 5:21 (in prose only in Pent. (23 times) and Ez 18:4 in this usage); in poetry, used more freely, but chiefly in Is 2 \& Jb,—Nu 23:9, 24 (Balaam) Is 23:13; 32:1; 33:7 ψ 51:7, 8; 68:34; 78:20; 139:4 Pr 11:31 (stating the premiss to a conclusion introduced by אַף כִּי, q.v.), 24:12: elsewhere (except in senses b, c) only in Is 2 (23 times) \& Jb (31 times), as Is 40:15(×2); 41:11, 24, 29; 50:1, 2, 9(×2), 11 Jb 4:18; 15:15; 25:5 (in these three passages before אַף or אַף כִּי), 9:11, 12 etc. (v. supr.). as a hypoth. part., propounding a possibility, if (so NH Biblical Aramaic, Mand. Palm. (ZMG 1888, 404); on the contr. Syriac ܐܶܢ, Pal. 𝔗 אִין, also Palm. (ib. p. 415), Arabic إِنْ, with א), a special application or development of the use a: Ex 4:1 והן לא יאמינו לי and behold (= and suppose) they will not believe me?, Lv 10:8; 25:20 and if (וְכִי) ye say, What shall we eat the 7th year? הֵן לֹא נִזְרַע behold, we shall not sow etc. (i.e. supposing we do not sow), Is 54:15 Jb 9:12; 13:15; 40:23 2 Ch 7:13(×2) (v 13b וְאִם); stating ground on which a qu. is based, Ex 8:22 (וְלֹא = הֲלֹא), Je 3:1 Hg 2:12 (v. הֵן Aramaic b). if, whether, in an indirect question, Je 2:10 רְאוּ הֵן הָֽיְתָה כָּזֹאת (but Gr הֲנִהְיְתָה); cf. אִם 2 b, and הֵן Aramaic c.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 62 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «הֵן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2005/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 30:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.34/)

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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר לָבָ֖ן הֵ֑ן ל֖וּ יְהִ֥י כִדְבָרֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Laban there! if let.it.be according to your.word

*JPS 1917:* And Laban said: 'Behold, would it might be according to thy word.'

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[Job 21:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.27/)

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הֵ֣ן יָ֭דַעְתִּי מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם וּ֝מְזִמּ֗וֹת עָלַ֥י תַּחְמֹֽסוּ׃

*Word for word:* here! I.know thoughts your and.\[the\] schemes \[which\].on me you.do.violence

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

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