Lexical Summary hen: lo! behold! Original Word: הֵןTransliteration: hen Phonetic Spelling: (hane) Part of Speech: demonstrative adverb; interjection; hypothetical particle; conjunction Short Definition: lo! behold! Meaning: lo! behold! Strong's Concordance behold, if, lo, though A primitive particle; lo!; also (as expressing surprise) if -- behold, if, lo, though. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2005. hen II. הֵן100 (הֶןֿ Numbers 23:9, 24; Job 8:19-20, 13:1; 26:14; 33:6, 12, 29; 36:5, 22, 26; הֵןֿ 13:15; 36:30; 41:1 +) demonstrative adverb or interjection lo! behold (on etymology see 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; a. Genesis 3:22 הָיָה הָאָדָם הֵן 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), Exodus 5:5; 6:12, 30; Leviticus 10:18-19, Numbers 17:27; Deuteronomy 5:21 (in prose only in Pentateuch (23 t.) and Ezekiel 18:4 in this usage); in poetry, used more freely, but chiefly in Isa2 & Job, — Numbers 23:9, 24 (Balaam) Isaiah 23:13; 32:1; 33:7; Psalm 51:7; 51:8; 68:34; 78:20; 139:4; Proverbs 11:31 (stating the premiss to a conclusion introduced by כִּי אַף, q. v.), 24:12: elsewhere (except in senses b, c) only in Isa2 (23 t.) & Job (31 t), as Isaiah 40:15 (twice in verse); 41:11, 24, 29; 50:1-2, 9 (twice in verse); 50:11; Job 4:18; 15:15; 25:5 (in these three passages before אַף or כִּי אַף), 9:1, 12 etc. (see above). b. as a hypothetical particle, propounding a possibility, if (so Late Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, Mandean, Palmyrene (ZMG 1888, 404); on the contrary Syriac , Palestinian אִין ᵑ7, also Palmyrene (ib. p. 415), Arabic with א), a special application or development of the use a: Exodus 4:1 לי יאמינו לא והן and behold ( = and suppose) they will not believe me ? etc., Leviticus 25:20 and if (וְכִי) ye say, What shall we eat the 7th year ? נִזְרַע לֹא הֵן behold, we shall not sow etc. (i.e. supposing we do not sow), Isaiah 54:15; Job 40:23; 2 Chronicles 7:13 (twice in verse) (7:13 b וְאִם); stating the ground on which a question is based, Exodus 8:22 (וְלֹא = הֲלֹא), Jeremiah 3:1; Haggai 2:12 (see הֵן Aramaic b). c. if, whether, in an indirect question, Jeremiah 2:10 כָּזֹאת הָֽיְתָה הֵן רְאוּ (but Gr הֲנִהְיְתָה); compare אִם 2b, and הֵן Aramaic 3 הֵן conjunction if, whether (Biblical Hebrew הֵן, q. v.: Zenjirli, Egyptian Aramaic (S-CPap. A 7 +), Palmyrene, Nabataean הן, Mandean הין if [ᵑ7Onk Jon use ᵑ7 אם,Jer אין, Syriac ]); — 1 if, Daniel 2:6; 3:15, 17; 4:24; 5:16; Ezra 4:13, 16; 5:17, ֗֗֗ לָא הֵן Daniel 2:5, 9; 3:15; 3:18 לָ֔א הֵן if not. 2 repeated, הֵן ֗֗֗ הֵן sive ... sive, whether ... or (compare Biblical Hebrew אִם, 1b 1), Ezra 7:26 (so PalmyreneTariff ii.c.19). 3 in indirect question, whether (compare אִם, 2b), Ezra 5:17b ֗֗֗ אִיתַי הֵן ֗֗֗ יִתְבַּקַּר. — See also לָהֵן. p. 50, 243, 1099 הַסִּק etc., see סלק Haph`el הרהר (check of following, הַרְהֵר ᵑ7, Late Hebrew הִרְהֵר reflect, brood impurely DWB 112; Syriac is injure, irritate, quarrel PS). |