Strong's Lexicon: H2005 הֵן | AI Bible Commentary

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H2005
Word:	הֵן
Part of Speech:	prt.
Etymology:	a primitive particle
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	320
Transliteration:	hen
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	hane
Meaning:	1. lo! 2. (as expressing surprise) if
KJV Renderings:	behold, if, lo, though.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB2204

II. הֵן₁₀₀ (הֶןֿ Num 23:9; Num 23:24; Job 8:19; Job 8:20; Job 13:1; Job 26:14; Job 33:6; Job 33:12; Job 33:29; Job 36:5; Job 36:22; Job 36:26 הֵןֿ Job 13:15; Job 36:30; Job 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. Gen 3:22 הֵן הָאָדָם הָיָה behold the man is become as one of us, & now lest, etc., Gen 4:14 behold, thou hast driven me forth etc., Gen 11:6; Gen 15:3; Gen 19:34; Gen 27:11 ; Gen 29:7; Gen 30:34 (nearly = yea), Exod 5:5; Exod 6:12; Exod 6:30; Lev 10:18; Lev 10:19; Num 17:27; Deut 5:21 (in prose only in Pentateuch (23 t.) and Ezek 18:4 in this usage); in poetry, used more freely, but chiefly in Isa² & Job, — Num 23:9; Num 23:24 (Balaam) Isa 23:13 ; Isa 32:1 ; Isa 33:7 ; Ps 51:7 ; Ps 51:8 ; Ps 68:34; Ps 78:20; Ps 139:4; Prov 11:31 (stating the premiss to a conclusion introduced by אַף כִּי , q. v.), Prov 24:12: elsewhere (except in senses b, c) only in Isa² (23 t.) & Job (31 t), as Isa 40:15 (twice in verse); Isa 41:11 ; Isa 41:24; Isa 41:29; Isa 50:1; Isa 50:2; Isa 50:9 (twice in verse); Isa 50:11 ; Job 4:18 ; Job 15:15; Job 25:5 (in these three passages before אַף or אַף כִּי), Job 9:1; Job 9:12 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 [untranscribed source text 1327], Palestinian ᵑ7 אִין, also Palmyrene (ib. p. 415), Arabic [untranscribed source text 1328] with א), a special application or development of the use a: Exod 4:1 והן לא יאמינו לי and behold ( = and suppose) they will not believe me ? etc., Lev 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), Isa 54:15 ; Job 40:23; 2Chr 7:13 (twice in verse) (2Chr 7:13 b וְאִם); stating the ground on which a question is based, Exod 8:22 (וְלֹא = הֲלֹא), Jer 3:1; Hag 2:12 (see הֵן Aramaic b).

c. if, whether, in an indirect question, Jer 2:10 רְאוּ הֵן הָֽיְתָה כָּזֹאת (but Gr הֲנִהְיְתָה); compare אִם 2 b, and הֵן Aramaic 3.

BDB4342

לָהֵן conjunction on this account, therefore, Ruth 1:13 (twice in verse) (either from לְ and הֵן (see below הֵ֫מָּה); or the Aramaic לָהֵן Dan 2:6; Dan 2:9; Dan 4:24: see the Aramaic Lexicon)

BDB9477

הֵן conjunction if, whether (Biblical Hebrew הֵן , q. v.: Zenjirli, Egyptian Aramaic (S-C^{Pap. A 7} +), Palmyrene, Nabataean הן, Mandean הין if [ ᵑ7 ^{Onk Jon} use אם, ᵑ7 ^Jer אין, Syriac [untranscribed source text 5998]]); —

1. if, Dan 2:6; Dan 3:15; Dan 3:17; Dan 4:24; Dan 5:16; Dan 5:17, הֵן לָא ֗֗֗ Dan 2:5; Dan 2:9; Dan 3:15 Dan 3:18 הֵן לָ֔א if not.

2. repeated, הֵן ֗֗֗ הֵן sive … sive, whether … or (compare Biblical Hebrew אִם, 1 b 1), Ezra 7:26 (so Palmyrene^{Tariff ii.c.19}).

3. in indirect question, whether (compare אִם, 2.b.), Ezra 5:17b יִתְבַּקַּר ֗֗֗ הֵן אִיתַי ֗֗֗ . — See also לָהֵן. p. 50, 243, 1099

הַסִּק etc., see סלק Haph`el

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

הן (hn)

Genesis 3:92

EHCC: Behold, the man is become as one of us,

Genesis 39:7

KJV: And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

EHCC: And he said, Lo, (it is) yet high day,

Leviticus 10:18

KJV: Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.

EHCC: Behold, the blood of it was not brought in

2 Chronicles 7:13

KJV: If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

EHCC: Jf 1 shut up heaven that there be no rain,

Job 13:15

KJV: Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.maintain: Heb. prove, or, argue

EHCC: he slay me, yet will I trust in

Strong's Lexicon

H2005 — הֵן