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Lexicon :: Strong's H2005 - hēn

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הֵן
Transliteration
hēn
Pronunciation
hane
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Part of Speech
hypothetical participle, interjection
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive particle
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 510

Strong’s Definitions

הֵן hên, hane; a primitive particle; lo!; also (as expressing surprise) if:—behold, if, lo, though.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's H2005 in the following manner: lo, behold, if, or if, though.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's H2005 in the following manner: lo, behold, if, or if, though.
interjection

  1. behold, lo, though

    hypothetical participle

  2. if

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
הֵן hên, hane; a primitive particle; lo!; also (as expressing surprise) if:—behold, if, lo, though.
STRONGS H2005: Abbreviations
II. הֵן 100 (הֶןֿ † Numbers 23:9, 24; Job 8:19, 20; 13:1; 26:14; 33:6, 12, 29; 36:5, 22, 26; הֵןֿ Job 13:15; 36:30; 41:1 [Job 41:9] +) 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 הֵן הָאָדָם הָיָה behold the man is become as one of us, & now lest, etc., Genesis 4:14 behold, thou hast driven me forth etc., Genesis 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 times) 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 אַף כִּי, q. v.), Proverbs 24:12: elsewhere (except in senses b, c) only in Isaiah 2 (23 times) & Job (31 times), as Isaiah 40:15 (twice in verse); Isaiah 41:11, 24, 29; 50:1, 2, 9 (twice in verse); Isaiah 50:11; Job 4:18; 15:15; 25:5 (in these three passages before אַף or אַף כִּי), Job 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 NAe , Palestinian Targum אִין, also Palmyrene (ib. p. 415), Arabic إِنْ with א), a special application or development of the use a: Exodus 4:1 והן לא יאמינו לי 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 ? הֵן לֹא נִזְרַע 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))2 Chronicles 7:13b וְאִם); stating the ground on which a question is based, Exodus 8:22 (וְלֹא = הֲלֹא), Jeremiah 3:1; Haggai 2:12 (see H2006 הֵן Aramaic b).
†c. if, whether, in an indirect question, Jeremiah 2:10 רְאוּ הֵן הָֽיְתָה כָּזֹאת (but Gr הֲנִהְיְתָה); compare H518 אִם 2b, and H2006 הֵן Aramaic 3.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:22; 4:14; 11:6; 15:3; 19:34; 27:11; 29:7; 30:34

Exodus

4:1; 5:5; 6:12; 6:30; 8:22

Leviticus

10:18; 10:19; 25:20

Numbers

23:9; 23:9; 23:24; 23:24

Deuteronomy

5:21

2 Chronicles

7:13; 7:13

Job

4:18; 8:19; 8:20; 9:1; 9:12; 13:1; 13:15; 15:15; 25:5; 26:14; 33:6; 33:12; 33:29; 36:5; 36:22; 36:26; 36:30; 40:23; 41:9

Psalms

51:7; 51:8; 68:34; 78:20; 139:4

Proverbs

11:31; 24:12

Isaiah

2; 23:13; 32:1; 33:7; 40:15; 41:11; 41:24; 41:29; 50:1; 50:2; 50:9; 50:11; 54:15

Jeremiah

2:10; 3:1

Ezekiel

18:4

Haggai

2:12

H2005

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Strong's Number H2005 matches the Hebrew הֵן (hēn),
which occurs 318 times in 311 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 7 (1Sa 3:16–Ezr 9:15)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:16 - Then Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son.” And he said, “Here I am.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:3 - “Here I am; testify against me before the LORD and His anointed. Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I exploited? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to close my eyes with it? I will return it to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7 - His armor bearer said to him, “Do everything that is in your heart; turn yourself to it, and here I am with you, as your heart desires.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:43 -

So Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” And Jonathan told him, and said, “I did indeed taste a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am, I must die!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:12 - Saul said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub.” And he [fn]replied, “Here I am, my lord.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:19 - Then she said to her young men, “Go on ahead of me; behold, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:7 - “When he looked behind himself, he saw me, and called to me. And I said, ‘Here I am.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:1 -

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and [fn]said, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:11 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am going to raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will sleep with your wives in [fn]broad daylight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:26 - “But if He says this: ‘I have no delight in you,’ then here I am, let Him do to me as seems good [fn]to Him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:8 - “The LORD has brought back upon you all the bloodshed of the house of Saul, in whose place you have become king; and the LORD has handed the kingdom over to your son Absalom. And behold, you are caught in your own evil, for you are a man of bloodshed!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:5 - “So behold, I [fn]intend to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, just as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, he will build the house for My name.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:22 - However, Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me that you are here, requesting to go to your own country?” And he answered, “Nothing; nevertheless you must let me go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:31 - And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces; for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold, I am going to tear the kingdom away from the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:10 - therefore behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and I will eliminate from Jeroboam [fn]every male person, both [fn]bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, just as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:3 - behold, I am going to [fn]burn Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:12 - But she said, “As the LORD your God lives, I have no food, only a handful of flour in the [fn]bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering [fn]a few sticks so that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, so that we may [fn]eat it and die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:13 -

Now behold, a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I am going to hand them over to you today, and you shall know that I am the LORD.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:36 - Then he said to him, “Because you have not listened to the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you leave me, a lion will [fn]kill you.” And as soon as he left him a lion found him and [fn]killed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21 - “Behold, I am bringing disaster upon you, and I will utterly sweep you away, and will eliminate from Ahab every male, both [fn]bond and free in Israel;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:25 - And Micaiah said, “Behold, you are going to see how on that day when you go from one inner room to [fn]another trying to hide yourself.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:2 - The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning responded to the man of God and said, “Even if the LORD were to make [fn]windows in heaven, could this thing happen?” Then he said, “Behold, you are going to see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat [fn]any of it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13 - One of his servants responded and said, “Please, have some men take five of the horses that remain, which are left [fn]in the city. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they will be like all the multitude of Israel who have already perished, so let us send them and see.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:19 - At that time the royal officer had responded to the man of God and said, “Now even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could such a thing as this happen?” And he had said, “Behold, you are going to see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat [fn]any of it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:7 - “Behold, I am going to put a spirit in him so that he will hear news and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:5 - “Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your father David says: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I am going to heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:12 - therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such a disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears about it, both of his ears will ring.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:16 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am going to bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants, all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:20 - ‘Therefore, behold, I am going to gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes will not look at all the devastation that I am going to bring on this place.’” So they brought back word to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:25 - Behold, he was honored among the thirty, but he did not attain the reputation of the first three; and David appointed him over his bodyguard.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - “If H2005 I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if H2005 I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:11 -

Now, the acts of Asa from the first to the last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:24 - And Micaiah said, “Behold, you are going to see how on that day when you go from one inner room to [fn]another trying to hide yourself.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:16 - ‘Tomorrow, go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley in front of the wilderness of Jeruel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:24 -

When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they turned toward the multitude, and behold, they were corpses lying on the ground, and there was no survivor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:34

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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first [fn]to last, behold, they are written in the annals of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is [fn]recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:27 - As to his sons and the many pronouncements against him and the [fn]rebuilding of the house of God, behold, they are written in the [fn]treatise of the Book of the Kings. Then his son Amaziah became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 25:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:26 - Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, from the first to the last, behold, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 27:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:7 - Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:26 - Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from the first to the last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - “Moreover, all the utensils which King Ahaz had discarded during his reign in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and consecrated; and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:32 -

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his deeds of devotion, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:18

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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are among the records of the kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - His prayer also and how God was moved by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the [fn]Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of [fn]Hozai.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:24 - this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am bringing [fn]evil on this place and on its inhabitants, all the curses written in the book which they have read in the presence of the king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:28 - “Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, so your eyes will not see all the evil which I am bringing on this place and its inhabitants.”’” And they brought back word to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - Then Jeremiah chanted a song of mourning for Josiah. And all the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their songs of mourning to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are also written in the Lamentations.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:27 - and his acts, the first to the last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:8 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and [fn]the abominations which he committed, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:15 - “LORD God of Israel, You are righteous, for we have been left an escaped remnant, as it is this day; behold, we are before You in our guilt, for no one can stand before You because of this.”

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