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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.
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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; bear witness against me before Yahweh and His anointed. Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? I will restore it to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7 - And his armor bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart; turn yourself, and here I am with you according to your heart.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:43 -

Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” So Jonathan told him and said, “I indeed tasted 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 - And Saul said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub.” And he [fn]answered, “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 before 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 - “Then he turned to look behind him, and 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 - “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives from before your sight and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:26 - “But if He should say thus, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am, let Him do to me as seems good in His sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:8 - “Yahweh has returned upon you all the bloodshed of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and Yahweh has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. And behold, you are taken 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 Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set 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 - Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you are seeking to go to your own country?” And he answered, “Nothing; nevertheless you must surely [fn]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 thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of 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 evil on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam [fn]every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, 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 sweep away 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 Yahweh your God lives, I have no [fn]bread, 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 that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may 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, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver them into your hand today, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.’”

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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 Yahweh, behold, as soon as you walk away from me, a lion will strike you down.” And as soon as he had walked away from him, a lion found him and struck him down.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21 - “Behold, I will bring evil upon you, and will utterly sweep you away, and will cut off from Ahab every [fn]male, both 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 will see on that day when you enter an inner room to hide.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:2 - And the royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning answered the man of God and said, “Behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” Then he said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat [fn]of it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13 - And one of his servants answered and said, “Please, let some men take five of the remaining horses, which remain [fn]in the city. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who remain in it; behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who have already come to an end, so let us send and see.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:19 - And the royal officer had answered the man of God and said, “Now behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he had said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat [fn]of it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:7 - “Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a report 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 ruler of My people, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of your father David, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:12 - therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:16 - thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even 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 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 will 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 to the three. And David appointed him over his guard.

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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 grasshopper to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:11 -

Now behold, the acts of Asa from first to 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 will see on that day when you enter an inner room to hide.”

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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 Box2Ch 20:24 -

Now Judah came to the lookout of the wilderness, and they turned toward the multitude, and behold, they were corpses fallen on the ground, and no one had escaped.

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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 chronicles 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 - Now as to his sons and the many [fn]oracles 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 Amaziah his son 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 first to 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, even 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 first to 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 rejected during his reign in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and set apart as holy; and behold, they are before the altar of Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:32

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Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his deeds of lovingkindness, 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, even his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are among the chronicles 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 entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the [fn]Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the chronicles of the [fn]Hozai.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:24 - thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even 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 will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.”’” So 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 lament for Josiah. And all the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them a statute 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, first to 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 did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:15 - “O Yahweh, the 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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