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Lexicon :: Strong's H2005 - hēn

Aa
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 Box1Sa 3:16

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:3 - “Here I am. Witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I received any bribe with which to blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7 - So his armorbearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Go then; here I am with you, according to your heart.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:43 - Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” And Jonathan told him, and said, “I only tasted a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand. So now I must die!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:12 - And Saul said, “Hear now, son of Ahitub!” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:19 - And she said to her servants, “Go on before me; see, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:7 - “Now when he looked behind him, he saw me and called to me. And I answered, ‘Here I am.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:1 - Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and spoke, saying, “Indeed we are your bone and your flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:11 - “Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:26

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:8 - “The LORD has brought upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son. So now you are caught in your own evil, because you are a bloodthirsty man!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:5 - And behold, I propose to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to my father David, saying, “Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build the house for My name.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:22 - Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that suddenly you seek to go to your own country?” So he answered, “Nothing, but do let me go anyway.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:31 - And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:10 - “therefore behold! I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:3 - “surely I will take away the posterity of Baasha and the posterity of his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:12 - So she said, “As the LORD your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:13 - Suddenly a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel, saying, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today, and you shall know that I am the LORD.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:36 - Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, surely, as soon as you depart from me, a lion shall kill you.” And as soon as he left him, a lion found him and killed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21 - ‘Behold, I will bring calamity on you. I will take away your posterity, and will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both bond and free.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:25 - And Micaiah said, “Indeed, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:2 - So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “Look, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” And he said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13 - And one of his servants answered and said, “Please, let several men take five of the remaining horses which are left in the city. Look, they may either become like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; or indeed, I say, they may become like all the multitude of Israel left from those who are consumed; so let us send them and see.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:19 - Then that officer had answered the man of God, and said, “Now look, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he had said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:7 - “Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:5 - “Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:16 - “Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will bring calamity 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 Box2Ki 22:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:20 - “Surely, therefore, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place.” ’ ” So they brought back word to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:25 - Indeed he was more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. And David appointed him over his guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:11 - Note that the acts of Asa, first and last, are indeed written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:24 - And Micaiah said, “Indeed you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:16 - ‘Tomorrow go down against them. They will surely come up by the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the brook before the Wilderness of Jeruel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:24 - So when Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude; and there were their dead bodies, fallen on the earth. No one had escaped.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:34 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, indeed they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:27 - Now concerning his sons, and the many oracles about him, and the repairing of the house of God, indeed they are written in the annals of the book of the kings. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:26

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:26

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - “Moreover all the articles which King Ahaz in his reign had cast aside in his transgression we have prepared and sanctified; and there they are, before the altar of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:32 - Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, indeed they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:18 - Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, indeed they are written in the book[fn] of the kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - Also his prayer and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and trespass, and the sites where he built high places and set up wooden images and carved images, before he was humbled, indeed they are written among the sayings of Hozai.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:24 - “Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will bring calamity on this place and on its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:28 - “Surely I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place and its inhabitants.” ’ ” So they brought back word to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - Jeremiah also lamented for Josiah. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Josiah in their lamentations. They made it a custom in Israel; and indeed they are written in the Laments.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:27 - and his deeds from first to last, indeed they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:8 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations which he did, and what was found against him, indeed they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. Then Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:15 - “O LORD God of Israel, You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. Here we are before You, in our guilt, though no one can stand before You because of this!”

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