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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 1 / 7 (Gen 3:22–1Sa 3:8)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 - You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13 - And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:9 - Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, But Esau my brother is covered with hair, while I am smooth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you, my son?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:34 - And Laban said, Let it be as you say.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:8 - But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:6 - And in the morning when Joseph came to them he saw that they were looking sad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's house?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:16 - And Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we put ourselves right in his eyes? God has made clear the sin of your servants: now we are in your hands, we and the man in whose bag your cup was seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:1 - Then Joseph went to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers with their flocks and their herds and all they have, are come from Canaan, and are now in the land of Goshen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:1 - And Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will not have faith in me or give ear to my voice; for they will say, You have not seen the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:5 - And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:12 - And Moses, answering the Lord, said, See, the children of Israel will not give ear to me; how then will Pharaoh give ear to me, whose lips are unclean?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:30 - And Moses said to the Lord, My lips are unclean; how is it possible that Pharaoh will give me a hearing?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:21 - For if you do not let my people go, see, I will send clouds of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and into their houses; and the houses of the Egyptians and the land where they are will be full of flies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:26 - And Moses said, It is not right to do so; for we make our offerings of that to which the Egyptians give worship; and if we do so before their eyes, certainly we will be stoned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:18 - Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days till now.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4 - For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send locusts into your land:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:17 - And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they will go in after them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and over his army, his war-carriages, and his horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:4 - Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6 - See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:11 - Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:18 - See, its blood was not taken into the holy place: certainly it was right for you to have taken it as food in the holy place, as I gave orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:19 - And Aaron said to Moses, You have seen that today they have made their sin-offering and their burned offering before the Lord, and such things as these have come on me. If I had taken the sin-offering as food today, would it have been pleasing to the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:20 - And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:40 - And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:12 - And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24 - See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:14 - So now I will go back to my people: but first let me make clear to you what this people will do to your people in days to come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:12 - So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of peace:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:16 - It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:24 - And said, The Lord has let us see his glory and his power, and his voice has come to us out of the fire: today we have seen that a man may go on living even after hearing the voice of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:14 - The Lord your God is ruler of heaven, of the heaven of heavens, and of the earth with everything in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:14 - At that time the Lord said to Moses, The day of your death is near: send for Joshua, and come to the Tent of meeting so that I may give him his orders. So Moses and Joshua went to the Tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:27 - For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:25 - And now we are in your hands: do to us whatever seems good and right to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:4 - The voice of the Lord said Samuel's name; and he said, Here am I.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:5 - And running to Eli he said, Here am I, for you said my name. And Eli said, I did not say your name; go to your rest again. So he went back to his bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:6 - And again the Lord said, Samuel. And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, Here am I; for you certainly said my name. But he said in answer, I said nothing, my son; go to your rest again.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:8 - And for the third time the Lord said Samuel's name. And he got up and went to Eli and said, Here am I; for you certainly said my name. Then it was clear to Eli that the voice which had said the child's name was the Lord's.

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