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II. הֵן‎₁₀₀ (הֶןֿ‎ Numbers 23:9, 24; Job 8:19-20, 13:1; 26:14; 33:6, 12, 29; 36:5, 22, 26; הֵןֿ‎ 13:15; 36:30; 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. Genesis 3:22 הָיָה הָאָדָם הֵן‎ behold the man is become as one of us, & now lest, etc., 4:14 behold, thou hast driven me forth etc., 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 t.) 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 כִּי אַף‎, q. v.), 24:12: elsewhere (except in senses b, c) only in Isa² (23 t.) & Job (31 t), as Isaiah 40:15 (twice in verse); 41:11, 24, 29; 50:1-2, 9 (twice in verse); 50:11; Job 4:18; 15:15; 25:5 (in these three passages before אַף‎ or כִּי אַף‎), 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 , Palestinian אִין ᵑ7‎, also Palmyrene (ib. p. 415), Arabic with א‎), a special application or development of the use a: Exodus 4:1 לי יאמינו לא והן‎ 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 ? נִזְרַע לֹא הֵן‎ 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) (7:13 b וְאִם‎); stating the ground on which a question is based, Exodus 8:22 (וְלֹא‎ = הֲלֹא‎), Jeremiah 3:1; Haggai 2:12 (see הֵן‎ Aramaic b).

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

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 ᵑ7 אם,‎^Jer אין‎, Syriac ]); —

1 if, Daniel 2:6; 3:15, 17; 4:24; 5:16; Ezra 4:13, 16; 5:17, ֗֗֗ לָא הֵן‎ Daniel 2:5, 9; 3:15; 3:18 לָ֔א הֵן‎ if not.

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

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

הַסִּק‎ etc., see סלק‎ Haph`el

הרהר‎ (check of following, הַרְהֵר ᵑ7‎, Late Hebrew הִרְהֵר‎ reflect, brood impurely D^{WB 112}; Syriac is injure, irritate, quarrel PS).