הֵן

II. הֵן₁₀₀ (הֶןֿ 4 Mos 23,9; 4 Mos 23,24; Job 8,19; Job 8,20; Job 13,1; Job 26,14; Job 33,6; Job 33,12; Job 33,29; Job 36,5; Job 36,22; Job 36,26 הֵןֿ Job 13,15; Job 36,30; Job 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. 1 Mos 3,22 הֵן הָאָדָם הָיָה behold the man is become as one of us, & now lest, etc., 1 Mos 4,14 behold, thou hast driven me forth etc., 1 Mos 11,6; 1 Mos 15,3; 1 Mos 19,34; 1 Mos 27,11; 1 Mos 29,7; 1 Mos 30,34 (nearly = yea), 2 Mos 5,5; 2 Mos 6,12; 2 Mos 6,30; 3 Mos 10,18; 3 Mos 10,19; 4 Mos 17,27; 5 Mos 5,21 (in prose only in Pentateuch (23 t.) and Ezk 18,4 in this usage); in poetry, used more freely, but chiefly in Isa² & Job, — 4 Mos 23,9; 4 Mos 23,24 (Balaam) Es 23,13; Es 32,1; Es 33,7; Sl 51,7; Sl 51,8; Sl 68,34; Sl 78,20; Sl 139,4; Ord 11,31 (stating the premiss to a conclusion introduced by אַף כִּי, q. v.), Ord 24,12: elsewhere (except in senses b, c) only in Isa² (23 t.) & Job (31 t), as Es 40,15 (twice in verse); Es 41,11; Es 41,24; Es 41,29; Es 50,1; Es 50,2; Es 50,9 (twice in verse); Es 50,11; Job 4,18; Job 15,15; Job 25,5 (in these three passages before אַף or אַף כִּי), Job 9,1; Job 9,12 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 ᵑ7 אִין, also Palmyrene (ib. p. 415), Arabic with א), a special application or development of the use a: 2 Mos 4,1 והן לא יאמינו לי and behold ( = and suppose) they will not believe me ? etc., 3 Mos 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), Es 54,15; Job 40,23; 2 Kron 7,13 (twice in verse) (2 Kron 7,13 b וְאִם); stating the ground on which a question is based, 2 Mos 8,22 (וְלֹא = הֲלֹא), Jer 3,1; Hag 2,12 (see הֵן Aramaic b).
\ \ c. if, whether, in an indirect question, Jer 2,10 רְאוּ הֵן הָֽיְתָה כָּזֹאת (but Gr הֲנִהְיְתָה); compare אִם 2 b, and הֵן Aramaic