הֵיךְ
how
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Particle
- A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
Every verse where H1963 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Daniel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew verb היך centers on the idea of “how.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to 1 Chronicles (50%), then Daniel. Debuting at 1 Chronicles 13:12, it then recurs through the corpus. It shares a root with איך and איכה. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1963 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 50%
- Daniel 1 verse 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: How 2×
- American Standard Version: How 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: How 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: How 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1963 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1963 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1963 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1963 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- how
Word origin
adv. how? (היך, ܗܝܟ, id., in Palest. Aramaic, as Jb 21:34 𝔗, Gn 3:9 Dt 1:12 𝔗Ps.-J., Mat 22:12 𝔖Jerus. (though usually these words have the force of as), and in הֵיכְדֵין how, then? ψ 73:11 + 𝔗; cf. BevanDan p. 29)—only twice, in late Heb., 1 Ch 13:12 (‖ 2 S 6:9 אֵיךְ), Dan 10:17.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from איך (ʼêyk) (H349) — how.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
הֵיךְ
- (= הֵי כְּ)
- 1. how? (v. הֵיאַךְ). Y. Erub. I, 19ᵇ bot. ה׳ עבידא how can it happen?, i.e. name a case to which this rule will apply.
- 2. as, like; in Targ. editions mostly with double comparison: הֵיךְ כְּ־.—Targ. Ps. XXII, 15, sq.; a. v. fr.—ה׳—ה׳ as—so. Targ. Ps. CXXXIX, 12.—ה׳ מה as that which, even as. Targ. Y. II, Num. XXIV, 1, v. infra.—ה׳ מה דאת אמר (abbr. המד"א) even as you read in the Scriptures. Gen. R. s. 1, beg.; a. v. fr.—Y. Succ. III, 54ᵃ top ה׳ מה דאמרת וכ׳ the same words which you spoke to the one, you spoke to the other!—Combined הֵיכְמָא, הֵיכְמָה. Targ. Y. Gen. XXI, 1; a. fr.—Y. Erub. I, 19ᵇ; a. fr.—As prefix to nouns הֵיכ־. Targ. I Chr. II, 54 היכנטופא (ed. Lag. הי כנ׳). Ib. 55 (ed. Lag. הי כ־); v. הֵי II.—*[
- 3. (v. next w.) where? Targ. Ps. LXXXIX, 50 Ms. (ed. אָן).]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H1963 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הֵ֚יךְ | Particle, Interrogative | 1 Chronicles 13:12 | 1 |
| וְ/הֵ֣יךְ | Particle, Interrogative | Daniel 10:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1963, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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