הנה
these
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Pronoun
- A word standing in for a noun (“he,” “this,” “who”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural 46 times (96%)
- Preposition 1 time (2%)
- Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 1 time (2%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 48 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2007 appears — 44 distinct verses across 15 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.
Genesis 6 verses
- Genesis 6:2 הֵ֑נָּה pron pers 3fp that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
- Genesis 21:29 הֵ֗נָּה pron pers 3fp Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"
- Genesis 33:6 הֵ֥נָּה pron pers 3fp Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.
- Genesis 41:19 כָ/הֵ֛נָּה prep + pron pers 3fp and, behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.
- Genesis 41:26 הֵ֔נָּה הֵ֑נָּה pron pers 3fp pron pers 3fp The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
- Genesis 41:27 הֵ֔נָּה pron pers 3fp The seven lean and ill-favored cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
Exodus 3 verses
- Exodus 1:19 הֵ֔נָּה pron pers 3fp The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
- Exodus 9:32 הֵֽנָּה pron pers 3fp But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.
- Exodus 39:14 הֵ֛נָּה pron pers 3fp The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
Leviticus 4 verses
- Leviticus 4:2 מֵ/הֵֽנָּה prep + pron pers 3fp "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them:
- Leviticus 6:3 בָ/הֵֽנָּה prep + pron pers 3fp or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning therein;
- Leviticus 18:10 הֵֽנָּה pron pers 3fp "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.
- Leviticus 18:17 הֵ֖נָּה pron pers 3fp "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 13:19 בָּ/הֵ֔נָּה prep + pron pers 3fp and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
- Numbers 31:16 הֵ֜נָּה pron pers 3fp Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 17:28 הָ/הֵ֨נָּה֙ ptcl def.art + pron pers 3fp Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.
- 1 Samuel 27:8 הֵ֜נָּה pron pers 3fp David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
2 Samuel 2 verses
- 2 Samuel 4:6 וְ֠/הֵנָּה conj + pron pers 3fp They came there into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
- 2 Samuel 12:8 כָּ/הֵ֥נָּה וְ/כָ/הֵֽנָּה prep + pron pers 3fs conj + prep + pron pers 3fp I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Proverbs 2 verses
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 34:16 מֵ/הֵ֨נָּה֙ prep + pron pers 3fp Seek you out of the book of Yahweh, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it has commanded, and his Spirit, it has gathered them.
- Isaiah 41:22 הֵ֗נָּה pron pers 3fp Let them bring forth, and declare to us what shall happen: declare you the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
- Isaiah 51:19 הֵ֨נָּה֙ pron pers 3fp These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
Jeremiah 4 verses
- Jeremiah 5:6 מֵ/הֵ֖נָּה prep + pron pers 3fp Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.
- Jeremiah 5:17 בָּ/הֵ֖נָּה prep + pron pers 3fp They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.
- Jeremiah 34:7 הֵ֗נָּה pron pers 3fp when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone] remained of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities.
- Jeremiah 38:22 וְ/הֵ֣נָּה conj + pron pers 3fp behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on, and have prevailed over you: [now that] your feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.
Ezekiel 11 verses
- Ezekiel 1:5 לָ/הֵֽנָּה prep + pron pers 3fp Out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
- Ezekiel 1:23 לָ/הֵ֔נָּה לָ/הֵ֔נָּה prep + pron pers 3fp prep + pron pers 3fp Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: everyone had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.
- Ezekiel 16:51 מֵ/הֵ֔נָּה prep + pron pers 3fp Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.
- Ezekiel 18:4 הֵ֔נָּה הֵ֑נָּה pron pers 3fp pron pers 3fp Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.
- Ezekiel 23:45 הֵ֔נָּה pron pers 3fp Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
- Ezekiel 30:17 וְ/הֵ֖נָּה conj + pron pers 3fp The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
- Ezekiel 42:5 מֵ/הֵ֗נָה prep + pron pers 3fp Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.
- Ezekiel 42:6 הֵ֔נָּה pron pers 3fp For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.
- Ezekiel 42:9 לָ/הֵ֔נָּה prep + pron pers 3fp From under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.
- Ezekiel 42:13 הֵ֣נָּה pron pers 3fp Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; for the place is holy.
- Ezekiel 42:14 הֵ֑נָּה pron pers 3fp When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to the people.
Zechariah 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.
At its core, הנה (hênnâh) means “these.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 6:2. It appears 44 verses across 15 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. The word gravitates to Ezekiel (25%), then Genesis and Leviticus. It clusters with הן and הנה under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2007 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 →
- 44
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 44 distinct verses.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #767
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 767 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 44 occurrences in the concordance →
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 44 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 23 verses · 52%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 16 verses · 36%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 11%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Them 4×, They 3×, Side 2×
- American Standard Version†: Them 3×, They 3×, Side 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: They 5×, Are 3×, Those 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: They 11×, The 5×, Them 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2007 across 26† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2007 across 26† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2007 across 21† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 11 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2007 across 46† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
23 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 23 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
הנה I
- 1.
- a. Gn 6:4; Ex 5:7 הֵם יֵֽלְכוּ let them (emph.) go and gather straw, Nu 31:16; Is 24:14; Ho 4:14; 7:3 etc.; after כִּי Je 5:5; 34:7. (For the use in circumst. clauses v. Dr§ 160, 169.) e.g. Genesis 6:4
- b. Ju 1:22 ויעלו … גַם הֵם, Dt 2:11 (אַף הֵם), 3:20; Jos 9:4; Ez 30:17. e.g. Judges 1:22
- c. Ex 18:22 every small matter יִשְׁפְּטוּ־הֵם let them judge themselves, v 26 Je 15:19; 17:18 ψ 109:28; Est 9:1. e.g. Exodus 18:22
- d. Gn 33:6; 44:3 Jud 6:5 etc. e.g. Genesis 33:6
- e. cf. Ne 10:38. e.g. Nehemiah 10:38
- 2.
- a. (Resuming the subj. with emph.) Gn 14:24 (note accents), Dt 1:39 ψ 23:4; 27:2 (accents), 37:9; 107:24; Ez 36:7; 44:15. e.g. Genesis 14:24
- b. Is 30:7; Ez 27:13, 17, 21; cf. Is 44:11. e.g. Isaiah 30:7
- c. Nu 14:27a Je 27:9; Ez 43:19 אֲשֶׁר הֵם מִזֶּרַע צָדוֹק, Ec 4:2; Ne 2:13.—הֵמָּה כִּדְוֵי לַחֻמִי Jb 6:7 read perhaps וַהֲמָה וגו׳ (or זָֽהֲמָה) it is loathesome (√ זהם). e.g. Numbers 14:27
- 3.
- a. Gn 3:7; Ex 5:8 כִּי נִרְפִּים הֵם for they are idle, 14:3; 15:23; 29:33 etc. (the opp. order rare: Nu 11:16 Is 61:9, cf. De ψ 94:11). e.g. Genesis 3:7
- b. Gn 34:21, 23; 41:26; 48:5 שׁני בניך … לִי הֵם thy two sons …, they are mine, Ex 32:16 + often: Is. 41:22 הָרִאשֹׁנוֹת מָה הֵנָּה, 49:21 אֵלֶּה אֵיפֹה הֵם these—where were they? Zp 2:12 after אַתֶּם, peculiarly (cf. Dr§ 198 Obs. 2). e.g. Genesis 34:21
- c. Dt 20:15 אֲשֶׁר לֹא־מֵעָרֵי הַגּוֹיִם הָאֵלֶּה הֵנָּה, Ju 19:12 1 K 9:20. e.g. Deuteronomy 20:15
- d. 2 K 7:10 כַּאֲשֶׁר הֵמָּה. (Pr 19:7 Kt לֹא־הֵמָּה is prob. corrupt: v. Comm.) e.g. 2 Kings 7:10
- 4.
- a. Pr 30:24 אַרְבָּעָה הֵם קְטַנֵּי־אָ֑רֶץ four things are they, the little ones of the earth, v 29 (cf. before a rel. clause v 15, 18; 6:16) Ct 6:8; Is 51:19 שְׁתַּיִם הֵנָּה קֹרְאֹתַיִךְ, 1 Ch 9:26 (v. הוא 4 a). e.g. Proverbs 30:24
- b. (β) Gn 21:29 מָה הֵנָּה שֶׁבַע … lit. What are they—these seven sheep? Zc 1:9; 4:5. (γ) אֵלֶּה … הֵם †Gn 25:16 (= 1 Ch 1:36) Lv 23:2; Nu 3:20, 21, 27, 33 1 S 4:8 1 Ch 8:6; 12:15 (v. Dr§ 201, 3). e.g. Genesis 21:29
- 6.
- a. In a neuter sense (rare), Jb 6:7 הֵמָּה כִּדְוֵי לַחְמִי they (i.e. such sufferings as mine) are as loathsomeness in my meat, Je 7:4 הֵיכַל י׳ הֵמָּה they (i.e. these buildings) are the temple of י׳; and in the fem., Lv 5:22 of all that a man doeth to sin בָּהֵנָּה therein, 1 Ch 21:10 מֵהֵנָּה (‖ 2 S 24:12 מֵהֶם); 2 S 12:8 Jb 23:14 כָּהֵנָּה things such as these. e.g. Job 6:7
- 7. With art. הָהֵם, Gn 6:4; Ex 2:11; Nu 14:38 + often; הָהֵמָּה 12 times (v. supr.); הָהֵנָּה †1 S 17:28. N.B.—Ez 8:6 Kt מָהֵם stands for מָה הֵם (so Qr), cf. מַזֶּה for מַה־זֶּה Ex 4:2; 2 K 9:18 עַד־הֵם is irreg. for עֲדֵיהֶם; 2 S 4:6 וְהֵנָּה וג׳ is textual error for וְהִנֵּה שֹׁעֶרֶת הַבַּיִת סֹקְלָה חִטִּים וג׳ v. We Dr (𝔊 & RVm). e.g. Genesis 6:4
- 8. With preps. (in lieu of the normal, and more usual, forms with suffixes בָּהֶם, לָהֶם, מֵהֶם etc. [כָּהֶם & כָּהֶן, however, each once only, כְּמוֹהֶם thrice: v. כְּ])—
- a. בָּהֵמָּה †Ex 30:4; 36:1 (both P), Hb 1:16; כָּהֵמָּה †Je 36:32; לָהֵמָּה †Je 14:16; מֵהֵמָּה †Je 10:2 Ec 12:12. e.g. Exodus 30:4
- b. כָּהֵם †2 S 24:3 Yahweh add to the people כָּהֵם וְכָהֵם מֵאָה פְעָמִים the like of themselves and the like of themselves 100 times, = 1 Ch 21:3 (but כָּהֵם here only once, cf. Dt 1:11 כָּכֶם), 2 Ch 9:11; Ec 9:12. e.g. 2 Samuel 24:3
- c. בָּהֵנָּה †Lv 5:22 (P) Nu 13:19 (JE) Je 5:17: כָּהֵנָּה †Gn 41:19 2 S 12:8 וְאֹסִפָה לְךָ כָּהֵנָּה וְכָהֵנָּה, Jb 23:14: לָהֵנָּה †Ez 1:5, 23(×2); 42:9; Zc 5:9: מֵהֵנָּה †Lv 4:2 (P) Is 34:16; Je 5:6; Ez 16:51; 42:5 ψ 34:21 1 Ch 21:10 (‖ 2 S 24:12 מֵהֶם). e.g. Leviticus 5:22
- d. בָּהֵן †Gn 19:29 (P) 30:26, 37 Ex 25:29; 37:16 (both P) Lv 10:1; 11:21; 14:40 Nu 10:3; 16:7 (all P) Dt 28:52; Jr 4:29; 48:9; 51:43(×2) (בָּהֶן thrice only, v. p. 88); כָּהֵן †Ez 18:14 (edd.; Baer כָּהֶן); לָהֵן (= therefore) †Ru 1:13(×2) (also Biblical Aramaic); מֵהֵן †Ez 16:47, 52 (edd.; Baer מֵהֶן). (With the exception of כָּהֵנָּה, these forms are found mostly in P and writers not earlier than Je.; b and d, however, depend solely on the punctuation.) e.g. Genesis 19:29
הנה II hither (perhaps from II. הֵן, used δεικτικῶς, with ה-loc., proposes lo hitherwards! or perhaps akin to هُنَا, هَنَّا, هِنَّا here)
- a. of place: (α) hither Gn 15:16 יָשׁוּבוּ הֵנָּה, 42:15; 45:5 that you have sold me הֵנָּה hither, v 8, 13 Jos 2:2; 3:9; 18:6 2 S 1:10 Is 57:3 וְאַתֶּם קִרְבוּ הֵנָּה, Je 31:8; 50:5 +; 1 S 20:21 מִמְּךָ וָהֵנָּה from thee and hitherwards, i.e. on this side of thee (opp. מִמְּךָ וָהָֽלְאָה): repeated 2 K 4:35 אַחַת הֵנָּה וְאַחַת הֵנָּה once hither and once thither = once to and fro; הֵנָּה וָהֵנָּה hither and thither i.e. in different (or opposite) directions, †Jos 8:20 2 K 2:8, 14 1 K 20:40 strangely וַיְהִי עַבְדְּךָ עֹשֵׂה הֵנָּה וָהֵנָּה lit. and thy servant was a doer of hitherwards and thitherwards, i.e. was engaged in different directions (Ew§ 360, c treats ה׳ here as the pron. 3 pl. fem. construed irregularly, cf. עֹשֵׂה אֵלֶּה: but read prob. with 𝔊 𝔗 𝔖 𝔙 Th Klo פֹּנֶה was turning or looking (Ex 2:12) for עֹשֵׂה); עַד־הֵנָּה even hither, Nu 14:19 1 S 7:12 2 S 20:16 קְרַב עַד־הֵנָּה, 2 K 8:7, to this point (in a book) Je 48:47; 51:64 (note of compiler or scribe). (β) here (cf. שָׁמָּה = there) Gn 21:23 swear to me הֵנָּה here, Dn 12:5 הֵנָּה לְ׳ … הֵנָּה לְ׳ on this side of … on that side of … e.g. Genesis 15:16
- b. of time, in עַד הֵנָּה hitherto Gn 15:16 (with a neg., = not yet) 44:28 Ju 16:13 ψ 71:17 & until now do I keep declaring thy wonders, 1 Ch 9:18; 12:30 until now (the point reached in the narrative). In late Heb., contracted to עֲדֶ֫נָה hitherto, still †Ec 4:2, עֲדֶן †Ec 4:3 אֲשֶׁר עֲדֶן לֹא הָיָה = who has not yet been (cf. Mish. עֲדַיִן hitherto, still, עֲדַיִן לֹא = not yet). e.g. Genesis 15:16
הנה III on. 3 pl.fem. they
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. and הֵם (without appreciable distinction in usage, except prob. in so far as the longer or shorter form was better adapted to the rhythm of particular sentences: on the whole הֵמָּה (alone) is somewhat more freq. than הֵם, הָהֵם on the contrary is said regularly, הָהֵמָּה occurring only 12 times, viz. Nu 9:7 (P), Je 14:15 Zc 14:15, and in the phr. בַּ(הַ)יָּמִים הָהֵמָּה 2 K 18:4 Je 3:16, 18; 5:18; 50:4; Jo 3:2; 4:1; Zc 8:23; Ne 13:15, though בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם is much more common) pron. 3 pl. masc. (הֵמָּה used incorrectly for the fem. Zc 5:10; Ru 1:22; Ct 6:8), fem. הֵ֫נָּה [NH also הֵן, which occurs however in Bibl. Heb. only after a prefix: v. infr. 8], pr. 3 pl. they (Biblical Aramaic הִמּוֹ, q.v.; هُنَّ, هُمْ; Ethiopic (one form) እሙንቱ: እማንቱ: ʾemūn-tū, ʾemān-tū; cf. also for the dissyl. form, the sf. –ōmū [fem. –ōn]; perhaps also Assyrian suff. šunu, šina[ni], cf. reff. sub הוּא). In usage not different in genl. from הוּא, הִיא (which see, under the corresponding headings, for fuller explanations), thus:—
I. adv. hither (perhaps from II. הֵן, used δεικτικῶς, with ה-loc., proposes lo hitherwards! or perhaps akin to هُنَا, هَنَّا, هِنَّا here)—
II. pron. 3 pl.fem. they: v. הֵ֫מָּה.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from הן (hên) (H2004) — these.
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.
הַנָּה
- , v. הָן
הִנֵּה
- v. הֵן) behold, here is. Koh. R. to V, 6 ה׳ של בו"ד the ‘here is’ of a human being (Esth. VIII, 7), ה׳ של הק"בה the ‘here is’ of the Lord (Zech. XIV, 1).—הִנֵּנִי here am I. Gen. R. s. 55 ה׳ לכהונה I am ready for priesthood; a. fr. e.g. Esther 8:7
הָנָה
- , v. הני
הני
- (denom. of הֲנָאָה), Nif. נֶהֱנֶה (= נֵאוֹת, v. אוֹת I)
- 1. to be pleased, to enjoy, to profit. B. Kam. 20ᵃ, a. fr. זה נה׳ the one is benefitted &c., opp. חָסֵר. Ib. II, 2 משלם מה שנֶהֱנֵית he must pay for what the animal has enjoyed (eaten or drunk), contrad. to מה שהזיקה what she has damaged. Ber. 10ᵇ הרוצה לֵהָנוֹת יהָנֶה וכ׳ (Rashi לֵיהָ׳) he who desires to make use (of people’s hospitalities), may do so following the example of Elisha. R. Hash. 28ᵃ, a. fr. מצות לא ליהנות ניתנו religious ceremonies are not considered an enjoyment (as regards the use of sacred property &c.); a. v. fr.
- 2. to be enjoyed. Ber. 35ᵃ דבר שנ׳ something which is enjoyable (can be eaten &c.).
- to benefit, to entertain, to cause to share. Snh. 92ᵃ אינו מְהַנֶּה ת"ח וכ׳ allows no scholar to share his wealth. Ber. 63ᵇ bot. ומְהַנֵּהוּ וכ׳ and invites him to partake of his wealth. Yad. IV, 3 הרי אתה כמְהַנָּן וכ׳ you appear to benefit them pecuniarily, but &c. Ab. Zar. 16ᵇ sq. שמא דבר מינית … והִנָּאֲךָ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 20) perhaps a heretical idea was communicated to thee and it pleased thee; Yalk. Prov. 937; a. fr. [Snh. 102ᵇ הֶהֱנָה Hif., marginal note היה מְהַנֶּה; v. Yalk. Kings 207.]
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 31 distinct written forms H2007 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הֵ֔נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Exodus 1:19 | 6 |
| הֵ֑נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Ezekiel 18:4 | 4 |
| הֵ֗נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Genesis 21:29 | 3 |
| הֵֽנָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Deuteronomy 20:15 | 3 |
| לָ/הֵ֔נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Ezekiel 1:23 | 3 |
| הֵ֜נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | 1 Samuel 27:8 | 2 |
| הֵ֭נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Proverbs 6:16 | 2 |
| מֵ/הֵ֖נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | 1 Chronicles 21:10 | 2 |
| בָ/הֵֽנָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Leviticus 6:3 | 1 |
| בָּ/הֵ֔נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Numbers 13:19 | 1 |
| בָּ/הֵ֖נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Jeremiah 5:17 | 1 |
| הֵ֖נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Leviticus 18:17 | 1 |
| הֵ֛נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Exodus 39:14 | 1 |
| הֵ֣נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Ezekiel 42:13 | 1 |
| הֵ֥נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Genesis 33:6 | 1 |
| הֵ֨נָּה֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Isaiah 51:19 | 1 |
| הָ/הֵ֨נָּה֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | 1 Samuel 17:28 | 1 |
| וְ/הֵ֖נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Ezekiel 30:17 | 1 |
| וְ/הֵ֣נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Jeremiah 38:22 | 1 |
| וְ/כָ/הֵ֖נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Job 23:14 | 1 |
| וְ/כָ/הֵֽנָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | 2 Samuel 12:8 | 1 |
| וְ/לָ/הֵ֥נָּה | Preposition | Zechariah 5:9 | 1 |
| וְ֠/הֵנָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | 2 Samuel 4:6 | 1 |
| כָ/הֵ֛נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Genesis 41:19 | 1 |
| כָּ/הֵ֥נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | 2 Samuel 12:8 | 1 |
| לָ/הֵֽנָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Ezekiel 1:5 | 1 |
| מֵ/הֵ֔נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Ezekiel 16:51 | 1 |
| מֵ/הֵ֗נָה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Ezekiel 42:5 | 1 |
| מֵ/הֵ֨נָּה֙ | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Isaiah 34:16 | 1 |
| מֵ/הֵֽנָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Leviticus 4:2 | 1 |
| מֵ֝/הֵ֗נָּה | Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural | Psalms 34:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2007, 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.
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Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 42 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 44 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 6:2
- Exodus 1:19
- Leviticus 4:2
- Numbers 13:19
- Deuteronomy 20:15
- 1 Samuel 17:28
- 2 Samuel 4:6
- 1 Chronicles 21:10
- Psalms 34:20
- Proverbs 6:16
- Isaiah 34:16
- Jeremiah 5:6
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
