Word

הֵן

hên · H2004 · Hebrew · 197 occurrences

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Meanings

they, them

Third-person feminine plural pronoun, referring to a group of female persons or grammatically feminine things

Examples
Ezekiel 16:47 “Yet you have not merely walked in their ways and committed their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you also acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.
Jeremiah 48:9 “Give wings to Moab, For she will flee away; And her cities will become a desolation, Without inhabitants in them.

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 1 groups

שְׁנַיִםtwo 2

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עִירcity, town 1

What it doesIt is the subject

6 occurrences in 3 groups

בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 3
הָיָהto be, to become 2
יָלַדto bear 1

What is done to itIt is the object

15 occurrences in 12 groups

Other words · 12 groups that occur once or twice (15) 15

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

דֶּרֶךְway, road 1
מוּצָקdistress 1
נֶגַעplague, disease 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

66 occurrences in 8 groups

בin/on/with 33
לto/for 26
עַלon, upon, over, against 23
אַחַרafter, behind 12
מִןfrom 10
אֵלto, toward 9

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

109 occurrences in 47 groups

חָצֵרcourt, courtyard 26
אָבfather 8
מִגְרָשׁpasture land, open land 8
יֶלֶדchild, young man 5
אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 5
מַרְאֶהappearance, sight, vision 4
Other words · 38 groups that occur once or twice (44) 44

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Word family 12 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

הוּא hûwʼ · H1931 · he, she, it · 1879×כֹּה kôh · H3541 · thus, so, this is what · 577×הֵם hêm · H1992 · them · 562×הֵנָּה hênnâh · H2007 · they, here · 49×הֵנָּה hênnâh · H2008 · they, here · 47×כָּכָה kâkâh · H3602 · thus, in this manner, in this way · 37×הֵןhên · H2004הוּא hûwʼ · H1932 · are, it, this · 15×הִמּוֹ himmôw · H1994 · are, them, those · 12×אִנּוּן ʼinnûwn · H581 · are, them, these · 4×כָּה kâh · H3542 · hitherto · 1×

Also from the root הוּא

עֲדֶן ʻăden · H5728 · still, so far · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2004. hen I. [הֵן] pronoun 3 plural feminine, often in Late Hebrew, in Biblical Hebrew…

H2004. hen
I. [הֵן] pronoun 3 plural feminine, often in Late Hebrew, in Biblical Hebrew only with prefixes, בָּהֵן, etc.: see under הֵמָּה 8d. f

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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