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# הָא

Biblical Aramaic

**lo!** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lo! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b8_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הָא: demonstr. part. lo! behold! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b8_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** demonstr. part. lo! behold! (BH הֵא (twice); Egyptian Aramaic and Têma הא (Cooke 195, 198); 𝔗 הָא; Syriac ܗܳܐ; Mand. הא (NöM 81); Arabic هَا: in Aramaic also often prefixed to pr. 3 ps. for greater definiteness, as 𝔗 הָהוּא, ܗܰܘ (for hā-hū), v. NöM 89 f. WCG 106 f.), Dn 3:25.

### Jastrow 1903

הָא II: Oh! korban ha-korban behold as if as so is it that? where? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b8_5d0/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (v. preced.) an interjection, (cmp. הָ־) Oh! Targ. Jer. IV, 30 (not והא). —Ned. II, 2 (15ᵇ) הא קרבן שאוכל לך (Mish. a. Y. ed. קרבן) Oh, the sacrifice, that I will (not) eat this which belongs to thee!. Ib. 16ᵃ לא שני ליה קרבן … הקרבן draws no distinction between korban and ha-korban (v. marginal note to Rashi a. l.). Ib. II, 2 הא שבועה שאוכל לך (Mish. a. Y. ed. שבועה) Oh, an oath that &c. Ib. 16ᵃ מכלל דהא שבועה שאוכל וכ׳ we infer from this that ‘Oh, an oath that I will eat’ means that I will not eat. behold(h. . Dan. III, 25.—Targ. Gen. III, 22. Ib. XX, 15; a. fr.—Dan. II, 43 הֵא־כְדִי as if.—Targ. Ps. CXXIII, 2 הָא כמא as, … הא כדין Ms. (ed. הֵכְדֵין) so introducing a question, is it that? Targ. Job XV, 7; a. e.—Ib. XXXVIII, 19 הא דין Ms. (ed. אֵידֵין) where?

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (15 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: look! (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 3:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.25/#tree)

עָנֵ֣ה וְאָמַ֗ר הָֽא־אֲנָ֨ה חָזֵ֜ה גֻּבְרִ֣ין אַרְבְּעָ֗ה שְׁרַ֙יִן֙ מַהְלְכִ֣ין בְּגֽוֹא־נוּרָ֔א וַחֲבָ֖ל לָא־אִיתַ֣י בְּה֑וֹן וְרֵוֵהּ֙ דִּ֣י רְֽבִיעָאָ֔ה דָּמֵ֖ה לְבַר־אֱלָהִֽין׃ס

*Word for word:* \[he.was\].replying and \[he.was\].saying look! I \[am\].seeing men four loosed walking in the.midst of the.fire and hurt not there \[is\].on them and appearance his (diy).of the fourth \[is\].like (et).a son of.\[the\].gods

*JPS 1917:* He answered and said: 'Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d4_5b8_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b8_5d0/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).