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# הִיא

Biblical Aramaic

**behold like** — used 7 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

behold like [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b4_5d9_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הוּא: pron. of he, she, it [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b4_5d9_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** m. הִיא 7 f. pron. of 3 s. he, she, it (= BH הוּא, הִיא; Zinj. and Palm. (once) הא, Palm. (usually) Nab. Egyptian Aramaic הו, f. הי, Lzb257, S-CPap. A 1, 12 +; A 4, C 9 +. The pl. is אִנּוּן, q.v.);—he, she, it, Dn 2:21 וְהוּא מְהַשְׁנֵא … and he will change, etc., v 22, 44; 6:5; 7:7, 24 Ezr 5:8; Dn 2:32 הוּא צַלְמָא that image (nom. pend.); 4:19 אַנְתָּה הוּא thou art it. Resuming the subj. with emph. (BH 2 b) 2:47; 6:17; resuming the subj. in predication (ib. 3 b) 2:20 חָכְמְתָא וּגְבוּרְתָּא דִּי־לֵהּ הִיא it is his, v 28. Anticipating the subj. (ib. 4 a) 2:9 הֲדָא הִיא דָֽתְכוֹן; with a pron. (ib. 4 b) 2:38 אַנְתְּה הוּא … thou art the head of gold 5:13; 3:15 מַן הוּא אֱלָהּ … who is the good …? (so pl. אִנּוּן Ezr 5:4); 4:27 הֲלָא דָא הִיא … (ib. 4 b γ); 6:27 דִּי הוּא … who is … (ib. 2 c), Ezr 6:15 (so דִּי אִנּוּן … Dn 7:17). \[cf. in 𝔗 Ex 14:25; 15:11 2 S 20:19; 24:17 ψ 43:2; 63:4; 66:3 +.\] Affirming existence (BH 6 b) Dn 4:21. cf. K§ 87, 3. הוּבַד v. \[אֲבַד\].

### Jastrow 1903

הִיא

**The whole Jastrow entry:** she, v. הוּא

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (15 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it (7).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.21/#tree)

דְּנָ֥ה פִשְׁרָ֖א מַלְכָּ֑א וּגְזֵרַ֤ת עִלָּאָה֙ הִ֔יא דִּ֥י מְטָ֖ת עַל־מָרִ֥י מַלְכָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the interpretation O king and.\[is\] the.decree of the.Most.High it which it.has.reached to lord my the king

*JPS 1917:* this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king,

[Ezra 6:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.15/#tree)

וְשֵׁיצִיא֙ בַּיְתָ֣ה דְנָ֔ה עַ֛ד י֥וֹם תְּלָתָ֖ה לִירַ֣ח אֲדָ֑ר דִּי־הִ֣יא שְׁנַת־שֵׁ֔ת לְמַלְכ֖וּת דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was.finished the house this until day three of the.month of.Adar which it \[was\].year six of the.reign of.Darius the king

*JPS 1917:* And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 39 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 177 times there, in the forms הִיא (153); וְהִיא (19); דְהִיא (3); דְּהִיא (1); דְהִּיא (1).

[Genesis 24:57](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.57/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.57/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וַאֲמַרוּ נִקְרֵי לְעוּלֶמְתָּא וְנִשְׁמָע מַה דְּהִיא אָמְרָה

וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ נִקְרָ֣א לַֽנַּעֲרָ֑ וְנִשְׁאֲלָ֖ה אֶת־פִּֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and they.said let.us.summon (to).the young woman and let.us.ask (et) mouth her

*JPS 1917:* And they said: 'We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.'

[Leviticus 27:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.4/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וְאִם נְקוּבְתָא הִיא וִיהֵי פֻרְסָנֵהּ תְּלָתִין סִלְעִין

וְאִם־נְקֵבָ֖ה הִ֑וא וְהָיָ֥ה עֶרְכְּךָ֖ שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים שָֽׁקֶל׃

*Word for word:* and if \[is\].female she and it.will.be valuation your thirty shekel\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d4_5b4_5d9_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1492/lemma_3a_5d4_5b4_5d9_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).