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# הֵא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1887

**lo** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lo [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1887/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֵא: interj. lo, behold! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1887/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** interj. (Aramaic הָא, Dn 2:43 הֵא (q.v.), ܗܳܐ; Arabic هَا ) lo, behold! Gn 47:23 Ez 16:43.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 47:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.23/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יוֹסֵף֙ אֶל־הָעָ֔ם הֵן֩ קָנִ֨יתִי אֶתְכֶ֥ם הַיּ֛וֹם וְאֶת־אַדְמַתְכֶ֖ם לְפַרְעֹ֑ה הֵֽא־לָכֶ֣ם זֶ֔רַע וּזְרַעְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־הָאֲדָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Joseph to the people here! I.have.bought you this day and (et) land your for Pharaoh here! for you \[is\].seed and you.will.sow (et) the land

*JPS 1917:* Then Joseph said unto the people: 'Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh. Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

[Ezekiel 16:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.43/#tree)

יַ֗עַן אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־זָכַרְתְּ֙ אֶת־יְמֵ֣י נְעוּרַ֔יִךְ וַתִּרְגְּזִי־לִ֖י בְּכָל־אֵ֑לֶּה וְגַם־אֲנִ֨י הֵ֜א דַּרְכֵּ֣ךְ ׀ בְּרֹ֣אשׁ נָתַ֗תִּי נְאֻם֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וְלֹ֤א עָשִׂית֙ אֶת־הַזִּמָּ֔ה עַ֖ל כָּל־תּוֹעֲבֹתָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* because that not you.remembered (et) the.days your.youth(s) your and you.were.enraged to me in all these.\[things\] and also I there! conduct your on.\[the\] head I.will.requite the.utterance Lord of.\[the\] Yahweh and not did.you.do? (et) the licentiousness to all abominations your

*JPS 1917:* Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted Me in all these things; lo, therefore I also will bring thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord GOD; or hast thou not committed this lewdness above all thine abominations?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1887.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1887/): 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).