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# ה

Biblical Hebrew

**interrogative particle** — used 1516 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

interrogative particle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/lemma_3a_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** Hē, fifth letter; = numeral 5 in postB. Heb.; no evidence of this usage in OT times.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: (464); (to) (141); to \[the\] (84).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 4:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.14/#tree)

אֲחִֽינָדָ֥ב בֶּן־עִדֹּ֖א מַחֲנָֽיְמָה׃

*Word for word:* Ahinadab the.son of.Iddo (to) Mahanaim

*JPS 1917:* Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

[Isaiah 23:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.6/#tree)

עִבְר֖וּ תַּרְשִׁ֑ישָׁה הֵילִ֖ילוּ יֹ֥שְׁבֵי אִֽי׃

*Word for word:* pass.over to Tarshish wail O.inhabitants of.\[the\].coastland

*JPS 1917:* Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the coast-land.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/lemma_3a_5d4/): 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).