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# הַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1975

**the** — used 7 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

the [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1975/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הַלָּז: pron.comm. this [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1975/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** pron.comm. this, a rare synonym of זֶה or הַזֶּה, this (Arabic اَلَّذِى (also اَلَّذْ), pl. اَلَّذِينَ, who, which (cf. זֶה, which is used also sometimes as rel.), formed from اَلْ the def. art., and the pron. ذَا, זֶה, זוּ, with the insertion of the demonstr. element la, and thus in fact = הַזֶּה: WAG i. § 347, CG p. 177)—ususally with subst. defined by the art., Ju 6:20 הַסֶּלַע הַלָּז this rock, 1 S 14:1 מֵעֵבֶר הַלָּז off this side-across, 17:26 אֶת־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּי הַלָּז, (+ 20:19 𝔊 Th We Dr τὸ ἐργαβ ἐκεῖνο, i.e. (or הַלָּאז) הָאַרְגָּב הַלָּז this mound (or cairn), for האבן האזל) 2 K 23:17; Zc 2:8; with a fem., 2 K 4:25 הַשּׁוּנַמִּית הַלָּז: without a subst. Dn 8:16 לְהַלָּז to this one (= normal לָזֶה). The fuller form is

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech differs, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: this (5); of this (1); this \[one\] (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 8:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.16/#tree)

וָאֶשְׁמַ֥ע קוֹל־אָדָ֖ם בֵּ֣ין אוּלָ֑י וַיִּקְרָא֙ וַיֹּאמַ֔ר גַּבְרִיאֵ֕ל הָבֵ֥ן לְהַלָּ֖ז אֶת־הַמַּרְאֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and I.heard \[the\].voice of.a.person between Ulai and he.called and he.said O.Gabriel explain to this.\[one\] (et) the vision

*JPS 1917:* And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of Ulai, who called, and said: 'Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.'

[Zechariah 2:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.2.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.2.8/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔ורֻ֗ץ דַּבֵּ֛ר אֶל־הַנַּ֥עַר הַלָּ֖ז לֵאמֹ֑ר פְּרָזוֹת֙ תֵּשֵׁ֣ב יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם מֵרֹ֥ב אָדָ֛ם וּבְהֵמָ֖ה בְּתוֹכָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to him run speak to the.young man this (cmp) unwalled.villages it.will.remain Jerusalem from.\[the\] multitude of.person\[s\] and livestock in the.midst of.it

*JPS 1917:* and said unto him: 'Run, speak to this young man, saying: 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1975.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1975/): 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).