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Jeremiah 25:9

“Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

הֵןhên · hane
H2005 · Hebrew
Definition
lo!; also (as expressing surprise) if
Derivation
a primitive particle;
KJV renderings
behold, if, lo, though.
Grammar
  • הִנְ — particle (demonstrative)
  • נִ֣י — suffix (pronominal), 1st person, common, singular
Code HTm/Sp1cs
Usage
Occurs 318 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:22Genesis 4:14Genesis 6:13Genesis 9:9Genesis 11:6

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read הֵן here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.