Midvash

הִנֵּהhinnêh

lo! behold!

Pronunciation: hin-nay' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2009

Meanings

a. pointing to persons or things (Genesis 12:19; Genesis 18:9; Genesis 16:14)

b. introducing clauses involving predication

(a) behold! (Genesis 1:29; Genesis 17:20; Genesis 27:6)

(b) futuram instans, behold (Exodus 32:34; Exodus 34:10; Isaiah 7:14)

c. וְהִנֵּה ֗֗֗ very frequently in historical style, especially (but not exclusively) after verbs of seeing or discovering, making the narrative graphic and vivid, and enabling the reader to enter into the surprise or satisfaction of the speaker or actor concerned (Genesis 1:31; Genesis 6:12; Genesis 8:13)

d. like II. הֵן (b), nearly = if (rare) (Leviticus 13:5; Leviticus 13:6; Leviticus 13:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 843 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:29 Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.
  • Genesis 1:31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
  • Genesis 6:12 God observed all this corruption in the world, for everyone on earth was corrupt.
  • Genesis 6:17 “Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die.
  • Genesis 8:11 This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.
  • Genesis 8:13 Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began, the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).