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 →

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 · 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 · 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

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Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: 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).

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