hen · they (feminine)

What it means

hen (הֵן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “they (feminine)”.

Those.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Points to several women or things already mentioned.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• which ×5
• them ×4
• than they ×2
• likewise ×1
• whom ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×3

• Genesis 19:29

  So it was that when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, Elohim remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overturning, when he overturned the cities in which Lot had lived.

• Genesis 30:26

  Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you know my service with which I have served you.”

• Exodus 25:29

  You shall make its plates, its spoons, its jars, and its bowls, with which drink offerings are poured; of pure gold you shall make them.

• Exodus 37:16

  And he made the utensils that were on the table, its plates and its spoons and its bowls and the jars with which libations are poured, of pure gold.

• Leviticus 10:1

  The sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, each took his censer, put fire in them, laid incense on it, and presented before YHWH strange fire that he had not commanded them.

• Leviticus 11:21

  But these you may eat of all the winged insects that walk on all fours: those that have jointed legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth.

• Numbers 16:7

  and put fire in them and lay incense on them before YHWH tomorrow, and the man whom YHWH chooses, he shall be the holy one. Enough of you, sons of Levi!”

• Jeremiah 4:29

  At the noise of horseman and archer every city flees; they go into the thickets and climb up among the rocks; every city is forsaken, and no man lives in them.

• Jeremiah 48:9

  Give wings to Moab, for flying she will go out; and her cities will become a horror, with no one dwelling in them.

• Jeremiah 51:43

  Her cities have become a horror, a dry land and a steppe, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.

• Ezekiel 16:47

  And not in their ways did you walk, nor according to their abominations did you do as if that were a very little thing; but you acted more corruptly than they in all your ways.

• Ezekiel 16:52

  You also, bear your disgrace, you who arbitrated for your sisters; through your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more righteous than you. So you also, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, in making your sisters appear righteous.

• Ezekiel 18:14

  And look, if he fathers a son who sees all the sins of his father that he has done, and sees, and does not do likewise: