הֶן hen

Hebrew word for “them” · Strong’s H9039 · used 54 times in 50 verses

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Meaning

Personal object pronoun - suffix for propositions and verbs without an object: 3rd person feminine plural

How it is translated

Glosses given for hen in context, with how often each is used:

• them 43
• like 3
• belonged to 3
• more than 3
• like those 2

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 42 (4), Ezekiel 16 (3), Genesis 19 (2), Genesis 30 (2), Isaiah 34 (2), Jeremiah 5 (2), Ezekiel 1 (2), Genesis 26 (1), Genesis 31 (1), Genesis 41 (1)

Forms

• בהן 18
• להן 14
• מהנה 7
• להנה 4
• בהנה 3
• כהנה 2
• וכהנה 2
• מהן 2
• כהן 1
• ולהנה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with hen more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עִיר ir “city” 10
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 6
• אֶחָד echad “one” 6
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 6
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 6
• רָאָה raah “to see” 6
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 5
• מְנַקִּיָּה menaqqiyyah “bowl” 2
• קַשְׂוָה qasah “jug” 2
• אָחוֹת achot “sister” 3
• תּוֹעֵבַה toevah “abomination” 3
• תִּיכוֹן tikhon “middle” 2

Key verses

The verses using hen that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 19:29 — And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew…
• Leviticus 4:2 — Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not…
• Leviticus 10:1 — And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the…
• Deuteronomy 28:52 — And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege…
• 2 Chronicles 18:16 — Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return…
• Isaiah 34:16 — Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath…
• Jeremiah 5:6 — Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth…
• Jeremiah 5:17 — And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat…
• Ezekiel 16:47 — Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in…
• Ezekiel 16:52 — Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than…
• Ezekiel 18:14 — Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
• Ezekiel 34:23 — And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.