הנה

Hebrew

Pronoun

הֵנָּה • (héna) f pl

  1. (rare, archaic) Alternative form of הֵן‎ (hen): them; a feminine plural standalone (subject) pronoun.
See also
  • Appendix:Hebrew pronouns

Adverb

הֵנָּה • (héna)

  1. Hither, (to) here, over (to) here.
Synonyms
  • (hither): לכאן‎ (l'khán, “to here”), לפה‎ (l'fó, “to here”)

Etymology 3

Cognate to Arabic إِنَّ‎ (ʾinna, “indeed”).[1][2]

Particle

הִנֵּה • (hiné)

  1. Here is, here’s.
  2. Lo, behold.
    • Genesis 48:1, with translation of the King James Version:
      וַיְהִי אַחֲרֵי הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה וַיֹּאמֶר לְיוֹסֵף הִנֵּה אָבִיךָ חֹלֶה וַיִּקַּח אֶת שְׁנֵי בָנָיו עִמּוֹ אֶת־מְנַשֶּׁה וְאֶת־אֶפְרָיִם׃‎
      Vay'hí akharéi had'varím ha'éle vayómer l'yoséf hiné avíkha kholé vayikákh et sh'néi vanáv imó et-m'nashé v'et-efráyim.
      And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
  3. Used as a copula.
Usage notes
  • Different sources disagree on the part of speech of this word; "preposition" is fairly typical, but does not adequately explain all modern uses.
Inflection
Inflection table
Non-personal-pronoun-including form הִנֵּה‎ (hiné)
Personal-pronoun-
including forms		 Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine Masculine Feminine
First person הִנְנִי‎ (hin'ní), (pausal) הִנֵּנִי‎ (hinéni) הִנְנוּ‎ (hin'nú), הִנֶּנּוּ‎ (hinénu), (pausal) הִנֵּנוּ‎ (hinénu)
Second person הִנְּךָ‎ (hin'khá) הִנָּךְ‎ (hinákh) הִנְּכֶם‎ (hin'khém) הִנְּכֶן‎ (hin'khén)
Third person הִנּוֹ‎ (hinó), הִנֵּהוּ‎ (hinehu) הִנָּהּ‎ (hináh), הִנֶּהָ‎ (hinéha), הִנֵּהִי‎ (hinéhi) הִנָּם‎ (hinám) הִנָּן‎ (hinán)

Verb

הִנָּה • (hiná) (pi'el construction)

  1. defective spelling of הינה‎.

References
  • “הנה” in Abraham Even-Shoshan (אַבְרָהָם אֶבֶן־שֹׁשָן) et al., הַמִּלּוֹן הֶחָדָשׁ‎ (ha-milón he-khadásh, “The New Dictionary”), Kiryat-Sefer Ltd. (קִרְיַת־סֵפֶר בְּע״ם)‎ (1984), →ISBN, volume 1 of 3 (א to כ), →ISBN, pages 276–7.
  1. 2001, Edward Lipiński, Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar, page 482: One of the oldest and most important presentatives is *han, attested in Palaeosyrian and in Old Akkadian en-ma, later umma by assimilation. It is found in Ugaritic (hn), in Old Canaanite (a-nu, a-nu-ú, an-nu, an-nu-ú), in Hebrew (hinnē), in Arabic (ʾinna), In Ge'ez (ʾən-ka); e.g. Arabic ʾinna llāha ʾalā kulli šayʾin qadīrun, "behold, God has power over everything". It should be identified with the West Semitic article han-, but carefully distinguished from the conditional particle hn → ʾn.
  2. 1997, Robert Hetzron, The Semitic Languages, page 201: The [Arabic] particle ʾinna, etymologically cognate to Hebrew hen, hinne: "behold", emphasizes that the speaker's utterance is true.
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