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Hebrew
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Pronoun
הֵנָּה • (héna) f pl
- (rare, archaic) Alternative form of הֵן (hen): them; a feminine plural standalone (subject) pronoun.
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Further reading
Etymology 2
Compare Arabic هنا (hunā)
Pronunciation
Adverb
הֵנָּה • (héna)
- Hither, (to) here, over (to) here.
Synonyms
- (hither): לְכָאן (l'khán, “to here”), לְפֹה (l'fó, “to here”)
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Cognate to Arabic إِنَّ (ʔinna, “indeed”).
Pronunciation
Particle
הִנֵּה • (hiné)
- Here is, here’s.
- Lo, behold.
Tanach, 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.
- (proscribed) 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
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
Verb
הִנָּה • (hiná) third-singular masculine past (pi'el construction)
- defective spelling of הינה.
References
- ^ Lipiński, Edward (2001) Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 80), 2nd edition, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, 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.
- ^ 1997, Robert Hetzron, The Semitic Languages, page 201: The particle ʾinna, etymologically cognate to Hebrew hen, hinne: "behold", emphasizes that the speaker's utterance is true.