Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H1968
הֵימָן
Hemanhay-mawn'
Heman
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Hêymân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1968is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1968
Heman, the name of at least two Israelites
The King James renders it: Heman.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Heman is rendered "Heman". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in 1 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 4:31He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.
1 Kings 4:31וְהֵימָ֧ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twelve of the word's sixteen uses are in 1 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Heman7
- and Heman5
- to Heman2
- for Heman1
- of Heman1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הֵימָ֣ן2
- לְהֵימָ֗ן2
- הֵימָן֙1
- הֵימָ֥ן1
- הֵימָ֨ן1
- הֵימָ֡ן1
- הֵימָ֖ן1
- וְהֵימָ֧ן1
- וְהֵימָ֛ן1
- וְהֵימָ֣ן1
- וְהֵימָ֤ן1
- וְהֵימָֽן׃1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)7HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)5HC/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)4HR/Npm
1 Kings
one use
He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.
- וְהֵימָ֧ןveheimanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Heman
1 Chronicles
twelve uses
The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara—five in all.
- וְהֵימָ֛ןveheimanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Heman
These are the men who served, together with their sons. From the Kohathites:
- הֵימָן֙heimanproper noun (a name)tagged: Heman
So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; from their brothers the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah;
- הֵימָ֣ןheimanproper noun (a name)tagged: Heman
The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals.
- הֵימָ֥ןheimanproper noun (a name)tagged: Heman
With them were Heman, Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the LORD, for “His loving devotion endures forever.”
- הֵימָ֣ןheimanproper noun (a name)tagged: Heman
Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for the songs of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were stationed at the gate.
- הֵימָ֨ןheimanproper noun (a name)tagged: Heman
Additionally, David and the commanders of the army set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy with the accompaniment of lyres, harps, and cymbals. The following is the list of the men who performed this service:
- וְהֵימָ֣ןveheimanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Heman
From the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.
- לְהֵימָ֑ןleheimanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Heman
- הֵימָ֡ןheimanproper noun (a name)tagged: Heman
All these sons of Heman the king’s seer were given him through the promises of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
- לְהֵימָ֗ןleheimanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Heman
- לְהֵימָ֗ןleheimanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Heman
All these were under the direction of their fathers for the music of the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the direction of the king.
- וְהֵימָֽן׃veheimanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Heman
2 Chronicles
three uses
all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.
- לְהֵימָ֣ןleheimanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Heman
Jehiel and Shimei from the Hemanites; and Shemaiah and Uzziel from the Jeduthunites.
- הֵימָ֖ןheimanproper noun (a name)tagged: Heman
The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer. And the gatekeepers at each gate did not need to leave their position, because their fellow Levites made preparations for them.
- וְהֵימָ֤ןveheimanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Heman
The letters
Gematria 105· 755 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.