Hebrew conj · H3860
לָהֵן
lahenlaw-hane'
therefore
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lâhên
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3860is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3860
popularly for if; hence, therefore
The King James renders it: for them (by mistake for prepositional suffix).
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
lahen is rendered "therefore". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Ruth, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ruth 1:13would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
Ruth 1:13הֲלָהֵ֣ן׀
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Ruth.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- ¿ therefore2
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| לָהֵן | lahen | except | Uses7 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- הֲלָהֵן֙1
- הֲלָהֵ֣ן׀1
The grammar of each form
- question particle + conjunction (“and”)2HTi/C
Ruth
two uses
would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
- הֲלָהֵ֣ן׀halahenquestion particle + conjunction (“and”)tagged: ¿ therefore
- הֲלָהֵן֙halahenquestion particle + conjunction (“and”)tagged: ¿ therefore
The letters
Gematria 85· 735 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 family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.