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הָא

«הָא» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: lo! — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

Used: 1 times · Key: lemma:הָא · BDB: הָא

Glosses

look! (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

lo! tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

demonstr. part. lo! behold! tree →

The whole BDB entry

demonstr. part. lo! behold! (BH הֵא (twice); Egyptian Aramaic and Têma הא (Cooke 195, 198); 𝔗 הָא; Syriac ܗܳܐ; Mand. הא (NöM 81); Arabic هَا: in Aramaic also often prefixed to pr. 3 ps. for greater definiteness, as 𝔗 הָהוּא, ܗܰܘ (for hā-hū), v. NöM 89 f. WCG 106 f.), Dn 3:25.

Jastrow 1903

הָא II: Oh! korban ha-korban behold as if as so is it that? where? tree →

The whole Jastrow entry

(v. preced.) an interjection, (cmp. הָ־) Oh! Targ. Jer. IV, 30 (not והא). —Ned. II, 2 (15ᵇ) הא קרבן שאוכל לך (Mish. a. Y. ed. קרבן) Oh, the sacrifice, that I will (not) eat this which belongs to thee!. Ib. 16ᵃ לא שני ליה קרבן … הקרבן draws no distinction between korban and ha-korban (v. marginal note to Rashi a. l.). Ib. II, 2 הא שבועה שאוכל לך (Mish. a. Y. ed. שבועה) Oh, an oath that &c. Ib. 16ᵃ מכלל דהא שבועה שאוכל וכ׳ we infer from this that ‘Oh, an oath that I will eat’ means that I will not eat. behold(h. . Dan. III, 25.—Targ. Gen. III, 22. Ib. XX, 15; a. fr.—Dan. II, 43 הֵא־כְדִי as if.—Targ. Ps. CXXIII, 2 הָא כמא as, … הא כדין Ms. (ed. הֵכְדֵין) so introducing a question, is it that? Targ. Job XV, 7; a. e.—Ib. XXXVIII, 19 הא דין Ms. (ed. אֵידֵין) where?

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (15 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «הָא» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Daniel 3:25

עָנֵ֣ה וְאָמַ֗ר הָֽא־אֲנָ֨ה חָזֵ֜ה גֻּבְרִ֣ין אַרְבְּעָ֗ה שְׁרַ֙יִן֙ מַהְלְכִ֣ין בְּגֽוֹא־נוּרָ֔א וַחֲבָ֖ל לָא־אִיתַ֣י בְּה֑וֹן וְרֵוֵהּ֙ דִּ֣י רְֽבִיעָאָ֔ה דָּמֵ֖ה לְבַר־אֱלָהִֽין׃ס

Word for word: [he.was].replying and [he.was].saying look! I [am].seeing men four loosed walking in the.midst of the.fire and hurt not there [is].on them and appearance his (diy).of the fourth [is].like (et).a son of.[the].gods

JPS 1917: He answered and said: 'Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.'

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