Hen
חֵןStrong’s H2581chen
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chen is the Hebrew word usually translated “hen”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Zec.6.10
How it's translated
- and to hen 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Zechariah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֵן chen · Hen
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Zec.6.10; son of: Zephaniah (H6846I); also called Hen at Zec.6.14; Another name of yo.shiy.yah (יֹאשִׁיָּ֫הוּ "Josiah" H2977H) § Hen = "favour" a contemporary of Zerubbabel
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hen” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEN, noun
The female of any kind of fowl; but it is particularly applied to the female of the domestic fowl of the gallinaceous kind, or as sometimes called, the barn-door fowl.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.