Brown-Driver-Briggs
הָא demonstrative particle lo! behold! (Biblical Hebrew
הֵא (twice); Egyptian Aramaic and Têma
הא (Cooke
193, 198);
ᵑ7 הָא; Syriac
; Mandean
הא (Nö
M 81); Arabic
in Aramaic also often prefixed to pronoun 3 person for greater definiteness, as
ᵑ7 הָהוּא,
(for
h¹-h¥), see Nö
M 89 f. W
CG 106 f.),
Daniel 3:25.
הֵא demonstrative particle, prefixed idiomatically to כְּ for greater definiteness, literally behold like (Biblical Hebrew הֵא, see הָא above), only in הֵאכְּֿ דִי Daniel 2:43 הֵאכְּֿ דִי פַרְזְלָא לָא מִתְעָרַב like as iron doth not mingle with clay (compare
a. ᵑ7Onk הָא כְמַיָּא Genesis 49:4, so ᵑ7Jon ׳הא כ Isaiah 5:28; Isaiah 9:4 + often; ᵑ7Jer ׳הֵי כ Genesis 26:4,18,22 + often; הֵיח Psalm 2:9; Psalm 5:10; Psalm 5:13 +, also pleonastic ׳הֵיח כְּ Psalm 22:14; Psalm 22:15; Psalm 22:17 #NAME?
b. Palmyrene הֵיח as (Lzb259), as היך בנמוסא as (is) in the law (Cooke321; so ᵑ7Jer Psalm 2:9, etc.), הֵיח דִּי conjecture (like Daniel הֵא כְּ דִי: = Hebrew כַּאֲשֶׁר), as היך די גבא like as he levied, CookeTariff ii. b 12. 18, c 14. 17. 21. 26 [ᵑ7Onk Jon for כַּאֲשֶׁר have ׳כְּמָא דְ, ᵑ7Jer ׳הֵיכְמָא דְ, ᵑ6. ]. It is dubious whether הֵא כְּ דִי belongs to a (notice especially ᵑ7Jon) or b: SchulthZAW 1902, 164 f. to
b. reading הֵאח דִּי (but א rare and late: D (2) § 45. 1); NesOLtz. 1892, 488 from הֵיח (see Biblical Hebrew) how ?).