Hen is a forceful presentative particle that calls the listener to attention: 'Look! See! Behold!' Less widely used than its near-synonym hinneh, hen tends to appear in prose where it introduces a known fact upon which a conclusion or action must be based (Gen 3:22, 'Behold, the man has become like one of us'). It is especially common in the Pentateuch and in the speeches of Job, where it has a more argumentative, logical flavor than hinneh. Spanish 'he aqui,' French 'voici,' and German 'siehe' all serve as presentative markers, though none quite captures hen's particular nuance of 'given this fact, therefore...' In a single rare instance (Jer 2:10), hen functions as a conditional particle meaning 'whether.'