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Hen

HEN

The care of a hen to protect her brood from hawks, etc., illustrates the Savior’s tender care of his people when exposed to the swoop of the Roman eagle, as in all similar perils, Mat 23:37 ; 24:22. The common barn-door fowl is not often mentioned in Scripture, Mar 13:35 ; 14:30; Luk 22:34 ; but at the present day they and their eggs are more used in Syria than any other food not vegetable.

Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Hen

See Fowl

Fuente: Plants Animals Of Bible

Hen

(Heb. Chen, , grace, as often; Sept. translates , Vulg. Hem), the son of Zephaniah, to whom the prophet was sent with a symbolical crown (Zec 6:14); probably a figurative name for JOSIAH (Zec 6:10).

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Hen (2)

(, a bird, especially the domestic fowl, Mat 23:37; Luk 13:34). We have no evidence that the ancient Hebrews were accustomed to the breeding of poultry, but that the later Jews were acquainted with it (Chald. ) is evident from 2Es 1:30; Mat 23:37; Luk 13:34; Luk 22:60-61. Michaelis is of opinion that the incubation of the common hen is referred to in Jer 17:11. The original country of the common poultry fowl is India, where it is called the jungle bird. SEE COCK.

The metaphor used in the passages of the Gospels where the term hen occurs has always been admired for its beauty. When the hen sees a bird of prey coming, she makes a noise to assemble her chickens, that she may cover them with her wings from the danger. The Roman army, as an eagle, was about to fall upon the Jews; our Lord-expresses a desire to guard them from threatened calamities, but they disregarded his invitations and warnings, and fell a prey to their adversaries. Thee word there employed is used in the same specific sense in classical Greek (Aristoph. Av. 102, Vesp. 811). That a bird so intimately connected with the household, and so common in Palestine, as we know from Rabbinical sources (Otho, Lex. Rabb. p. 256), should receive such slight notice, is certainly singular (see Reland, De yalli cantu Hier. audito, Rotterd. 1709; Detharding, id. Rost. 1752); it is almost equally singular that it is nowhere represented in the paintings of ancient Egypt (Wilkinson, 1, 234). SEE FOWL.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Hen (3)

a name for spirits among the Lao-Tseu, in China. They are the souls of those who are neither good nor evil. They are generally friendly to man, and though invisible, they perform many good offices for him. The emperor puts his country under their protection, and he deposes or degrades them if they neglect their duty.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Hen

common in later times among the Jews in Palestine (Matt. 23:37; Luke 13:34). It is noticeable that this familiar bird is only mentioned in these passages in connection with our Lord’s lamentation over the impenitence of Jerusalem.

Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Hen (1)

Zec 6:14 (“favor”), the same person as Josiah (“God founds or supports”), Zec 6:10.

Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary

Hen (2)

Mat 23:37; Luk 13:34. As “the eagle stirring up her nest, fluttering over her young, spreading abroad her wings, taking, bearing them on her wings,” represents the Old Testament aspect of Jehovah in relation to Israel under the law (Deu 32:11), so the “hen,” Christ the lowly loving Son of God gathering God’s children under His overshadowing wing, in the gospel (Rth 2:12; Psa 17:8; Psa 91:4). (See EAGLE.) So Jehovah “passed over”, or sprang forward to overshadow Israel from the destroying angel (Exo 12:13). (See PASSOVER; EXODUS.)

Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary

Hen

HEN.See Animals, p. 64a.

Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels

Hen

HEN.In Zec 6:14 Hen the son of Zephaniah is mentioned amongst those whose memory was to be perpetuated by the crowns laid up in the Temple (so AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , RV [Note: Revised Version.] ). Some would substitute for Hen the name Joshua [Josiah] found in Zec 6:10.

Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible

Hen (1)

hen (, hen, favor). In Zec 6:14, English Versions of the Bible reads, And the crowns shall be to Helem … and to Hen the son of Zephaniah. But as this person is called Josiah in Zec 6:10, the Revised Version, margin and for the kindness of the son of Zephaniah is probably right, but the text is uncertain. See JOSIAH.

Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Hen (2)

(, ornis): Mentioned in the accounts of the different disciples in describing the work of Jesus (Mat 23:37; Luk 13:34).

Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Hen

Son of Zephaniah. Zec 6:14. By comparing verse 14 with verse 10 Hen (really Chen) appears to be another name of Josiah. Some treat the word Hen not as a proper name, and translate ‘for the favour of the son of Zephaniah.’

In Mat 23:37; Luk 13:34 the domestic fowl is alluded to, and her well-known care for her chickens, in illustration of how the Lord would have gathered the Jews under His almighty and loving protection; but, alas, they would not!

Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary

Hen

Hen. (rest).

1. Probably, a son of Zephaniah, and apparently, the same who is called Josiah, in Zec 6:10.

2. The hen is nowhere noticed in the Bible except in Mat 23:37; Luk 13:34. That a bird so common in Palestine should receive such slight notice is certainly peculiar.

Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary

HEN

Mat 23:37; Luk 13:34

Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

Hen

“a bird,” is used, in the NT, only of a “hen,” Mat 23:27; Luk 13:34.

Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Hen

, 2 Esdras 50:30; Mat 23:37; Luk 13:34. In these last two passages our Saviour exclaims, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! The metaphor here used is a very beautiful one. When the hen sees a bird of prey coming, she makes a noise to assemble her chickens, that she may cover them with her wings from the danger. The Roman eagle was about to fall upon the Jewish state; our Lord invited them to himself in order to guard them from threatened calamities: they disregarded his invitations and warnings, and fell a prey to their adversaries. The affection of a hen to her brood is so strong as to have become proverbial. There is a beautiful Greek epigram in the Anthologia, which affords a very fine illustration of the affection of this bird in another view. It has been thus translated:

Beneath her fostering wing the hen defends Her darling offspring, while the snow descends; And through the winter’s day unmoved defies The chilling fleeces and inclement skies;

Till vanquish’d by the cold and piercing blast, True to her charge she perishes at last.

Plutarch, in his book De Philostorgia, represents this parental attachment and care in a very pleasing manner: Do we not daily observe with what care the hen protects her chickens; giving some shelter under her wings, supporting others upon her back, calling them around her, and picking out their food; and if any animal approaches that terrifies them, driving it away with a courage and strength truly wonderful?

Fuente: Biblical and Theological Dictionary

Hen

Mat 23:37 (a) This is a type of the tender care and protection which the Lord JESUS offered Israel. CHRIST Himself is compared to the mother hen and the chickens represent the Israelites and the Christians of today.

Luk 13:34 (a) In His early ministry, the Lord JESUS compared Himself to a mother hen calling her brood (the whole nation of Israel) to come to Him and trust Him. Quite sometime later in His ministry, He repeats the same verse in Mat 23:37, but He changed one word. Instead of calling the “brood,” He called the “chickens” – the individual persons of Israel. The events which transpired between these two passages reveal that Israel as a nation had rejected CHRIST, therefore at the end of His journey, He made His appeal for individuals rather than for the whole nation.

Fuente: Wilson’s Dictionary of Bible Types