Hen

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grace; quiet; rest
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


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.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


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.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


ορνις, 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?
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.


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.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.


Hen
(Heb. Chen, חֵן, grace, as often; Sept. translates χάρις, 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).

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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