Jastrow: הֵי II

הֵי II 1) interj. (b. h. interj. (b. h. הִא) behold, here is. Y. Succ. V, beg. 55ᵃ הי לך מצה here is unleavened bread for thee. Combined הֵילָךְ. Ib.—B. Mets. 4ᵃ I owe thee only fifty Zuz, וה׳ and here they are.—Hence (law) helakh, the instantaneous delivery of the amount confessed, while the creditor claims a larger amount. Ib. ה׳ פטור וכ׳ if one delivers one portion of the claim (says, ‘here it is’), he is exempt from taking an oath (as one who confesses a part of a claimed debt otherwise must do); a. fr. —2) (interrog.) which? Ḥull. 14ᵃ הי ר׳ יהודה which R. Judah, i.e. to which opinion of R. J. do you allude? Sabb. 9ᵇ הי סמוך וכ׳ which ‘near Minḥah’ is meant in the Mishnah?—Ḥull. 49ᵇ הי מינייהו which of them (eventually closes up a hole in the entrails); a. fr. —3) where? Ber. 31ᵃ הי תורה וכ׳ where is the law, and where the good deeds to protect us?—Targ. Y. Deut. V, 23, v. דֵּן.—הי דינו, v. הַיְידְּנוּ. —4) as, like. Targ. Y. I Deut. XXXII, 41 הֵיא ברק (not הִיא) as lightning. Mostly הי כ־; comb. היכ־. Targ. Y. Lev. XXV, 40, v. הֵיךְ.