The Hebrew Language Origins of Englis
Hebrew "Va-Heni"
The expression "Va-Heni" occurs more than 350 times in Hebrew Scriptures.
It means approximately "And behold".
"Va" means "and" or "as" or 'then" while "heni" means "behold", or "here is", or "there were".
More precisely "Va-Heni" Â means "when" just like the English word.
 "Va-Heni" begins with the letter "vav".
This in Biblical times would probably have been pronounced as a "w" just like it still is amongst Yemenite Jews.
We therefore have "Wa-Heni" meaning "when".
The "i" at the end takes a vowel sound and could easily have been dropped.
We thus get "Wa-hen" i.e. "when"!-
We will notice that the English "when" is loser to the Hebrew "wa-hen" than the proposed Germanic source given above. This happens all the time.Â