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Word Summary
ay: where?
Original Word: אַי
Transliteration: ay
Phonetic Spelling: (ah'ee)
Part of Speech: interrogative adverb
Short Definition: where?
Meaning: where?, how?
Strong's Concordance
how, what, whence, where, whether, which way

Perhaps from 'aiyn; where? Hence how? -- how, what, whence, where, whether, which (way).

see HEBREW 'aiyn

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H335. ay

[אַי‎] (, in Syriac in compounds as how ? WSG 120-2; compare Assyrian aiu, who? what?).

1. interrogative adverb where?

a. so with suffix אַיֶּ֫כָּה‎ [a verbal form, see Sta§ 355 b. 3] Genesis 3:9; אַיּוֺ‎ Exodus 2:20, poetry where is he? = he is nowhere Job 14:10; 20:7 (Jeremiah 37:19 read Qr אַיֵּה‎); אַיָּם‎ Nahum 3:17 (in indirect question) and the place thereof is not known, אַיָּם‎ where they are. Idiomatically, with the suffix anticipating the noun to which it refers (Ew§ 309 c, compare DrSm. i. 21, 14) 2 Kings 19:13 מֶלֶחחֲֿמָת אַיּוֺ‎ where is he, the king of Hamath? ("" Isaiah 37:13 אַיֵּה‎) 19:12; Micah 7:10. When used alone, or with other adverbs (see below), it is contracted to אֵי‎ Genesis 4:9; Deuteronomy 32:37; 1 Samuel 26:16; Proverbs 31:4 Qr. (The more usual form is אַיֵּה‎.)

b. strengthened by the enclitic זֶה‎ (see זֶה‎, 4 אֵיזֶֿה‎15 where, then ? (never of a person, except Esther 7:5 (late), & only once 1 Kings 22:24 [but see 2 Chronicles 18:23] with a verb) Isaiah 50:1; 66:1 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 6:16, in indirect question 1 Samuel 9:18; in the phrase ֗֗֗ הַדֶּרֶח אֵיזֶֿה‎ where is the way (that) . . . ? 1 Kings 13:12; 2 Kings 3:8; 2 Chronicles 18:23; Job 38:19 a. 24.

2 prefixed to other adverbs or pron., אֵי‎ imparts to them an interrogative force: thus

a. אֵיזֶֿה‎ which (of two or more)? only Ecclesiastes 2:3; 11:6 (late), in indirect question

b. אֵימִֿזֶּה‎ whence ? (מִזֶּה‎ = hence; see below זֶה‎) Genesis 16:8 בָאתְ אֵימִֿזֶּה‎ 1 Samuel 30:13; 2 Samuel 1:3, 13; Job 2:2; in indirect question Judges 13:6; 1 Samuel 25:11; with substantive annexed 2 Samuel 15:2 אַתָּה עִיר אֵימִֿזֶּה‎ literally whence, as regards city, art thou ? Jonah 1:8.

c. אֵילָֿזֹאת‎ Jeremiah 5:7 upon what ground ? (ᵑ9‎ super quo? how? With other adverbs, אֵי‎ coalesces into one word, see אֵיפֹה אֵיכָכָה, אֵיכָה,‎.





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