STRONGS NUMBER H349

H349. ek

אֵיךְ‎₅₉ (Aramaic אֵיךְ‎, [pronounced âch])

adverb 1. interrogative How? Genesis 26:9; 2 Samuel 1:5, 14; 1 Kings 12:6; Isaiah 20:6 and elsewhere; often with imperfect (especially in 1 person) in an expostulation Genesis 39:9; 44:8, 34; Joshua 9:7; 2 Samuel 2:22; 12:18; Psalm 137:4; Isaiah 48:11 for howshould it be profaned ? תאמר(וׅ איך‎ how canst or dost thou (do you) say . . . ? Judges 16:15; Isaiah 19:11; Jeremiah 2:23 (compare 8:8 אֵיכָה‎) 48:14; Psalm 11:1; in an indirect sentence 2 Kings 17:28; Jeremiah 36:17; Ruth 3:18.

2. as an exclamation How! whether of lamentation 2 Samuel 1:19; Jeremiah 2:21; 9:18; Micah 2:4; or of satisfaction Isaiah 14:4, 12; Jeremiah 48:39; 51:41; Obadiah 5 and elsewhere; with intensive force = how gladly! 3:19, how terribly! 9:6 (but others render here 'for how [else] should I do'? etc.) **Hosea 11:8 according to Hi Ke We Marti and others.

אֵיכָה‎ (from אַי‎ and כָּה‎ = כֹּה‎; compare Assyrian ekiam)

adverb 1. interrogative In what manner? τίνι τρόπῳ; (rather more definite than אֵיח‎ = πῶς); Deuteronomy 1:12; 7:17; 12:30; 18:21; 32:30; Judges 20:3 (indirect sentence) 2 Kings 6:15; Jeremiah 8:8; Psalm 73:11.

2 exclamation How! (slightly more emphatic than אֵיח‎) Isaiah 1:21; Jeremiah 48:17; Lamentations 1:1; 2:1; 4:1-2,.

3 Where? (properly north-Israel; compare Aramaic אֵיכָא‎, where ? compare Dr^{Intr. 178, 421}) only 2 Kings 6:13 Kt Song of Solomon 1:7 (twice in verse), — each time in an indirect sentence.

אֵיכָ֫כָה‎ (Canticles) ֵאיכָכָ֫ה‎ (Esther) (from אַי‎ & כָּ֫כָה‎ thus)

How? only Song of Solomon 5:3 (twice in verse); Esther 8:6 (twice in verse).