Hebrew noun (feminine) · H344
אַיָּה
ayahah-yaw'
falcon
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼayâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H344is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H344
the screamer, i.e. a hawk
The King James renders it: kite, vulture.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ayah is rendered "falcon". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 11:14the kite, any kind of falcon,
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
the kite, any kind of falcon,
Leviticus 11:14הָאַיָּ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the hawk2
- a hawk1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אַיָּֽה׃1
- הָאַיָּ֖ה1
- הָ֣אַיָּ֔ה1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
Leviticus
one use
the kite, any kind of falcon,
- הָאַיָּ֖הhaaiyahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the hawk
Deuteronomy
one use
the red kite, the falcon, any kind of kite,
- הָ֣אַיָּ֔הhaaiyahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the hawk
Job
one use
No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.
- אַיָּֽה׃ʾaiyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a hawk
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.