Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H345
אַיָּה
Ayahah-yaw'
Aiah
6 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 H345is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H345
Ajah, the name of two Israelites
The King James renders it: Aiah, Ajah.
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 "Aiah". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 36:24These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
Genesis 36:24וְאַיָּ֣ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's six uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Aiah5
- and Aiah1
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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- אַיָּ֑ה1
- אַיָּה֙1
- אַיָּ֨ה1
- אַיָּ֖ה1
- אַיָּ֥ה1
- וְאַיָּ֣ה1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)5HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm
Genesis
one use
These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
- וְאַיָּ֣הveaiyahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Aiah
2 Samuel
four uses
Meanwhile, Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”
- אַיָּ֑הʾaiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Aiah
But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
- אַיָּה֙ʾaiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Aiah
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
- אַיָּ֨הʾaiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Aiah
When David was told what Saul’s concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, had done,
- אַיָּ֖הʾaiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Aiah
1 Chronicles
one use
The sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.
- אַיָּ֥הʾaiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Aiah
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.