Hebrew adv · H346
אַיֵּה
ayehah-yay'
where?
45 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼayêh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H346is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 14 of 39Old Testament books
- 25spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H346
where?
The King James renders it: where.
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
ayeh is rendered "where?". It stands 45 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 18:9“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.
The first use
“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.
Genesis 18:9אַיֵּ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- where37
- and where8
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.
The words it stands beside
All 45, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
25 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
- אַיֵּ֖ה6
- אַיֵּ֥ה5
- אַיֵּ֣ה4
- אַיֵּ֤ה3
- אַיֵּ֧ה2
- אַיֵּ֨ה2
- אַיֵּ֗ה2
- אַיֵּ֛ה2
- אַיֵּה־2
- וְאַיֵּ֖ה2
- אַיֵּ֪ה1
- אַיֵּ֕ה1
and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- question particle37HTi
- conjunction (“and”) + question particle8HC/Ti
Genesis
four uses
“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.
- אַיֵּ֖הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
- אַיֵּ֧הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
- וְאַיֵּ֥הveaiyehconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and where
He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
- אַיֵּ֧הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Judges
two uses
“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
- וְאַיֵּ֣הveaiyehconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and where
“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”
- אַיֵּ֨הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
2 Samuel
two uses
“Where is your master’s grandson?” asked the king. And Ziba answered, “Indeed, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he has said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore to me the kingdom of my grandfather.’”
- וְאַיֵּ֖הveaiyehconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and where
When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.
- אַיֵּ֗הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
2 Kings
three uses
Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.
- אַיֵּ֕הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
- אַיֵּה֩ʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
- אַיֵּ֛הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Job
five uses
He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
- אַיֵּ֑הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- וְ֭אַיֵּהveaiyehconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and where
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
- אַיֵּ֥הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
- וְ֝אַיֵּ֗הveaiyehconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and where
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
- אַ֭יֵּהʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Psalms
five uses
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- אַיֵּ֥הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- אַיֵּ֥הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
- אַיֵּ֪הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?
- אַיֵּ֤ה׀ʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
- אַיֵּה־ʾaiyeh-question particletagged: where
Isaiah
ten uses
Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”
- אַיֵּ֤הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
- אַיֵּ֣הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
- אַיֵּ֖הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
- אַיֵּ֞הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
- אַיֵּ֖הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
- אַיֵּ֤הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
- וְאַיֵּ֖הveaiyehconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and where
Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
- אַיֵּ֣ה׀ʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
- אַיֵּ֛הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
- אַיֵּ֤הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Jeremiah
six uses
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
- אַיֵּ֣הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
- אַיֵּ֣הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
- וְאַיֵּ֤הveaiyehconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and where
Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?
- אַיֵּ֗הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”
- אַיֵּ֥הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?
- וְאַיֵּה֙veaiyovconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and where
Lamentations
one use
They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
- אַיֵּ֖הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Ezekiel
one use
Surely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?’
- אַיֵּ֥הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Joel
one use
Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- אַיֵּ֖הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Nahum
one use
Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?
- אַיֵּה֙ʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Zechariah
one use
Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?
- אַיֵּה־ʾaiyeh-question particletagged: where
Malachi
three uses
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
- אַיֵּ֣הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
- אַיֵּ֨הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
- אַיֵּ֖הʾaiyehquestion particletagged: where
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
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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.