Hebrew intg · H349
אֵיךְ
ekake
how?; how?; how?
82 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼêyk
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H349is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 25 of 39Old Testament books
- 33spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H349
how? or how!; also where
The King James renders it: how, what.
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
ek is rendered "how?; how?; how?". It stands 82 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-five books.
- Nineteen of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "how?".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 26:9Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
- The Greek text spells it thirty-three different ways.
The first use
Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
Genesis 26:9וְאֵ֥יךְ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twenty-five of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries three meanings: how?, and how?, and how?.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| how?Strong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 26:9Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say… |
| how?Strong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| how?Strong's entry C | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- how61
- and how19
- where2
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 82, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
33 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
- אֵ֚יךְ14
- אֵ֣יךְ11
- אֵיכָ֥ה5
- וְאֵ֥יךְ4
- אֵ֖יךְ3
- אֵ֛יךְ3
- אֵ֥יךְ3
- אֵיכָה֙3
- אֵיכָ֤ה3
- וְאֵיךְ֙3
- וְאֵ֖יךְ3
- אֵ֭יךְ2
and 21 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- question particle63HTi
- conjunction (“and”) + question particle19HC/Ti
Genesis
four uses
Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
- וְאֵ֥יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
- וְאֵ֨יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?
- וְאֵ֗יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
- אֵיךְ֙ʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Exodus
two uses
But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
- וְאֵיךְ֙veeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”
- וְאֵ֕יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
Deuteronomy
five uses
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?
- אֵיכָ֥הʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
- אֵיכָ֥הʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
- אֵיכָ֨הʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
- אֵיכָה֙ʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
- אֵיכָ֞הʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
Joshua
one use
But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”
- וְאֵ֖יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
Judges
two uses
“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
(Meanwhile the Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this wicked thing happen?”
- אֵיכָ֥הʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
Ruth
one use
“Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”
- אֵ֖יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
1 Samuel
one use
“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’
- אֵ֣יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
2 Samuel
eight uses
Then David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
- אֵ֣יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
- אֵ֖יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!”
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Once again, Abner warned Asahel, “Stop chasing me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How could I show my face to your brother Joab?”
- וְאֵיךְ֙veeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
That day David feared the LORD and asked, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”
- אֵ֛יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
- וְאֵ֨יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
1 Kings
one use
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
2 Kings
four uses
When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”
- אֵיכָ֥הʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”
- וְאֵ֖יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.
- אֵ֖יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
- וְאֵ֣יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
2 Chronicles
one use
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Esther
two uses
For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
- אֵיכָכָ֤הʾeikhakhahquestion particletagged: how
- וְאֵֽיכָכָ֤הveeikhakhahconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
Job
one use
So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
- וְ֭אֵיךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
Psalms
four uses
In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
- אֵ֭יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
- אֵיכָ֥הʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
- אֵ֤יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?
- אֵ֗יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Proverbs
one use
and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
- אֵ֭יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Ecclesiastes
two uses
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
- וְאֵ֛יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone?
- אֵ֥יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Song of Solomon
four uses
Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
- אֵיכָ֣הʾeikhahquestion particletagged: where
- אֵיכָ֖הʾeikhahquestion particletagged: where
I have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?
- אֵיכָ֖כָהʾeikhakhahquestion particletagged: how
- אֵיכָ֥כָהʾeikhakhahquestion particletagged: how
Isaiah
seven uses
See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!
- אֵיכָה֙ʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
- אֵ֛יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”
- וְאֵ֖יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
- וְאֵ֣יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.
- אֵ֣יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Jeremiah
nineteen uses
I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
- וְאֵיךְ֙veeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
- אֵ֣יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
- אֵיכָ֤הʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
- אֵ֣יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
- אֵ֣יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
- וְאֵ֥יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
- וְאֵ֥יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”
- אֵ֗יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”
- אֵ֣יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!
- אֵיכָ֤הʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”
- אֵ֥יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
- אֵ֛יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
- אֵ֥יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- אֵ֤יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
- אֵ֣יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
- אֵ֣יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Lamentations
four uses
How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
- אֵיכָ֣ה׀ʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
- אֵיכָה֩ʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
- אֵיכָה֙ʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
- אֵיכָ֤הʾeikhahquestion particletagged: how
Ezekiel
two uses
Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!
- אֵ֣יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’
- וְאֵ֥יךְveeikhconjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and how
Hosea
two uses
How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
- אֵ֞יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Obadiah
two uses
“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
- אֵ֣יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Micah
one use
In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
- אֵ֚יךְʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
Zephaniah
one use
This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
- אֵ֣יךְ׀ʾeikhquestion particletagged: how
The letters
Gematria 31· 511 mispar gadol
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.