Hebrew intg · H370
אַיִן
ayinah-yin'
where?
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼayin
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H370is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H370
where? (only in connection with prepositional prefix, whence)
The King James renders it: whence, 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
ayin is rendered "where?". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Three of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 29:4“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
Genesis 29:4מֵאַ֣יִן
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
- from where11
- and from where5
- from whence1
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 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- מֵאַ֣יִן6
- וּמֵאַ֥יִן2
- וּמֵאַ֙יִן֙2
- מֵאַ֖יִן2
- וּמֵאַ֣יִן1
- מֵ֝אַ֗יִן1
- מֵאַ֤יִן1
- מֵאַ֥יִן1
- מֵאַ֛יִן1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + question particle12HR/Ti
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + question particle5HC/R/Ti
Genesis
two uses
“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
- מֵאַ֣יִןmeayinpreposition + question particletagged: from where
And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
- מֵאַ֣יִןmeayinpreposition + question particletagged: from where
Numbers
one use
Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
- מֵאַ֤יִןmeayinpreposition + question particletagged: from where
Joshua
two uses
But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
- מֵאַ֥יִןmeayinpreposition + question particletagged: from where
“We are your servants,” they said to Joshua. Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where have you come from?”
- וּמֵאַ֥יִןumeayinconjunction (“and”) + preposition + question particletagged: and from where
Judges
two uses
“Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”
- מֵאַ֣יִןmeayinpreposition + question particletagged: from where
When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”
- וּמֵאַ֥יִןumeayinconjunction (“and”) + preposition + question particletagged: and from where
2 Kings
three uses
When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” “Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied.
- מֵאַ֖יִןmeanpreposition + question particletagged: from whence
He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”
- מֵאַ֖יִןmeayinpreposition + question particletagged: from where
Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”
- וּמֵאַ֙יִן֙umeayinconjunction (“and”) + preposition + question particletagged: and from where
Job
three uses
“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
- מֵאַ֣יִןmeayinpreposition + question particletagged: from where
But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?
- מֵאַ֣יִןmeayinpreposition + question particletagged: from where
From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?
- מֵאַ֣יִןmeayinpreposition + question particletagged: from where
Psalms
one use
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
- מֵ֝אַ֗יִןmeayinpreposition + question particletagged: from where
Isaiah
one use
Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came to me from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”
- וּמֵאַ֙יִן֙umeayinconjunction (“and”) + preposition + question particletagged: and from where
Jonah
one use
“Tell us now,” they demanded, “who is to blame for this calamity that is upon us? What is your occupation, and where have you come from? What is your country, and who are your people?”
- וּמֵאַ֣יִןumeayinconjunction (“and”) + preposition + question particletagged: and from where
Nahum
one use
Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”
- מֵאַ֛יִןmeayinpreposition + question particletagged: from where
The letters
Gematria 61· 711 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 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.