Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H5857
עַי
Ayah'ee
Ai
40 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻAy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5857is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 23spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5857
Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.
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
Ay is rendered "Ai". It stands 40 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Thirty-three of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 12:8From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-three different ways.
The first use
From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 12:8וְהָעַ֣י
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
- the Ai27
- and the Ai3
- in the Ai2
- to the Ai2
- Ai1
- Aiath1
- and Aija1
- and to the Ai1
- of the Ai1
- to Ai1
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.
All 40, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
23 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
- הָעָֽי׃8
- הָעָ֑י4
- הָעַ֖י3
- הָעַ֔י3
- הָעַ֗י2
- הָעַ֛י2
- וְהָעָ֔י2
- בָּעַ֔י1
- בָּעַי֙1
- הָעַ֞י1
- הָעַי֙1
- הָעַ֨י1
and 11 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)27HTd/Npl
- preposition with the article + proper noun (a name)6HRd/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Td/Npl
- proper noun (a name)2HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + proper noun (a name)1HC/Rd/Npl
Genesis
two uses
From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
- וְהָעַ֣יvehaaiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and the Ai
From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,
- הָעָֽי׃haaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
Joshua
thirty-three uses
Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
- הָעַ֞יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
- הָעָֽי׃haaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”
- הָעָ֑יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.
- הָעָֽי׃haaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.
- הָעַ֗יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
- הָעָ֑יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
- הָעַי֙haaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”
- לָעַ֜יlaaipreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: to the Ai
So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night
- הָעָ֑יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.
- הָעַ֖יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
- לָעָ֑יlaaipreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: of the Ai
Joshua got up early the next morning and mobilized his men, and he and the elders of Israel marched before them up to Ai.
- הָעָֽי׃haaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
Then all the troops who were with him marched up and approached the city. They arrived in front of Ai and camped to the north of it, with the valley between them and the city.
- לָעַ֔יlaaipreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Ai
- הָעָֽי׃haaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
- הָעַ֖יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.
- הָעַ֗יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
Then all the men of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they followed Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
- בָּעַ֔יbairpreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: in the Ai
Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.
- בָּעַי֙baaipreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: in the Ai
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai,
- הָעַ֔יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.
- הָעַ֨יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.
- הָעָֽי׃haaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
- הָעַ֖יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.
- הָעַ֜יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
- הָעַ֔יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.
- הָעָֽי׃haaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
Joshua did not draw back the hand that held his battle lance until he had devoted to destruction all who lived in Ai.
- הָעָֽי׃haaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
- הָעָ֑יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.
- הָעַ֛יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
- וְלָעָֽי׃velaaiconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to the Ai
Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.
- הָעַי֮haaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
- לָעַ֖יlaaipreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: to the Ai
So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
- הָעַ֔יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;
- הָעַ֛יhaaithe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Ai
Ezra
one use
the men of Bethel and Ai, 223;
- וְהָעָ֔יvehaaiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and the Ai
Nehemiah
two uses
the men of Bethel and Ai, 123;
- וְהָעָ֔יvehaaiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and the Ai
The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;
- וְעַיָּ֔הveaiyahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Aija
Isaiah
one use
Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.
- עַיַּ֖תʾaiyatproper noun (a name)tagged: Aiath
Jeremiah
one use
Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
- עַ֗יʾaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Ai
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.