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# אַיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H345

**Aiah** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Aiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/345/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַיָּה²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/345/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (falcon) a Horite Gn 36:24; 1 Ch 1:40. father of Rizpah 2 S 3:7; 21:8, 10, 11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Aiah (4); Aiah (1); \[were\] Aiah (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 21:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.11/#tree)

וַיֻּגַּ֖ד לְדָוִ֑ד אֵ֧ת אֲשֶׁר־עָשְׂתָ֛ה רִצְפָּ֥ה בַת־אַיָּ֖ה פִּלֶ֥גֶשׁ שָׁאֽוּל׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.told to David (et) \[that\].which she.had.done Rizpah the.daughter of.Aiah the.concubine of.Saul

*JPS 1917:* And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

[1 Chronicles 1:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.40/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י שׁוֹבָ֔ל עַלְיָ֧ן וּמָנַ֛חַת וְעֵיבָ֖ל שְׁפִ֣י וְאוֹנָ֑םס וּבְנֵ֥י צִבְע֖וֹן אַיָּ֥ה וַעֲנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Shobal \[were\].Alyan and Manahath and Ebal Shephi and Onam and the.sons of.Zibeon \[were\].Aiah and Anah

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/345.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/345/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).