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# אֵיךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H349

**how?** — used 61 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

how? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/349/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵיךְ: adv. interrog. How? as an exclam. How [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/349/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (Aramaic אֵיךְ, ܐܰܝܟ \[pron. âch\]) adv. interrog. How? Gn 26:9 2 S 1:5, 14 1 K 12:6 Is 20:6 al.; of. with impf. (esp. in 1 ps.) in an expostulation Gn 39:9; 44:8, 34 Jos 9:7 2 S 2:22; 12:18 ψ 137:4, Is 48:11 for how should it be profaned? איך תאמר(ו) how canst or dost thou (do you) say …? Ju 16:15 Is 19:11 Je 2:23 (cf. 8:8 אֵיכָה) 48:14 ψ 11:1; in an indirect sentence 2 K 17:28 Je 36:17 Ru 3:18. as an exclam. How! whether of lamentation 2 S 1:19 Je 2:21; 9:18 Mi 2:4 Ec 2:16; or of satisfaction Is 14:4, 12 Je 48:39; 51:41 Ob 5 al.; with intensive force = how gladly! Je 3:19, how terribly! 9:6 (but others render here ‘for how \[else\] should I do’? etc.), Ho 11:8 acc. to Hi.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 34 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: how? (38); how! (23).

## In the verses

[Obadiah 1:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.6/#tree)

אֵ֚יךְ נֶחְפְּשׂ֣וּ עֵשָׂ֔ו נִבְע֖וּ מַצְפֻּנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* how! they.will.be.plundered Esau they.will.be.searched.out treasures its.hidden

*JPS 1917:* How is Esau searched out! How are his hidden places sought out!

[2 Samuel 1:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.27/#tree)

אֵ֚יךְ נָפְל֣וּ גִבּוֹרִ֔ים וַיֹּאבְד֖וּ כְּלֵ֥י מִלְחָמָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* how! they.have.fallen \[the\].mighty.\[ones\] and they.have.perished \[the\].weapons of.war

*JPS 1917:* How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/349.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/349/): 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).