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# אֵיכָה

Biblical Hebrew

**how?** — used 17 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/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5db_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵיכָה: adv. interrog. In what manner exclam. How Where [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5db_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (from אַי and כָּה = כֹּה; cf. As. ekiam) adv. interrog. In what manner? τίνι τρόπῳ; (rather more definite than אֵיךְ = πῶς;) Dt 1:12; 7:17; 12:30; 18:21; 32:30 Ju 20:3 (indirect sentence) 2 K 6:15 Je 8:8 ψ 73:11. exclam. How! (slightly more emph. than אֵיךְ) Is 1:21 Je 48:17 La 1:1; 2:1; 4:1, 2. Where? (prob. north-Isr.; cf. Aramaic אֵיכָא, ܐܰܝܟܳܐ where? Cf. DrIntr. 178, 421) only 2 K 6:13 (K3 אֵיכֹה) Kt Ct 1:7(×2),—each time in an indirect sentence.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 16 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: how? (9); how! (6); where? (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 73:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.11/#tree)

וְֽאָמְר֗וּ אֵיכָ֥ה יָדַֽע־אֵ֑ל וְיֵ֖שׁ דֵּעָ֣ה בְעֶלְיֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and they.say how? does.he.know God and.\[is\] there? knowledge with the.Most.High

*JPS 1917:* And they say: 'How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

[Deuteronomy 1:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.12/#tree)

אֵיכָ֥ה אֶשָּׂ֖א לְבַדִּ֑י טָרְחֲכֶ֥ם וּמַֽשַּׂאֲכֶ֖ם וְרִֽיבְכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* how? will.I.bear I alone burden your and burden your and dispute\[s\] your

*JPS 1917:* How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5db_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5db_5b8_5d4/): 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).