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# אֵיכָכָה

Biblical Hebrew

**How?** — used 4 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_5db_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵיכָ֫כָה: How [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5db_5b8_5db_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (Ct) אֵֽיכָכָ֫ה (Est) (from אַי & כָּ֫כָה thus) How? only Ct 5:3(×2) Est 8:6(×2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: how? (4).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.3/#tree)

פָּשַׁ֙טְתִּי֙ אֶת־כֻּתָּנְתִּ֔י אֵיכָ֖כָה אֶלְבָּשֶׁ֑נָּה רָחַ֥צְתִּי אֶת־רַגְלַ֖י אֵיכָ֥כָה אֲטַנְּפֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* I.have.stripped.off (et) tunic my how? will I.put.it.on I.have.washed (et) feet my how? will I.dirty.them

*JPS 1917:* I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

[Esther 8:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.6/#tree)

כִּ֠י אֵיכָכָ֤ה אוּכַל֙ וְֽרָאִ֔יתִי בָּרָעָ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־יִמְצָ֣א אֶת־עַמִּ֑י וְאֵֽיכָכָ֤ה אוּכַל֙ וְֽרָאִ֔יתִי בְּאָבְדַ֖ן מוֹלַדְתִּֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) how? will.I.be.able and I.will.look on the evil which it.will.find (et) people my and how? will.I.be.able and I.will.look on the.destruction my.kindred my

*JPS 1917:* for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b5_5d9_5db_5b8_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_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).