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# אַיִן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H370

**whence?** — 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

whence? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/370/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַ֫יִן: adv. whence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/370/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. (from אַי; Ass. aina, ainu, Ara. أَيْنَ where? مِنْ أَيْنَ whence?) only in the compound מֵאַ֫יִן17 whence? Gn 29:4; 42:7 (syn. אֵי־מִזֶּה e.g. Gn 16:8 1 S 30:13) Ju 17:9; 19:17 Jb 1:7 (2:2 אֵי־מִזֶּה); used in a rhet. or poet. style (where אֵי־מִזֶּה would be too prosaic) Nu 11:13 מֵאַיִן לִי בָּשָׂר whence have I flesh etc.? 2 K 6:27 Je 30:7 Alas! for that day is great; מֵאַיִן כָּמוֹהוּ whence is its like? (see also II. אַיִן ad fin.) Na 3:7 ψ 121:1 Jb 28:12, 20; in an indirect sentence Jos 2:4 (cf. אֵי־מִזֶּה 1 S 25:11).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: where? (16); where (1).

## In the verses

[Job 28:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.12/#tree)

וְֽ֭הַחָכְמָה מֵאַ֣יִן תִּמָּצֵ֑א וְאֵ֥י זֶ֝ה מְק֣וֹם בִּינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (the) wisdom from where? will.it.be.found and where? this \[is.the\].place of.understanding

*JPS 1917:* But wisdom, where shall it be found? And where is the place of understanding?

[Job 28:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.20/#tree)

וְֽ֭הַחָכְמָה מֵאַ֣יִן תָּב֑וֹא וְאֵ֥י זֶ֝֗ה מְק֣וֹם בִּינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (the) wisdom from where? does.it.come and where? this \[is.the\].place of.understanding

*JPS 1917:* Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/370.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/370/): 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).