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# אֵיפֹה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H375

**what place?** — used 10 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

what place? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/375/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵיפֹה: adv. where of what kind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/375/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (from אַי & פֹּה here) adv. where? Gn 37:16 1 S 19:22 2 S 9:4 Is 49:21 Je 3:2 Jb 4:7; 38:4 Ru 2:19; in indirect sentence Je 36:19 (less common than אַיֵּה, used of persons \[contrast אֵי־זֶה\] and with a verb \[contrast אַיֵּה\]). of what kind? (qualis?) only Ju 8:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: where? (10).

## In the verses

[Job 4:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.7/#tree)

זְכָר־נָ֗א מִ֤י ה֣וּא נָקִ֣י אָבָ֑ד וְ֝אֵיפֹ֗ה יְשָׁרִ֥ים נִכְחָֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* remember please who? that innocent did.he.perish and where? upright.\[people\] were.they.destroyed

*JPS 1917:* Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

[Job 38:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.4/#tree)

אֵיפֹ֣ה הָ֭יִיתָ בְּיָסְדִי־אָ֑רֶץ הַ֝גֵּ֗ד אִם־יָדַ֥עְתָּ בִינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* where? were.you when founded I \[the\].earth tell if you.know understanding

*JPS 1917:* Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast the understanding.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/375.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/375/): 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).