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# אַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H335

**where?** — used 39 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

where? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/335/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַי: interrog.adv. where [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/335/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (أَىٌّ, አይ in Syr. in cpds. as ܐܰܝܟܰܢ how? WSG 120–2; cf. As. aiu, who? what?). interrog.adv. where? so with sf. אַיֶּ֫כָּה \[a verbal form, v. Sta§ 355 b. 3\] Gn 3:9; אַיּוֹ Ex 2:20, poet. where is he? = he is nowhere Jb 14:10; 20:7 (Je 37:19 rd. Qr אַיֵּה); אַיָּם Na 3:17 (in indirect qu.) and the place thereof is not known, אַיָּם where they are. Idiomatically, with the sf. anticipating the noun to which it refers (Ew§ 309 c, cf. DrSm i. 21, 14) 2 K 19:13 אַיּוֹ מֶלֶךְ־חֲמָת where is he, the king of Hamath? (‖ Is 37:13 אַיֵּה) Is 19:12 Mi 7:10. When used alone, or with other adverbs (v. infr.), it is contracted to אֵי Gn 4:9 Dt 32:37 1 S 26:16 Pr 31:4 Qr. (The more usual form is אַיֵּה.) strengthened by the enclitic זֶה (v. זֶה, 4) אֵי־זֶה15 where, then? (never of a person, exc. Est 7:5 (late), & only once 1 K 22:24 \[but v. 2 Ch 18:23\] with a verb) Is 50:1; 66:1(×2) Je 6:16, in indirect qu. 1 S 9:18; in the phrase אֵי־זֶה הַדֶּרֶךְ … where is the way (that) …? †1 K 13:12 2 K 3:8 2 Ch 18:23 Jb 38:19a, 24. prefixed to other adverbs or prons., אֵי imparts to them an interrog. force: thus אֵי־זֶה which (of two or more)? only Ec 2:3; 11:6 (late), in indirect qu. †אֵי־מִזֶּה whence? (מִזֶּה = hence; v. sub זֶה) Gn 16:8 אֵי־מִזֶּה בָאתְ 1 S 30:13 2 S 1:3, 13 Jb 2:2; in indirect qu. Ju 13:6 1 S 25:11; fem. subst. annexed 2 S 15:2 אֵי־מִזֶּה עִיר אַתָּה lit. whence, as regards city, art thou? Jon 1:8. †אֵי־לָזֹאת Je 5:7 upon what ground? (𝔙 super quo?) how? With other adverbs, אֵי coalesces into one word, v. אֵיכָה, אֵיכָכָה, אֵיפֹה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 33 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: where? (31); where \[is\] (5); where \[are\] (3).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 32:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.37/#tree)

וְאָמַ֖ר אֵ֣י אֱלֹהֵ֑ימוֹ צ֖וּר חָסָ֥יוּ בֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.say where? gods \[are\].their \[the\].rock \[which\].they.sought.refuge in it

*JPS 1917:* And it is said: Where are their gods, the rock in whom they trusted;

[Job 38:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.24/#tree)

אֵי־זֶ֣ה הַ֭דֶּרֶךְ יֵחָ֣לֶק א֑וֹר יָפֵ֖ץ קָדִ֣ים עֲלֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* where? this \[is\].the way \[where\].it.is.divided light \[where\].it.scatters \[the\].east.wind over \[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* By what way is the light parted, or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/335.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/335/): 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).