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# עַיָּה

Biblical Hebrew

**Ava** — used 2 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

Ava [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. עַי.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (7 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 11:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.31/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י בִנְיָמִ֖ן מִגָּ֑בַע מִכְמָ֣שׂ וְעַיָּ֔ה וּבֵֽית־אֵ֖לבֵֽית־אֵ֖ל וּבְנֹתֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and the.descendants of.Benjamin \[were\].from Geba Micmash and Aija and Bethel Bethel and daughters its

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Benjamin from Geba onward, at Michmas and Aijah, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof;

[1 Chronicles 7:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.28/#tree)

וַאֲחֻזָּתָם֙ וּמֹ֣שְׁבוֹתָ֔ם בֵּֽית־אֵ֖לבֵּֽית־אֵ֖ל וּבְנֹתֶ֑יהָ וְלַמִּזְרָ֣ח נַעֲרָ֔ן וְלַֽמַּעֲרָ֗ב גֶּ֤זֶר וּבְנֹתֶ֙יהָ֙ וּשְׁכֶ֣ם וּבְנֹתֶ֔יהָ עַד־עַיָּ֖ה וּבְנֹתֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and possession their and their.dwelling places \[were\] Bethel and daughters its and to the east Naaran and to the west Gezer and daughters its and Shechem and daughters its to Ayyah and daughters its

*JPS 1917:* And their possessions and habitations were Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Aiah and the towns thereof;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5d9_5b8_5bc_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).