STRONGS NUMBER H165


Word Summary
ehi: where?
Original Word: אֱהִי
Transliteration: ehi
Phonetic Spelling: (e-hee')
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: where?
Meaning: where?
Strong's Concordance
where, I will be

Apparently an orthographical variation for 'ayeh; where -- I will be (Hos. 13:10, Hos. 13:14) (which is often the rendering of the same Hebrew form from hayah).

see HEBREW 'ayeh

see HEBREW hayah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H165. ehi

אֱהִיHosea 13:10, 14 (twice in verse) adverb where ? = אַיֵּה אֵי,‎. So ᵑ7 ᵑ9 ᵑ6 ᵐ5‎ AW in 13:10, & ᵑ6 ᵐ5‎ (compare 1 Corinthians 15:55) AW in Hosea 13:14. Taken by many of the older interpreters, and even by Ges in 13:14, as 1singular imperfect with apocope of היהI would be: but this is less suited to the context, and the jussive form is an objection, being unusual with the 1 person

I. אהל‎ (settle down (?), Arabic be inhabited, compare Assyrian âlu, settlement, city, ma'âlu, ma'âltu, bed; DlW & Prov 105). **NöZMG xi (1886). 154, 720 doubts אֹהֶל‎ = = âlu; but = dwelling actually in vulgar Arabic according to SoBuhl.