STRONGS NUMBER H346


Word Summary
ayyeh: where?
Original Word: אַיֵּה
Transliteration: ayyeh
Phonetic Spelling: (ah-yay')
Part of Speech: interrogative adverb
Short Definition: where?
Meaning: where?
Strong's Concordance
where

Prolonged from 'ay; where? -- where.

see HEBREW 'ay

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H346. ayyeh

אַיֵּה45 (lengthened from אַי‎, compare הֵן‎ & הִנֵּה‎)

interr.adverb Where? Genesis 18:9; 19:5; 22:7; the most General term expressing this idea, used of both person & things (but never with a verb [contrast אֵיפֹה‎]); often in poetry or elevated style, where the answer nowhere is expected, Isaiah 33:18; 36:19; 51:13; Jeremiah 2:28 (compare Deuteronomy 32:37 אֵי‎) Jeremiah 17:15; 37:19, Job 15:23 he wandereth abroad for bread אַיֵּה‎ (saying) Where is it ? 21:28; Zechariah 1:5 (אַיֵּההֵֿם‎); in the (iron.) phrase where is thy (their) God? Psalm 42:4; 42:11; 79:10; 115:2 (אַיֵּהנָֿא‎) Joel 2:17; rhetorically, of an earnest inquiry Jeremiah 2:6, 8; Job 35:10, or longing Isaiah 63:11, 15; Judges 6:13.