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Lexicon :: Strong's H5857 - ʿay

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עַי
Transliteration
ʿay
Pronunciation
ah'ee
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

עַי ʻAy, ah'ee; or (feminine) עַיָּא ʻAyâʼ; (Nehemiah 11:31), or עַיָּת ʻAyâth; (Isaiah 10:28), for H5856; Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine:—Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x

The KJV translates Strong's H5857 in the following manner: Ai (36x), Hai (2x), Aiath (1x), city (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x
The KJV translates Strong's H5857 in the following manner: Ai (36x), Hai (2x), Aiath (1x), city (1x).

  1. Ai or Aija or Aiath or Hai = "heap of ruins"

    1. a city lying east of Bethel and beside Bethaven near Jericho and the second city taken on the invasion of Canaan

    2. a city of the Ammonites on the east of the Jordan and apparently attached to Heshbon

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עַי ʻAy, ah'ee; or (feminine) עַיָּא ʻAyâʼ; (Nehemiah 11:31), or עַיָּת ʻAyâth; (Isaiah 10:28), for H5856; Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine:—Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.
STRONGS H5857: Abbreviations
עַי, עַיָּ֑ת, עַיָּה 40 proper name, of a location Αγγαι (Genesis), Γαι:
1. old Canaanite city, עַי always with article הָעַי (הָעָ֑י Genesis 13:3 +), near Bethel to the southeast (exact site unknown, compare DiJoshua 7:2 BuhlGeogr. 177), Genesis 12:8 (J), Genesis 13:3 (J), Joshua 7:2 (twice in verse); Joshua 7:3, 4, 5; Joshua 8:1 (twice in verse); Joshua 8:2, 3 + 18 times Joshua 8 (+ Qr Joshua 8:12; Joshua 8:16, but improbable, Kt עיר, compare Di), Joshua 9:3; Joshua 10:1 (twice in verse); Joshua 10:2 (all J E), Joshua 12:9 (D), Ezra 2:28 = Nehemiah 7:32; = עַיָּת Isaiah 10:28; עַיָּה (so Baer Ginsb, > עַיָּא van d. H.) Nehemiah 11:31, so read also (for עַזָּה whhich see near the end) 1 Chronicles 7:28.
2. east Jordan city Jeremiah 49:3 (+ חֶשְׁבוֺן), but read עָר city (?) Gf RothstKau Co (הָעִיר ?).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

12:8; 13:3; 13:3

Joshua

7:2; 7:2; 7:3; 7:4; 7:5; 8; 8:1; 8:2; 8:3; 8:12; 8:16; 9:3; 10:1; 10:2; 12:9

1 Chronicles

7:28

Ezra

2:28

Nehemiah

7:32; 11:31

Isaiah

10:28

Jeremiah

49:3

H5857

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Strong's Number H5857 matches the Hebrew עַי (ʿay),
which occurs 40 times in 34 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - And he departed thence to the mountain eastward of Bæthel, and there he pitched his tent in Bæthel near the sea, and Aggai toward the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And he went to the place whence he came, into the wilderness as far as Bæthel, as far as the place where his tent was before, between Bæthel and Aggai,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 - And Joshua sent men to Gai, which is by Bæthel, saying, Spy out Gai: and the men went up and spied Gai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:3 - And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and take the city by siege: carry not up thither the whole people, for the enemy are few.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:4 - And there went up about three thousand men, and they fled from before the men of Gai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:5 - And the men of Gai slew of them to the number of thirty-six men, and they pursued them from the gate, and destroyed them from the steep hill; and the heart of the people was alarmed and became as water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:1 - And the Lord said to Joshua, Fear not, nor be timorous: take with thee all the men of war, and arise, go up to Gai; behold, I have given into thy hands the king of Gai, and his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - And thou shalt do to Gai, as thou didst to Jericho and its king; and thou shalt take to thyself the spoil of its cattle; set now for thyself an ambush for the city behind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:3 - And Joshua and all the men of war rose to go up to Gai; and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men, and he sent them away by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9 - And Joshua sent them, and they went to lie in ambush; and they lay between Bæthel and Gai, westward of Gai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:10 - And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and [fn]numbered the people; and he went up, he and the elders before the people to Gai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - And all the men of war went up with him, and they went forward and came over against the city eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - And the ambuscade was on the west side of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - And it came to pass when the king of Gai saw it, he hasted and went out to meet them direct to the battle, he and all the people that were with him: and he knew not that there was an ambuscade formed against him behind the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:16 - And they pursued after the children of Israel, and they themselves went to a distance from the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - There was no one left in Gai who did not pursue after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:18 - And the Lord said to Joshua, Stretch forth thy hand with the spear that is in thy hand toward the city, for I have delivered it into thy hands; and the liers in wait shall rise up quickly out of their place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - And when the inhabitants of Gai looked round behind them, then they saw the smoke going up out of the city to heaven, and they were no longer able to flee this way or that way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - And Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambuscade [fn]had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they turned and smote the men of Gai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:23 - And they took the king of Gai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - And when the children of Israel had ceased slaying all that were in Gai, and in the fields, and in the mountain on the descent, from whence they pursued them even to the end, then Joshua returned to Gai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25 - And they that fell in that day, men and women, were twelve thousand: they slew all the inhabitants of Gai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:28 - And Joshua burnt the city with fire: he made it an uninhabited heap for ever, even to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And he hanged the king of Gai on a [fn]gallows; and he remained on the tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave charge, and they took down his body from the tree, and cast it into [fn]a pit, and they set over him a heap of stones until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:3 - And the inhabitants of Gabaon heard of all that the Lord did to Jericho and Gai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - And when Adoni-bezec king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Gai, and had destroyed it, as he did to Jericho and its king, even so they did to Gai and its king, and that the inhabitants of Gabaon had gone over to Joshua and Israel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - then they were greatly terrified by them, for the king knew that Gabaon was a great city, as one of the [fn]chief cities, and all its men were mighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:9 - The king of Jericho, and the king of Gai, which is near Bæthel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:28 - The men of Bæthel and Aia, four hundred and twenty-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:32 - The men of Baethel and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:31 - And the children of Benjamin dwelt from Gabaa to Machmas.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:28 - For he shall arrive at the city of Angai, and shall pass on to Maggedo, and shall lay up his stores in Machmas.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 - (LXX 30:19) Howl, O Esebon, for Gai has perished; cry, ye daughters of Rabbath, gird yourselves with sackclothes, and lament; for Melchol shall go into banishment, his priests and his princes together.
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