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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.
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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 Box Gen 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - And he removed thence towards the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel toward the west, and Ai toward the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And he went on his journeys from the south as far as Bethel; as far as the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 - And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the country. And the men went up and spied out Ai.

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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; let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; make not all the people to toil thither, for they are few.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:4 - And there went up thither of the people about three thousand men, but they fled before the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:5 - And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty-six men; and they pursued them from before the gate to Shebarim, and smote them on the descent. Then the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:1 - And Jehovah said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be dismayed. Take with thee all the people of war, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - And thou shalt do to Ai and to its king as thou didst to Jericho and to its king; only, the spoil thereof and the cattle thereof shall ye take as prey for yourselves. Set an ambush against the city behind it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:3 - And Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose thirty thousand valiant men, and sent them away by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9 - And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai. And Joshua lodged that night among the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:10 - And Joshua rose early in the morning, and inspected the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - And all the people of war that were with him went up, and drew near, and came before the city; and they encamped on the north of Ai; and the valley was between them and Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - Now he had taken about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - And it came to pass when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hasted and rose early, and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the appointed place before the plain. But he knew not that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:16 - And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - And not a man remained in Ai and Bethel that went not out after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:18 - And Jehovah said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua stretched out the javelin that he had in his hand toward the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - And the men of Ai turned and saw, and behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way; and the people that fled to the wilderness turned upon the pursuers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - And it came to pass when Israel had ended slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they had chased them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25 - And so it was, that all who fell that day, men as well as women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:26 - And Joshua did not draw back his hand, which he had stretched out with the javelin, until they had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:28 - And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his carcase down from the tree, and threw it down at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised upon it a great heap of stones, which remains to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:3 - And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - And it came to pass when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it, that he had done to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - that they feared greatly; for Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:9 - The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:28 - The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:32

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:31 - And the children of Benjamin from Geba dwelt in Michmash and Aija and Bethel, and their dependent villages,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:28 - He is come to Aiath, he hath passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 - Howl, Heshbon! for Ai is laid waste; cry, daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth, lament and run to and fro within the enclosures: for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
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