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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 from thence to a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he erected an altar to the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 - And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed 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; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labor thither; for they are but few.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:4 - So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and 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 and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:1 - And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, 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 her king, as thou didst to Jericho and her king: only its spoil, and its cattle, shall ye take for a prey to yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:9

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:10 - And Joshua rose early in the morning, and numbered 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, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - And he took about five thousand men; and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, 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 Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain: but he knew not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - And there was not a man left in Ai, or Beth-el that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:18

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

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

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:23

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 made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they chased them, and when they had all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites 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 that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:26 - For Joshua drew not his hand back with which he stretched out the spear, until he 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 burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise upon it a great heap of stones, that remaineth 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 - Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedec king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men of it 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 Beth-el, one;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:28

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:32

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:31 - The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and in their villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:28

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 - Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
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