Lexicon :: Strong's H346 - 'ayyê

“Where is your wife Sarah? ” they asked him.

“There, in the tent,” he answered.

They called out to Lot and said, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them! ”

Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, “My father.”

And he replied, “Here I am, my son.”

Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? ”

He asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim? ”

“There has been no cult prostitute here,” they answered.

“So where is he? ” he asked his daughters. “Why then did you leave the man behind? Invite him to eat dinner.”

Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about? They said, ‘Hasn’t the LORD brought us out of Egypt? ’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

Zebul replied, “What do you have to say now? You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him? ’ Aren’t these the troops you despised? Now go and fight them! ”

“Where is your master’s grandson? ” the king asked.

“Why, he’s staying in Jerusalem,” Ziba replied to the king, “for he said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore my grandfather’s kingdom to me.’ ”

Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house and asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? ”

“They passed by toward the water,”[fn] the woman replied to them. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

He took the mantle Elijah had dropped, and he struck the water. “Where is the LORD God of Elijah? ” he asked. He struck the water himself, and it parted to the right and the left, and Elisha crossed over.

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?[fn] Have they rescued Samaria from my power?

But a person dies and fades away;

he breathes his last ​— ​where is he?

He wanders about for food, asking, “Where is it? ”

He knows the day of darkness is at hand.

where then is my hope?

Who can see any hope for me?

For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house? ”

and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in? ”

My tears have been my food day and night,

while all day long people say to me,

“Where is your God? ”

My adversaries taunt me,

as if crushing my bones,

while all day long they say to me,

“Where is your God? ”

Why should the nations ask,

“Where is their God? ”

Before our eyes,

let vengeance for the shed blood of your servants

be known among the nations.

Lord, where are the former acts of your faithful love

that you swore to David in your faithfulness?

Why should the nations say,

“Where is their God? ”

Your mind will meditate on the past terror:

“Where is the accountant?[fn]

Where is the tribute collector?[fn]

Where is the one who spied out our defenses? ”[fn]

“Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my power?

“Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of[fn] Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah? ’ ”

But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker,

who stretched out the heavens

and laid the foundations of the earth.

You are in constant dread all day long

because of the fury of the oppressor,

who has set himself to destroy.

But where is the fury of the oppressor?

Then he[fn] remembered the days of the past,

the days of Moses and his people.

Where is he who brought them out of the sea

with the shepherds[fn] of his flock?

Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among the flock?

Look down from heaven and see

from your lofty home ​— ​holy and beautiful.

Where is your zeal and your might?

Your yearning[fn] and your compassion

are withheld from me.

They stopped asking, “Where is the LORD

who brought us from the land of Egypt,

who led us through the wilderness,

through a land of deserts and ravines,

through a land of drought and darkness,[fn]

a land no one traveled through

and where no one lived? ”

The priests quit asking, “Where is the LORD? ”

The experts in the law no longer knew me,

and the rulers rebelled against me.

The prophets prophesied by[fn] Baal

and followed useless idols.

But where are your gods you made for yourself?

Let them rise up and save you

in your time of disaster if they can,

for your gods are as numerous as your cities, Judah.

Look up and see

those coming from the north.

Where is the flock entrusted to you,

the sheep that were your pride?

Hear how they keep challenging me,

“Where is the word of the LORD?

Let it come! ”

“Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and this land’?

They cry out to their mothers,

“Where is the grain and wine? ”

as they faint like the wounded

in the streets of the city,

as their life pours out

in the arms of their mothers.

When the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, “Where’s the whitewash you plastered on it? ”

Let the priests, the LORD’s ministers,

weep between the portico and the altar.

Let them say,

“Have pity on your people, LORD,

and do not make your inheritance a disgrace,

an object of scorn among the nations.

Why should it be said among the peoples,

‘Where is their God? ’ ”

Then my enemy will see,

and she will be covered with shame,

the one who said to me,

“Where is the LORD your God? ”

My eyes will look at her in triumph;

at that time she will be trampled

like mud in the streets.

Where is the lions’ lair,

or the feeding ground of the young lions,

where the lion and lioness prowled,

and the lion’s cub,

with nothing to frighten them away?

“Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me? says the LORD of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.”

Yet you ask, “How have we despised your name? ”

You have wearied the LORD with your words.

Yet you ask, “How have we wearied him? ”

When you say, “Everyone who does what is evil is good in the LORD’s sight, and he is delighted with them, or else where is the God of justice? ”