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Lexicon :: Strong's H349 - 'êḵ

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אֵיךְ
Transliteration
'êḵ
Pronunciation
ake
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Part of Speech
interjection, interrogative adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
Prolonged from אַי (H335)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 75

Strong’s Definitions

אֵיךְ ʼêyk, ake; also אֵיכָה ʼêykâh ; and אֵיכָכָה ʼêykâkâh ; prolonged from H335; how? or how!; also where:—how, what.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's H349 in the following manner: how, what, where.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's H349 in the following manner: how, what, where.
interrogative adverb
  1. how?

    interjection
  2. how! (in lamentation)

  3. expression of satisfaction

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֵיךְ ʼêyk, ake; also אֵיכָה ʼêykâh ; and אֵיכָכָה ʼêykâkâh ; prolonged from H335; how? or how!; also where:—how, what.
STRONGS H349: Abbreviations
אֵיךְ 59 (Aramaic אֵיךְ, KAf   [pronounced âch]) adverb.
1. interrogative How? Genesis 26:9; 2 Samuel 1:5, 14; 1 Kings 12:6; Isaiah 20:6 and elsewhere; often with imperfect (especially in 1st person) in an expostulation Genesis 39:9; Genesis 44:8, 34; Joshua 9:7; 2 Samuel 2:22; 2 Samuel 12:18; Psalm 137:4; Isaiah 48:11 for how should it be profaned ? איך תאמר(ו) how canst or dost thou (do you) say... ? Judges 16:15; Isaiah 19:11; Jeremiah 2:23 (compare Jeremiah 8:8 אֵיכָה) Jeremiah 48:14; Psalm 11:1; in an indirect sentence 2 Kings 17:28; Jeremiah 36:17; Ruth 3:18.
2. as an exclamation How! whether of lamentation 2 Samuel 1:19; Jeremiah 2:21; Jeremiah 9:18; Micah 2:4; or of satisfaction Isaiah 14:4, 12; Jeremiah 48:39; Jeremiah 51:41; Obadiah 5 and elsewhere; with intensive force = how gladly! Jeremiah 3:19, how terribly! Jeremiah 9:6 (but others render here 'for how [else] should I do'? etc.) **Hos 11:8 according to Hi Ke We Marti and others.

אֵיכָה (from אַי and כָּה = כֹּה; compare Assyrian ekiam) adverb
1. interrogative In what manner? τίνι τρόπῳ; (rather more definite than אֵיח = πῶς); Deuteronomy 1:12; Deuteronomy 7:17; Deuteronomy 12:30; Deuteronomy 18:21; Deuteronomy 32:30; Judges 20:3 (indirect sentence) 2 Kings 6:15; Jeremiah 8:8; Psalm 73:11.
2. exclamation How! (slightly more emphatic than אֵיח) Isaiah 1:21; Jeremiah 48:17; Lamentations 1:1; Lamentations 2:1; Lamentations 4:1, 2.
3. Where? (properly north-Israel; compare Aramaic אֵיכָא, axByAf where ? compare DrIntr. 178, 421) only 2 Kings 6:13 Kt Songs 1:7 (twice in verse), — each time in an indirect sentence.

אֵיכָ֫כָה (Songs) ֵֽֽֽאיכָכָ֫ה (Esther) (from אַי & כָּ֫כָה thus) How? only Songs 5:3 (twice in verse); Esther 8:6 (twice in verse).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

26:9; 39:9; 44:8; 44:34

Deuteronomy

1:12; 7:17; 12:30; 18:21; 32:30

Joshua

9:7

Judges

16:15; 20:3

Ruth

3:18

2 Samuel

1:5; 1:14; 1:19; 2:22; 12:18

1 Kings

12:6

2 Kings

6:13; 6:15; 17:28

Esther

8:6

Psalms

11:1; 73:11; 137:4

Song of Songs

1:7; 5:3

Isaiah

1:21; 14:4; 14:12; 19:11; 20:6; 48:11

Jeremiah

2:21; 2:23; 3:19; 8:8; 8:8; 9:6; 9:18; 36:17; 48:14; 48:17; 48:39; 51:41

Lamentations

1:1; 2:1; 4:1; 4:2

Hosea

11:8

Obadiah

1:5

Micah

2:4

H349

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H349 matches the Hebrew אֵיךְ ('êḵ),
which occurs 82 times in 74 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 26:9–Jer 2:23)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 -

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’? ”

Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:9 -

“No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do this immense evil, and how could I sin against God? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 -

“We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found at the top of our bags. How could we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34 -

“For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:12 -

But Moses said in the LORD’s presence, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am such a poor speaker? ”[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:30 -

But Moses replied in the LORD’s presence, “Since I am such a poor speaker, how will Pharaoh listen to me? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:12 -

“But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:17 -

“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out? ’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 -

“be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, ‘How did these nations worship their gods? I’ll also do the same.’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:21 -

“You may say to yourself, ‘How can we recognize a message the LORD has not spoken? ’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 -

How could one pursue a thousand,

or two put ten thousand to flight,

unless their Rock had sold them,

unless the LORD had given them up?

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:7 -

The men of Israel replied to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us. How can we make a treaty with you? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:15 -

“How can you say, ‘I love you,’ ” she told him, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and not told me what makes your strength so great! ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:3 -

The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.

The Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this evil act happen? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:18 -

Naomi said, “My daughter, wait until you find out how things go, for he won’t rest unless he resolves this today.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:2 -

Samuel asked, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me! ”

The LORD answered, “Take a young cow with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:5 -

David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know Saul and his son Jonathan are dead? ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:14 -

David questioned him, “How is it that you were not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed? ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:19 -

The splendor of Israel lies slain on your heights.

How the mighty have fallen!

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:25 -

How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle!

Jonathan lies slain on your heights.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:27 -

How the mighty have fallen

and the weapons of war have perished!

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:22 -

Once again, Abner warned Asahel, “Stop chasing me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How could I ever look your brother Joab in the face? ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:9 -

David feared the LORD that day and said, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me? ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:18 -

On the seventh day the baby died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him the baby was dead. They said, “Look, while the baby was alive, we spoke to him, and he wouldn’t listen to us. So how can we tell him the baby is dead? He may do something desperate.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:6 -

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to this people? ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 -

When the servant of the man of God got up early and went out, he discovered an army with horses and chariots surrounding the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do? ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:4 -

However, they were terrified and reasoned, “Look, two kings couldn’t stand against him; how can we? ”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:28 -

So one of the priests they had deported came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should fear the LORD.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:24 -

“How then can you drive back a single officer among the least of my master’s servants? How can you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:6 -

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had attended his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to this people? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:6 -

“For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 -

So how can you offer me such futile comfort?

Your answers are deceptive.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:1 -

I have taken refuge in the LORD.

How can you say to me,

“Escape to the mountains[fn] like a bird!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:11 -

The wicked say, “How can God know?

Does the Most High know everything? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 -

How suddenly they become a desolation!

They come to an end, swept away by terrors.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:4 -

How can we sing the LORD’s song

on foreign soil?

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:12 -

and you will say, “How I hated discipline,

and how my heart despised correction.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:16 -

For, just like the fool, there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, since in the days to come both will be forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies just like the fool?

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:11 -

Also, if two lie down together, they can keep warm; but how can one person alone keep warm?

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:7 -

Tell me, you whom I love:

Where do you pasture your sheep?

Where do you let them rest at noon?

Why should I be like one who veils herself[fn]

beside the flocks of your companions?

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:3 -

I have taken off my clothing.

How can I put it back on?

I have washed my feet.

How can I get them dirty?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 -

The faithful town —

what an adulteress[fn] she has become!

She was once full of justice.

Righteousness once dwelt in her,

but now, murderers!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:4 -

you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say:

How the oppressor has quieted down,

and how the raging[fn] has become quiet!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12 -

Shining morning star,[fn]

how you have fallen from the heavens!

You destroyer of nations,

you have been cut down to the ground.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:11 -

The princes of Zoan are complete fools;

Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!

How can you say to Pharaoh,

“I am one[fn] of the wise,

a student of eastern[fn] kings”?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 -

“And the inhabitants of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Look, this is what has happened to those we relied on and fled to for help to rescue us from the king of Assyria! Now, how will we escape? ’ ”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:9 -

“How then can you drive back a single officer among the least of my master’s servants? How can you rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:11 -

“I will act for my own sake, indeed, my own,

for how can I[fn] be defiled?

I will not give my glory to another.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 -

I planted you, a choice vine

from the very best seed.

How then could you turn into

a degenerate, foreign vine?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:23 -

How can you protest, “I am not defiled;

I have not followed the Baals”?

Look at your behavior in the valley;

acknowledge what you have done.

You are a swift young camel

twisting and turning on her way,


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