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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 19 times in 15 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 -

“Yet I planted you as a choice vine,

A completely faithful seed.

How H349 then have you turned yourself before Me

Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:23 -

“How H349 can you say, ‘I am not defiled,

I have not gone after the Baals’?

Look at your way in the valley!

Know what you have done!

You are a swift young camel running about senselessly on her ways,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19 -

“Then I said,

‘How H349 I would set you among [fn]My sons

And give you a pleasant land,

The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’

And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father,

And not turn away from following Me.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:8 -

“How can you say, ‘We are wise,

And the Law of the LORD is with us’?

But behold, the lying pen of the scribes

Has made it into a lie.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7 -

Therefore this is what the LORD of armies says:

“Behold, I will refine them and put them to the test;

For what H349 else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:19

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“For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion:

‘How H349 devastated we are!

We are put to great shame,

For we have abandoned the land

Because they have torn down our homes.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:5 -

“If you have run with infantrymen and they have tired you out,

How H349 can you compete with horses?

If you fall down in a land of peace,

How H349 will you do in the thicket by the Jordan?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:17 - Then they asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us, please, how H349 did you write all these words? Was it [fn]at Jeremiah’s dictation?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:7 -

“How H349 can [fn]it be quiet,

When the LORD has given it an order?

Against Ashkelon and against the sea shore—

There He has summoned it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:14 -

“How H349 can you say, ‘We are warriors,

And men competent for battle’?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:17 -

“Mourn for him, all you who live around him,

And all of you who know his name;

Say, ‘How the mighty [fn]scepter has been broken,

A staff of splendor!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:39 - “How H349 [fn]shattered it is! How they have wailed! How H349 Moab has turned his back—he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an object of terror to all around him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:25 -

“How H349 the city of praise has not been deserted,

The town of My joy!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 -

“How H349 the hammer of the whole earth

Has been cut off and broken!

How H349 Babylon has become

An object of horror among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41 -

“How H349 [fn]Sheshak has been captured,

And the praise of the whole earth has been seized!

How H349 Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!

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