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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 moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 - Now 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.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:3 - And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not weary all the people there, for the people of Ai are few.”

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:5 - And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six men, for they chased them from before the gate as far as Shebarim, and struck them down on the descent; therefore the hearts of the people melted and became like water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:1 - Now the LORD said to Joshua: “Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - “And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay 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 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 out; and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel 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 - Then Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - And all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near; and they came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai. Now a valley lay between them and Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:14

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:16 - So all the people who 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 Box Jos 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. So they left the city open and pursued Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:18 - Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the spear that was in his hand toward the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:20

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. So they had no power to flee this way or that way, and the people who had fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - Now when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:23 - But 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 where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25 - So it was that all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand—all the people of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:26 - For Joshua did not draw back his hand, 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 - So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:29

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 corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:3

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - Now it came to pass when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it—as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king—and how 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, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because 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, one hundred and twenty-three;

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 11:31

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:28 - He has come to Aiath,
He has passed Migron;
At Michmash he has attended to his equipment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 - “Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is plundered!
Cry, you daughters of Rabbah,
Gird yourselves with sackcloth!
Lament and run to and fro by the walls;
For Milcom shall go into captivity
With his priests and his princes together.
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