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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 BoxGen 12:8 - Thence he removed to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and 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 journeyed on from the Negeb 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 BoxJos 7:2 - Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-a'ven, east of Bethel, and said to them, "Go up and spy out the land." And the men went up and spied out 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 attack Ai; do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are but few."

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:5 - and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six men of them, and chased them before the gate as far as Sheb'arim, and slew them at the descent. And 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, "Do not fear or be dismayed; take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and 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 against the city, behind it."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:3 - So Joshua arose, and all the fighting men, to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9 - So Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the place of ambush, and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:10 - And Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, with the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - And all the fighting men who were with him went up, and drew near before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - And when the king of Ai saw this he and all his people, the men of the city, made haste and went out early to the descent toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle; 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 the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn away from the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, who did not go out after Israel; 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 javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand." And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:21

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 went up, then they turned back and smote 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 - When Israel had finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:26 - For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, 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 for ever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - When Ado'ni-ze'dek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its 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 - he 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, a hundred and twenty-three.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:31 - The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Ai'ja, Bethel and its villages,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:28 - he has come to Ai'ath; he has passed through Migron, at Michmash he stores his baggage;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 - "Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry, O daughters of Rabbah! Gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his princes.
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