אַיֵּה
where
‘where’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Particle
- A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
Every verse where H346 appears in the Book of Zechariah — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Zechariah
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
איה — transliterated ʼayêh — is a Hebrew word carrying the sense “where.” It first appears in Genesis 18:9. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 40 verses — moderately common. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. Related forms include אי, אי and איך. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H346 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 40
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 40 distinct verses.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #783
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 783 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 40 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 40 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 25 verses · 63%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 25%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Are now 1×, Where 1×
- American Standard Version: Him 1×, Now 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Where 42×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Where 42×, Is 8×, Is he 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H346 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H346 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H346 across 44 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H346 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- where?
- of persons, things
- rhetorical
Word origin
(lengthened from אַי, cf. הֵן & הִנֵּה) interr.adv. Where? Gn 18:9; 19:5; 22:7; the most gen. term expressing this idea, used of both persons & things (but never with a verb [contrast אֵיפֹה]); often in poet. or elevated style, where the answer nowhere is expected, Is 33:18; 36:19; 51:13 Je 2:28 (cf. Dt 32:37 אֵי) 17:15; 37:19, Jb 15:23 he wandereth abroad for bread אַיֵּה (saying Where is it? 21:28 Zc 1:5 (אַיֵּה־הֵם); in the (iron.) phrase where is thy (their) God? †ψ 42:4, 11; 79:10; 115:2 (אַיֵּה־נָא) Jo 2:17; rhetorically, of an earnest inquiry Je 2:6, 8 Job 35:10, or longing Is 63:11, 15 Ju 6:13.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אי (ʼay) (H335) — where.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אַיָּה
- Ayah. Git. 35ᵃ א׳ מרי A. Mari, surname of one Aḥa b. Hidya.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 25 distinct written forms H346 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַיֵּ֖ה | Particle, Interrogative | Genesis 18:9 | 6 |
| אַיֵּ֣ה | Particle, Interrogative | Isaiah 33:18 | 5 |
| אַיֵּ֥ה | Particle, Interrogative | Ezekiel 13:12 | 5 |
| אַיֵּ֤ה | Particle, Interrogative | Isaiah 33:18 | 4 |
| אַיֵּ֗ה | Particle, Interrogative | 2 Samuel 17:20 | 2 |
| אַיֵּ֛ה | Particle, Interrogative | 2 Kings 18:34 | 2 |
| אַיֵּ֧ה | Particle, Interrogative | Genesis 19:5 | 2 |
| אַיֵּ֨ה | Particle, Interrogative | Judges 9:38 | 2 |
| אַיֵּה | Particle, Interrogative | Psalms 115:2 | 2 |
| וְ/אַיֵּ֖ה | Particle, Interrogative | 2 Samuel 16:3 | 2 |
| אַיּ֖/וֹ | Particle, Interrogative | Micah 7:10 | 1 |
| אַיֵּ֑ה | Particle, Interrogative | Job 15:23 | 1 |
| אַיֵּ֕ה | Particle, Interrogative | 2 Kings 2:14 | 1 |
| אַיֵּ֞ה | Particle, Interrogative | Isaiah 36:19 | 1 |
| אַיֵּ֪ה | Particle, Interrogative | Psalms 79:10 | 1 |
| אַיֵּה֙ | Particle, Interrogative | Nahum 2:11 | 1 |
| אַיֵּה֩ | Particle, Interrogative | 2 Kings 18:34 | 1 |
| וְ/אַיּ֑/וֹ | Particle, Interrogative | Exodus 2:20 | 1 |
| וְ/אַיֵּ֣ה | Particle, Interrogative | Judges 6:13 | 1 |
| וְ/אַיֵּ֤ה | Particle, Interrogative | Jeremiah 2:28 | 1 |
| וְ/אַיֵּ֥ה | Particle, Interrogative | Genesis 22:7 | 1 |
| וְ/אַיֵּה֙ | Particle, Interrogative | Jeremiah 37:19 | 1 |
| וְ/אַיּֽ/וֹ | Particle, Interrogative | Job 14:10 | 1 |
| וְ֝/אַיֵּ֗ה | Particle, Interrogative | Job 21:28 | 1 |
| וְ֭/אַיֵּה | Particle, Interrogative | Job 17:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H346, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 38 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 40 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 18:9
- Exodus 2:20
- Judges 6:13
- 2 Samuel 16:3
- 2 Kings 2:14
- Job 14:10
- Psalms 42:3
- Isaiah 33:18
- Jeremiah 2:6
- Lamentations 2:12
- Ezekiel 13:12
- Joel 2:17
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
