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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).
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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)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - So Abim'elech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, she is your wife; how then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:9 - he is not greater in this house than I am; nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife; how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - Behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan; how then should we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34 - For how can I go back to my father if the lad is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would come upon my father."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:12 - But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am a man of uncircumcised lips?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:30 - But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:12 - How can I bear alone the weight and burden of you and your strife?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:17 - "If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - take heed that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?--that I also may do likewise.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:21 - And if you say in your heart, 'How may we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?'--

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had given them up?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:7 - But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:15 - And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me wherein your great strength lies."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:3 - (Now the Benjaminites heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, "Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:18 - She replied, "Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest, but will settle the matter today."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:2 - And Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." And the LORD said, "Take a heifer with you, and say, 'I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:5 - Then David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:14 - David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:19 - "Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:25 - "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! "Jonathan lies slain upon thy high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:27 - "How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:22 - And Abner said again to As'ahel, "Turn aside from following me; why should I smite you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Jo'ab?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:9 - And David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, "How can the ark of the LORD come to me?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:18 - On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us; how then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:6 - Then King Rehobo'am took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, "How do you advise me to answer this people?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 - When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. And the servant said, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:4 - But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, "Behold, the two kings could not stand before him; how then can we stand?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:28 - So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Sama'ria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:24 - How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:6 - Then King Rehobo'am took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, "How do you advise me to answer this people?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:6 - For how can I endure to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 - How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:1 - To the choirmaster. Of David. In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to me, "Flee like a bird to the mountains;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:11 - And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 - How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:4 - How shall we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:12 - and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:16 - For of the wise man as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise man dies just like the fool!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:11 - Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone?

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:7 - Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who wanders beside the flocks of your companions?

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:3 - I had put off my garment, how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet, how could I soil them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - How the faithful city has become a harlot, she that was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:4 - you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12 - "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:11 - The princes of Zo'an are utterly foolish; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 - And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, 'Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:9 - How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:11 - For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:23 - How can you say, 'I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Ba'als'? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done--a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,

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