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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 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 - Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, certainly she is your wife! How H349 then did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘I might die on account of her.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:9 - “[fn]There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How H349 then could I do this great evil and sin against God?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - “Behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks we have brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How H349 then could we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34 - “For how H349 shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me—for fear that I see the evil that would [fn]overtake my father?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:12 - But Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, “Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how H349 then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am [fn]unskilled in speech?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:30 - But Moses said before the LORD, “Behold, I am [fn]unskilled in speech; how H349 then will Pharaoh listen to me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:17 - “If you should 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 - beware that you are not ensnared [fn]to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How do 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 - “[fn]You may say in your heart, ‘How will 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 could 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 - The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you are living [fn]within our land; how H349 then shall we make a covenant with you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:15 - Then she said to him, “How H349 can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have deceived me these three times and have not told me where your great strength is.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:3 - (Now the sons of Benjamin heard that the sons of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the sons of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wickedness take place?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:18 - Then she said, “Wait, my daughter, until you know how H349 the matter [fn]turns out; for the man will not rest until he has [fn]settled it today.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:2 - But Samuel said, “How H349 can I go? When Saul hears of 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 - So David said to the young man who told him, “How H349 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 - Then David said to him, “How H349 is it you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the LORD’S anointed?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:19 - “[fn]Your beauty, O Israel, is slain on your high places!
How H349 have the mighty fallen!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:25 - “How H349 have the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!
Jonathan is slain on your high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:27 - “How H349 have the mighty fallen,
And the weapons of war perished!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:22 - Abner repeated again to Asahel, “Turn [fn]aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How H349 then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:9 - So David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, “How H349 can the ark of the LORD come to me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:18 - Then it happened on the seventh day that the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was still alive, we spoke to him and he did not listen to our voice. How H349 then can we tell him that the child is dead, since he might do himself harm!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:6 - King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had [fn]served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How H349 do you counsel me to answer this people?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 - Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city. And his servant said to him, “Alas, my master! [fn]What shall we do?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:4 - But they feared greatly and said, “Behold, the two kings did not stand before him; how H349 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 into exile from Samaria came and lived at Bethel, and taught them how H349 they should fear the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:24 - “How H349 then can you [fn]repulse one [fn]official of the least of my master’s servants, and [fn]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 Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had [fn]served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How H349 do you counsel me to answer this people?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:6 - “For how H349 can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how H349 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 H349 then will you vainly comfort me,
For your answers remain full of [fn]falsehood?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:1 - For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
In the LORD I take refuge;
How H349 can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:11 - They say, “How does God know?
And is there knowledge [fn]with the Most High?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 - How H349 they are [fn]destroyed in a moment!
They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:4 - How H349 can 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 H349 I have hated instruction!
And my heart spurned reproof!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:16 - For there is no [fn]lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how H349 the wise man and the fool alike die!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:11 - Furthermore, if two lie down together they [fn]keep warm, but how H349 can one be warm alone?

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:7 - “Tell me, O you whom my soul loves,
Where do you pasture your flock,
Where do you make it lie down at noon?
For why should I be like one who [fn]veils herself
Beside the flocks of your companions?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:3 - “I have taken off my dress,
How H349 can I put it on again?
I have washed my feet,
How H349 can I dirty them again?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:21

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:4 - that you will take up this [fn]taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,
“How H349 the oppressor has ceased,
And how [fn]fury has ceased!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12 - “How H349 you have fallen from heaven,
O [fn]star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who have weakened the nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:11 - The princes of [fn]Zoan are mere fools;
The advice of Pharaoh’s wisest advisers has become [fn]stupid.
How H349 can you men 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 - “So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, how H349 shall we escape?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:9 - “How H349 then can you [fn]repulse one [fn]official of the least of my master’s servants and [fn]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 will act;
For how H349 can My name be profaned?
And 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,
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 Box Jer 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 entangling her ways,

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