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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 Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:9 - No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found inside the mouths of our sacks. So why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34 - How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:12 - But Moses said to the LORD, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips[fn]?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:30 - But Moses said to the LORD, “Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:12 - But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:17 - You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:21 - You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:30

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:7 - The Israelites said to the Hivites, “But perhaps you live near us, so how can we make a treaty with you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:15 - Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:3 - (The Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the Israelites said, “Tell us how this awful thing happened.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:18 - Then Naomi said, “Wait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:2 - But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me.” 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 brought him the report, “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 asked him, “Why weren’t you afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:19 - “A gazelle[fn] lies slain on your heights, Israel. How the mighty have fallen!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:25 - “How the mighty have fallen in battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:27

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:22 - Again Abner warned Asahel, “Stop chasing me! Why should I strike you down? How could I look your brother Joab in the face?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:9 - David was afraid of the LORD that day and said, “How can the ark of the LORD ever 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. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, he wouldn’t listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:6 - Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 - When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. “Oh no, my lord! What shall we do?” the servant asked.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:4 - But they were terrified and said, “If two kings could not resist him, how can we?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:28 - So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria came to live in Bethel and taught them how to worship the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:24 - How can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen[fn]?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 10:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:6 - Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:6 - For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 - “So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:1 - For the director of music. Of David. In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:11 - They say, “How would God know? Does the Most High know anything?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:19 - How suddenly are they destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:4 - How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:12 - You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:16 - For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered; the days have already come when both have been forgotten. Like the fool, the wise too must die!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:11 - Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:7 - Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends?

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:3 - I have taken off my robe— must I put it on again? I have washed my feet— must I soil them again?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell 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 come to an end! How his fury[fn] has ended!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12 - How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:11 - The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings”?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 - In that day the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:9 - How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen[fn]?

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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 this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, 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 run after the Baals’? See how you behaved in the valley; consider what you have done. You are a swift she-camel running here and there,

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