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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 - Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai H5857 on the east; and there he built an altar to Yahweh and called upon the name of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And he went [fn]on his journeys from the [fn]Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai H5857,

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Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai H5857, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “[fn]Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai H5857.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:3 - Then they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up; only about two or three thousand men need go up to strike down Ai H5857; do not have all the people toil up there, for they are few.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:4 - So about three thousand men from the people went up there, but they fled [fn]from the men of Ai H5857.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:5 - And the men of Ai H5857 struck down about thirty-six of their men and pursued them [fn]from the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them down on the descent, so the hearts of the people melted and became as water.

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Now Yahweh said to Joshua, “Do not fear or be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai H5857; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai H5857, his people, his city, and his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - “So you shall do to Ai H5857 and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoil and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. [fn]Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

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So Joshua rose with all the people of war to go up to Ai H5857; and Joshua chose 30,000 men, valiant warriors, and sent them out at night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9 - So Joshua sent them away, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai H5857, on the west side of Ai H5857; but Joshua spent that night among the people.

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Now Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up with the elders of Israel before the people to Ai H5857.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - Then all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near and arrived in front of the city and camped on the north side of Ai H5857. Now there was a valley between him and Ai H5857.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - And he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai H5857, on the west side of the [fn]city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - Now it happened that when the king of Ai H5857 saw it, the men of the city hurried and rose up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:16 - And all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - So not a man remained in Ai H5857 or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they forsook the city, leaving it open, and pursued Israel.

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Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai H5857, for I will give it into your hand.” So Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - Then the men of Ai H5857 turned [fn]back and looked, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - But Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city ascended. So they turned back and struck down the men of Ai H5857.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:23 - But they seized the king of Ai H5857 alive and brought him to Joshua.

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Now it happened that when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai H5857 in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them fell by the edge of the sword until they were completely destroyed, then all Israel turned back to Ai H5857 and struck it with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25 - So all who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000—all the [fn]people of Ai H5857.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:26 - For Joshua did not withdraw his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted to destruction all the inhabitants of Ai H5857.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:28 - So Joshua burned Ai H5857 and made it a heap forever, a desolation until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And he hanged the king of Ai H5857 on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave a command, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city gate and raised over it a great heap of stones that stands to this day.

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Now the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai H5857.

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Now it happened that when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai H5857 and had devoted it to destruction (just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai H5857 and its king), and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were [fn]within their land,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - they feared exceedingly because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai H5857, and all its men were mighty.

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the king of Jericho, one;

the king of Ai H5857, which is beside Bethel, one;

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the men of Bethel and Ai H5857, 223;

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the men of Bethel and Ai H5857, 123;

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The sons of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija H5857, at Bethel and its towns,

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He has come against Aiath H5857,

He has passed through Migron;

At Michmash he deposited his baggage.

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“Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai H5857 has been destroyed!

Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah,

Gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament,

And rush back and forth inside the walls;

For [fn]Malcam will go into exile

Together with his priests and his princes.

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