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Lexicon :: Strong's H5857 - ʿay

Aa
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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 - Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:3 - Then they came back to Joshua and said to him, Do not send all the people up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and make an attack on Ai; there is no need for all the people to be tired with the journey there, for it is only a small town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:4 - So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:5 - The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:1 - Then the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear and do not be troubled: take with you all the fighting-men and go up against Ai: for I have given into your hands the king of Ai and his people and his town and his land:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:3 - So Joshua and the fighting-men got ready to go up against Ai; and Joshua took thirty thousand men of war, and sent them out by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9 - So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:10 - And early in the morning Joshua got up, and put the people in order, and he and the chiefs of Israel went up before the people to Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - And all the fighting-men who were with him went up and came near the town, and took up a position on the north side of Ai facing the town, with a valley between him and the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - And taking about five thousand men, he put them in position for a surprise attack on the west side of Ai, between Beth-el and Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and went out to war against Israel, he and all his people, to the slope going down to the valley; but he had no idea that a secret force was waiting at the back of the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:16 - And all the people in Ai came together to go after them; and they went after Joshua, moving away from the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unwatched while they went after Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:18 - And the Lord said to Joshua, Let your spear be stretched out against Ai; for I will give it into your hands. So Joshua took up his spear, stretching it out in the direction of the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the town going up to heaven, and were unable to go this way or that: and the people who had gone in flight to the waste land were turned back on those who were coming after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had been taken by the surprise attack, and that the smoke of the town had gone up, turning round they overcame the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:23 - But the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in the field and in the waste land where they went after them, and when all the people had been put to death without mercy, all Israel went back to Ai, and put to death all who were in it without mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25 - On that day twelve thousand were put to death, men and women, all the people of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:26 - For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:28 - So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave them orders to take his body down from the tree, and put it in the public place of the town, covering it with a great mass of stones, which is there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:3 - And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - Now when it came to the ears of Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, that Joshua had taken Ai, and had given it up to the curse (for as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king); and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - He was in great fear, because Gibeon was a great town, like one of the king's towns, greater than Ai, and all the men in it were men of war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:9 - The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Beth-el, one;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:28 - The men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:32 - The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:31 - And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its daughter-towns,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:28 - He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 - Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests.
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