Where?
אַיStrong’s H0335ay
Appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ay is the Hebrew word usually translated “where”, “where he” and “where they”. It appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?”
Meaning
- Whereto ?, whence?
- Which?, how? (in prefix with other adverb)
How it's translated
- where 25
- and where 6
- where he 3
- and where he 2
- where they 2
- where you 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 7
- 1 Samuel 4
- Genesis 3
- 2 Samuel 3
- Isaiah 3
- 1 Kings 2
18 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 4:9And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?
- Genesis 16:8And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
- Exodus 2:20And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
- Deuteronomy 32:37And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
- Judges 13:6Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
- 1 Samuel 9:18Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer’s house is.
All 37 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אַי ay · where?
1) whereto ?, whence? 2) which?, how? (in prefix with other adverb)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “where” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHERE, adverb
- At which place or places.“In all places where I record my name, I will come to thee and I will bless thee” Exodus 20:24
- At or in what place.“Adam, where art thou?” Genesis 3:9
- At the place in which.
- Whither; to what place, or from what place. where are you going? where are you from? [These uses of where are common, and the first cannot be condemned as vulgar.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.