Where?
אַיֵּהStrong’s H0346ayyeh (ay-yeh)
Appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ayyeh is the Hebrew word usually translated “where”. It appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament.
“Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?”
Meaning
- Where?of persons, things · rhetorical
How it's translated
- where 37
- and where 8
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 6
- Jeremiah 6
- Psalms 5
- Genesis 4
- Job 4
- Judges 2
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 18:9And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
- Genesis 19:5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
- Genesis 22:7And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
- Genesis 38:21Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
- Judges 6:13And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
- Judges 9:38Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.
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Hebrew dictionary
אַיֵּה ayyeh · where?
1) where? 1a) of persons, things 1b) rhetorical
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.