How?
אֵיךְStrong’s H0349ekh
Appears in 74 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “how” and “where”. It appears in 74 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.”
Meaning
- Interrog adv
- How?
- How! (in lamentation)
- Expression of satisfaction
- How?
How it's translated
- how 61
- and how 19
- where 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 15
- 2 Samuel 8
- Isaiah 7
- Deuteronomy 5
- Genesis 4
- 2 Kings 4
25 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 39:9There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
- Genesis 44:8Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?
- Genesis 44:34For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
- Exodus 6:12And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
- Exodus 6:30And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
- Deuteronomy 1:12How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
All 74 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אֵיךְ ekh · how?
interrog adv how?
אֵיכָה ekhah · how?
interrog adv 1) how? interj 2) how! (in lamentation) 3) expression of satisfaction
אֵיכָ֫כָה ekhakhah · how?
how? Another spelling of ekh (אֵיךְ "how?" H0349A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “how” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HOW, adverb
In what manner. I know not how to answer.
- “HOW can these things be?” John 3:9
- To what degree or extent. how long shall we suffer these indignities? how much better is wisdom than gold!“O how love I thy law! how sweet are thy words to my taste” Psalms 119:103
- For what reason; from what cause.
- By what means. how can this effect by produced?
All definitions
- In what state.
- It is used in a sense marking proportion; as how much less; how much more.
- It is much used in exclamation.“HOW are the mighty fallen!” 2 Samuel 1:19
- In some popular phrases, how is superfluous or inelegant.
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.