Where?
אַ֫יִןStrong’s H0370ayin (a-yin)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ayin is the Hebrew word usually translated “from where” and “from whence”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.”
Meaning
- Where?, whence?
How it's translated
- from where 11
- and from where 5
- from whence 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 3
- Job 3
- Genesis 2
- Joshua 2
- Judges 2
- Numbers 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 42:7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
- Numbers 11:13Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
- Joshua 2:4And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
- Joshua 9:8And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?
- Judges 17:9And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.
- Judges 19:17And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?
Hebrew dictionary
אַ֫יִן ayin · where?
where?, whence?
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.