There is
אִיתַיStrong’s H0383itay (i-tay)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Itay is the Aramaic word usually translated “there”, “are you” and “there it”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.”
Meaning
- There is, there are
- Particle denoting existence
How it's translated
- there 12
- are you 2
- there it 1
- you 1
- are we 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 14
- Ezra 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:11In contextAnd it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
- Daniel 2:26In contextThe king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?
- Daniel 2:28In contextBut there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
- Daniel 2:30In contextBut as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.
- Daniel 3:12In contextThere are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
- Daniel 3:14In contextNebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Aramaic dictionary
אִיתַי itay · there is
1) there is, there are 2) particle denoting existence
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “there” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THERE, adverb
- In that place.“The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed” Genesis 2:8
- It is sometimes opposed to here; there denoting the place most distant.
- Here and there in one place and another; as here a little and there a little.
- It is sometimes used by way of exclamation; calling the attention to something distant; as there there; see there; look there
All definitions
- there is used to begin sentences or before a verb; sometimes pertinently, and sometimes without signification; but its use is to firmly established that it cannot be dispensed with.“And there came a voice from heaven, saying, thou art my beloved Son” Mark 1:11
- In composition, there has the sense of a pronoun, as in Saxon; as thereby, which signifies by that.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.