Where?
אָןStrong’s H0575an
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
An is the Hebrew word usually translated “where” and “when”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.”
Meaning
- Where?, whither? (of place)
- When?, until when?, how long? (of time)
How it's translated
- where 19
- when 14
- and where 8
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Genesis 3
- Job 3
- Joshua 2
- 2 Samuel 2
- 1 Kings 2
20 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 5:10In contextThen said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
- 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.
- Genesis 32:17And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
- Genesis 37:30And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?
- Exodus 16:28And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
- Numbers 14:11And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
All 33 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אָן an · where?
1) where?, whither? (of place) 2) when?, until when?, how long? (of time)
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.