How?
הֵיךְStrong’s H1963hekh
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Hekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “how”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.”
Meaning
- How
How it's translated
- how 1
- and how 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
הֵיךְ hekh · how?
how
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.