There is
אִיתַיStrong’s H3426itay (i-tay)
Appears in 130 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Itay is the Hebrew word usually translated “there”, “there you” and “there is”. It appears in 130 verses of the Old Testament.
“Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?”
Meaning
- There is, there are
- Particle denoting existence
How it's translated
- there 105
- and there 17
- there you 5
- there is 4
- there he 2
- there it 2
- and there is 2
- is it 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 20
- Proverbs 13
- Ecclesiastes 13
- Job 12
- 1 Samuel 10
- Jeremiah 9
25 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 23:8And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
- Genesis 24:23And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father’s house for us to lodge in?
- Genesis 24:42And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
- Genesis 24:49And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
- Genesis 28:16And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
- Genesis 31:29It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
All 130 verses, by book
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.