עַי
ʻAy · ah'ee
Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: or (feminine) עַיָּא; (Nehemiah 11:31), or עַיָּת; (Isaiah 10:28), for H5856 (עִי);
Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the hand that works
To see and know of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עַי above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
40 occurrences · 40 OT · 0 NT · 23 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of ai14 · 34%
- to ai5 · 12%
- ai4 · 10%
- and ai4 · 10%
- and hai2 · 5%
- against ai1 · 2%
- between them and ai1 · 2%
- of the city1 · 2%
- that were in ai1 · 2%
- in ai1 · 2%
- toward ai1 · 2%
- unto ai1 · 2%
- and to ai1 · 2%
- than ai1 · 2%
- and aija1 · 2%
- to aiath1 · 2%
- for ai1 · 2%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.