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Strong's #5857 - עַיָּת

Transliteration
ʻAy
Phonetics
ah'ee, ah-yaw', ah-yawth'
Origin
for (H5856)
Parts of Speech
proper locative noun
TWOT
None
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

  1. Ai or Aija or Aiath or Hai = "heap of ruins"
    1. a city lying east of Bethel and beside Bethaven near Jericho and the second city taken on the invasion of Canaan
    2. a city of the Ammonites on the east of the Jordan and apparently attached to Heshbon

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
ASV (41)
Genesis 2
Joshua 34
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 2
Isaiah 1
Jeremiah 1
BSB (39)
Genesis 2
Joshua 32
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 2
Isaiah 1
Jeremiah 1
CSB (38)
Genesis 2
Joshua 33
1 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 2
Isaiah 1
Jeremiah 1
ESV (40)
Genesis 2
Joshua 34
1 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 2
Isaiah 1
Jeremiah 1
KJV (41)
Genesis 2
Joshua 34
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 2
Isaiah 1
Jeremiah 1
LEB (39)
Genesis 2
Joshua 32
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 2
Isaiah 1
Jeremiah 1
LSB (40)
Genesis 2
Joshua 32
1 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 2
Isaiah 1
Jeremiah 1
N95 (40)
Genesis 2
Joshua 32
1 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 2
Isaiah 1
Jeremiah 1
NAS (40)
Genesis 2
Joshua 32
1 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 2
Isaiah 1
Jeremiah 1
NLT (0)
The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number
WEB (41)
Genesis 2
Joshua 34
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 2
Isaiah 1
Jeremiah 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 עַי, עַיָּ֑ת, עַיָּה40

proper name, of a location Αγγαι (Genesis), Γαι:

1 old Canaanite city, עַי always with article הָעַי (הָעָ֑י Genesis 13:3 +), near Bethel to the southeast (exact site unknown, compare Di Joshua 7:2 Buhl Geogr. 177), Genesis 12:8 (J), Genesis 13:3 (J), Joshua 7:2 (twice in verse); Joshua 7:3,4,5; Joshua 8:1 (twice in verse); Joshua 8:2,318t. Joshua 8 (+ Qr Joshua 8:12; Joshua 8:16, but improbable, Kt עיר, compare Di), Joshua 9:3; Joshua 10:1 (twice in verse); Joshua 10:2 (all J E), Joshua 12:9 (D), Ezra 2:28 = Nehemiah 7:32; = עַיָּת Isaiah 10:28; עַיָּה (so Baer Ginsb, > עַיָּא van d. H.) Nehemiah 11:31, so read also (for עַזָּה q. v. near the end) 1 Chronicles 7:28.

2 east Jordan city Jeremiah 49:3 (+ חֶשְׁבוֺן), but read עָר city (?) Gf Rothst Kau Co (הָעִיר ?).

עִי see I. עוה. עַיָּא see עַי. עיב see עוב.

עֵיבָל see עוֺבָל below עבל. עַיָּה see עַי. p. 716, above


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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

עַיָּת pr.n. see עַי.

[“עָכַב a root unused as a verb, which appears to have signified agility and alacrity; hence the quadriliterals עַכְבָּר, עַכְבּוֹר, עַכָּבִישׁ.”]


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List of Word Forms
בָּעַי֙ בעי הָעַ֔י הָעַ֖י הָעַ֗י הָעַ֛י הָעַ֜י הָעַ֞י הָעַ֨י הָעַי֙ הָעַי֮ הָעָ֑י הָעָֽי׃ העי העי׃ וְהָעַ֣י וְהָעָ֔י וְלָעָֽי׃ וְעַיָּ֔ה והעי ולעי׃ ועיה לָעַ֔י לָעַ֖י לָעַ֜י לָעָ֑י לעי עַ֗י עַיַּ֖ת עי עית ‘ay ‘ay·yaṯ ‘ayyaṯ Ai aiYat bā‘ay bā·‘ay baAi hā‘ay hā‘āy hā·‘ay hā·‘āy haAi lā‘ay lā‘āy lā·‘ay lā·‘āy laAi veaiYah vehaAi velaAi wə‘ayyāh wə·‘ay·yāh wə·hā·‘ay wə·hā·‘āy wə·lā·‘āy wəhā‘ay wəhā‘āy wəlā‘āy
 
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