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Strong's #5857 - עַיָּת
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- Ai or Aija or Aiath or Hai = "heap of ruins"
- a city lying east of Bethel and beside Bethaven near Jericho and the second city taken on the invasion of Canaan
- a city of the Ammonites on the east of the Jordan and apparently attached to Heshbon
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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
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.”]