אֵיךְ
Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H349
Meaning
OpenScriptures lexical index
how? tree →
Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906
אֵיךְ: adv. interrog. How? as an exclam. How tree →
The whole BDB entry
(Aramaic אֵיךְ, ܐܰܝܟ [pron. âch]) adv. interrog. How? Gn 26:9 2 S 1:5, 14 1 K 12:6 Is 20:6 al.; of. with impf. (esp. in 1 ps.) in an expostulation Gn 39:9; 44:8, 34 Jos 9:7 2 S 2:22; 12:18 ψ 137:4, Is 48:11 for how should it be profaned? איך תאמר(ו) how canst or dost thou (do you) say …? Ju 16:15 Is 19:11 Je 2:23 (cf. 8:8 אֵיכָה) 48:14 ψ 11:1; in an indirect sentence 2 K 17:28 Je 36:17 Ru 3:18. as an exclam. How! whether of lamentation 2 S 1:19 Je 2:21; 9:18 Mi 2:4 Ec 2:16; or of satisfaction Is 14:4, 12 Je 48:39; 51:41 Ob 5 al.; with intensive force = how gladly! Je 3:19, how terribly! 9:6 (but others render here ‘for how [else] should I do’? etc.), Ho 11:8 acc. to Hi.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 34 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)
Glosses
MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: how? (38); how! (23).
In the verses
אֵ֚יךְ נֶחְפְּשׂ֣וּ עֵשָׂ֔ו נִבְע֖וּ מַצְפֻּנָֽיו׃
Word for word: how! they.will.be.plundered Esau they.will.be.searched.out treasures its.hidden
JPS 1917: How is Esau searched out! How are his hidden places sought out!
אֵ֚יךְ נָפְל֣וּ גִבּוֹרִ֔ים וַיֹּאבְד֖וּ כְּלֵ֥י מִלְחָמָֽה׃פ
Word for word: how! they.have.fallen [the].mighty.[ones] and they.have.perished [the].weapons of.war
JPS 1917: How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
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