Strong's Hebrew · H370
H370 ʼayin
אַיִן
ah-yin'
where?
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ʼayin appears 16 times in Scripture, including Genesis 29:4 and Numbers 11:13. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
where? (only in connection with prepositional prefix, whence)
In the King James Version
whence, where.
Derivation
probably identical with H369 (אַיִן) in the sense of query (compare H336 (אִי))
Appears 16 times in Scripture
““Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.””
“He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?””
“But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.”
“And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.””
““Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.””
“Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’”
““We are your servants,” they said to Joshua. Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where have you come from?””
“When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?””
“Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.””
““My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
