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HebrewH5857Noun

עַי

ay

34Occurrences
H5857Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine

or (feminine) עַיָּא; (Nehemiah 11:31), or עַיָּת; (Isaiah 10:28), for H5856 (עִי);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ 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

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

עַי appears 34 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
27
Genesis
2
Nehemiah
2
Ezra
1
Isaiah
1
Jeremiah
1

Key Passages

Ezra 2:28BSB

the men of Bethel and Ai, 223;

Joshua 10:2BSB

So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

Joshua 8:1BSB

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.

Joshua 8:12BSB

Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Joshua 8:21BSB

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.