Lexicon entry · Hebrew
H0370אַ֫יִןa.yin
where?Part of speech: Hebrew Interogative
Show inJPS Tanakh 1917
Occurrences by book
- 2
- Exodus: 0
- Leviticus: 0
- 1
- Deuteronomy: 0
- 2
- 2
- Ruth: 0
- 1 Samuel: 0
- 2 Samuel: 0
- 1 Kings: 0
- 3
- 1 Chronicles: 0
- 2 Chronicles: 0
- Ezra: 0
- Nehemiah: 0
- Esther: 0
- 3
- 1
- Proverbs: 0
- Ecclesiastes: 0
- Song of Songs: 0
- 1
- Jeremiah: 0
- Lamentations: 0
- Ezekiel: 0
- Daniel: 0
- Hosea: 0
- Joel: 0
- Amos: 0
- Obadiah: 0
- 1
- Micah: 0
- 1
- Habakkuk: 0
- Zephaniah: 0
- Haggai: 0
- Zechariah: 0
- Malachi: 0
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17 occurrences in 17 verses
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And Jacob said unto them: 'My brethren, whence are ye?' And they said: 'Of Haran are we.'
מֵאַ֣יִן (אַ֣יִן) 'A.yin “where?”
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly with them; and he said unto them: 'Whence come ye?' And they said: 'From the land of Canaan to buy food.'
מֵאַ֣יִן (אַ֣יִן) 'A.yin “where?”
Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they trouble me with their weeping, saying: Give us flesh, that we may eat.
מֵאַ֤יִן (אַ֤יִן) 'A.yin “where?”
And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said: 'Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were;
מֵאַ֥יִן (אַ֥יִן) 'A.yin “where”
And they said unto Joshua: 'We are thy servants.' And Joshua said unto them: 'Who are ye? and from whence come ye?'
וּמֵאַ֥יִן (אַ֥יִן) 'A.yin “where?”
And Micah said unto him: 'Whence comest thou?' And he said unto him: 'I am a Levite of Beth-lehem in Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.'
מֵאַ֣יִן (אַ֣יִן) 'A.yin “where?”
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the broad place of the city; and the old man said: 'Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?'
וּמֵאַ֥יִן (אַ֥יִן) 'A.yin “where?”
But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him: 'Whence comest thou, Gehazi?' And he said: 'Thy servant went no whither.'
מֵאַ֖יִן (אַ֖יִן) 'an “whence?”
And he said: 'If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the threshingfloor, or out of the winepress?'
מֵאַ֖יִן (אַ֖יִן) 'A.yin “where?”
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him: 'What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?' And Hezekiah said: `They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.'
וּמֵאַ֙יִן֙ (אַ֙יִן֙) 'A.yin “where?”
And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Whence comest thou?' Then Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.'
מֵאַ֣יִן (אַ֣יִן) 'A.yin “where?”
But wisdom, where shall it be found? And where is the place of understanding?
מֵאַ֣יִן (אַ֣יִן) 'A.yin “where?”
Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
מֵאַ֣יִן (אַ֣יִן) 'A.yin “where?”
A Song of Ascents. I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: from whence shall my help come?
מֵ֝אַ֗יִן (אַ֗יִן) 'A.yin “where?”
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him: 'What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?' And Hezekiah said: 'They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.'
וּמֵאַ֙יִן֙ (אַ֙יִן֙) 'A.yin “where?”
Then said they unto him: 'Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us: what is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?'
וּמֵאַ֣יִן (אַ֣יִן) 'A.yin “where?”
And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say: 'Nineveh is laid waste; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?'
מֵאַ֛יִן (אַ֛יִן) 'A.yin “where?”