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Strong's #349 - אֵיכָכָה
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- interrog adv
- how?
- interj
- how! (in lamentation)
- expression of satisfaction
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this Strong's Number
1010) ia (אי AY) AC: ? CO: Place AB: Where: The pictograph i , replacing the e , is the hand and adds the idea of pointing to a place. This root is closely related to the root ea.
A) ia (אי AY) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Where: A search for an unknown location.
Nm) ia (אי AY) - I. Where: II. Iy:An unknown animal. KJV (20): where, what, whence, beast - Strongs: H335 (אֵי), H336 (אִי), H338 (אִי)
G) iea (אהי AHY) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Where: A search for an unknown location.
Nm) iea (אהי AHY) - Where: KJV (3): will - Strongs: H165 (אֱהִי)
H) eia (איה AYH) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Where: A search for an unknown location.
Nm) eia (איה AYH) - Where: [df: Kyh Kya hwkya] KJV (15): where, how, what - Strongs: H346 (אַיֵּה), H349 (אֵיכָכָה), H351 (אֵיכֹה), H1963 (הֵיךְ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
[pronounced âch]) adverb 1. interrogative How? Genesis 26:9; 2 Samuel 1:5,14; 1 Kings 12:6; Isaiah 20:6 and elsewhere; often with imperfect (especially in 1person) in an expostulation Genesis 39:9; Genesis 44:8,34; Joshua 9:7; 2 Samuel 2:22; 2 Samuel 12:18; Psalm 137:4; Isaiah 48:11 for how should it be profaned ? איך תאמר(וׅ how canst or dost thou (do you) say . . . ? Judges 16:15; Isaiah 19:11; Jeremiah 2:23 (compare Jeremiah 8:8 אֵיכָה) Jeremiah 48:14; Psalm 11:1; in an indirect sentence 2 Kings 17:28; Jeremiah 36:17; Ruth 3:18.
2. as an exclamation How! whether of lamentation 2 Samuel 1:19; Jeremiah 2:21; Jeremiah 9:18; Micah 2:4; or of satisfaction Isaiah 14:4,12; Jeremiah 48:39; Jeremiah 51:41; Obadiah 5 and elsewhere; with intensive force = how gladly! Jeremiah 3:19, how terribly! Jeremiah 9:6 (but others render here 'for how [else] should I do'? etc.) ** Hosea 11:8 according to Hi Ke We Marti and others.
אֵיכָה (from אַי and כָּה = כֹּה; compare Assyrian ekiam)
adverb 1. interrogative In what manner? τίνι τρόπῳ; (rather more definite than אֵיח = πῶς); Deuteronomy 1:12; Deuteronomy 7:17; Deuteronomy 12:30; Deuteronomy 18:21; Deuteronomy 32:30; Judges 20:3 (indirect sentence) 2 Kings 6:15; Jeremiah 8:8; Psalm 73:11.
2 exclamation How! (slightly more emphatic than אֵיח) Isaiah 1:21; Jeremiah 48:17; Lamentations 1:1; Lamentations 2:1; Lamentations 4:1,2.
3 Where? (properly north-Israel; compare Aramaic אֵיכָא, 
where ? compare Dr Intr. 178,421) only 2 Kings 6:13 Kt Song of Solomon 1:7 (twice in verse), — each time in an indirect sentence.
אֵיכָ֫כָה (Canticles) ֵאיכָכָ֫ה (Esther) (from אַי & כָּ֫כָה thus)
How? only Song of Solomon 5:3 (twice in verse); Esther 8:6 (twice in verse).
אֵיכָכָה (Milêl), how? Song of Solomon 5:3; Esther 8:6 from אֵי and כָּכָה = כָּה, כֹּה so.
