Strong's Concordance ayin: whence? Original Word: מֵאַ֫יִןPart of Speech: adverb Transliteration: ayin Phonetic Spelling: (ah-yin') Short Definition: where Brown-Driver-Briggs I. [אַ֫יִן] adverb (from אַי; Assyrian aina, ainu, Arabic where? whence?) only in the compound מֵאַ֫יִן17 whence? Genesis 29:4; Genesis 42:7 (synonym אֵימִֿזֶּה e.g. Genesis 16:8; 1 Samuel 30:13) Judges 17:9; Judges 19:17; Job 1:7 (Job 2:2 אֵימִֿזֶּה); used in a rhetorical or poetic style (where אֵימִֿזֶּה would be too prosaic) Numbers 11:13 מֵאַיִן לִי בָּשָׂר whence have I flesh etc. ? 2 Kings 6:27; Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great; מֵאַיִן כָּמוֺהוּ whence is its like ? (see also II. אַיִן near the end) Nahum 3:7; Psalm 121:1; Job 28:12,20; in an indirect sentence Joshua 2:4 (compare אֵימִֿזֶּה 1 Samuel 25:11). I. [אַ֫יִן], מֵאַ֫יִן whence? see below אַי Strong's Exhaustive Concordance whence, where Probably identical with 'ayin in the sense of query (compare 'iy); --where? (only in connection with prepositional prefix, whence) -- whence, where. see HEBREW 'ayin see HEBREW 'iy Forms and Transliterations וּמֵאַ֙יִן֙ וּמֵאַ֣יִן וּמֵאַ֥יִן ומאין מֵ֝אַ֗יִן מֵאַ֖יִן מֵאַ֛יִן מֵאַ֣יִן מֵאַ֤יִן מֵאַ֥יִן מאין mê’ayin mê·’a·yin meAyin ū·mê·’a·yin ūmê’ayin umeAyinLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 37016 Occurrences mê·’a·yin — 11 Occ. ū·mê·’a·yin — 5 Occ. Genesis 29:4 HEB: יַעֲקֹ֔ב אַחַ֖י מֵאַ֣יִן אַתֶּ֑ם וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ NAS: to them, My brothers, where are you from? And they said, KJV: unto them, My brethren, whence [be] ye? And they said, INT: Jacob my brothers where and they said Genesis 42:7 Numbers 11:13 Joshua 2:4 Joshua 9:8 Judges 17:9 Judges 19:17 2 Kings 6:27 2 Kings 20:14 Job 1:7 Job 28:12 Job 28:20 Psalm 121:1 Isaiah 39:3 Jonah 1:8 Nahum 3:7 |