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title: אֵיכֹה — where · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵיכֹה (351), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: where. BDB 1906: adv. interrog. In what manner exclam. How Where. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵיכֹה

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«אֵיכֹה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **where** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 351 · **BDB:** אֵיכָה

### Glosses

where? (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

where [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/351/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adv. interrog. In what manner exclam. How Where [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/351/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (from אַי and כָּה = כֹּה; cf. As. ekiam) adv. interrog. In what manner? τίνι τρόπῳ; (rather more definite than אֵיךְ = πῶς;) Dt 1:12; 7:17; 12:30; 18:21; 32:30 Ju 20:3 (indirect sentence) 2 K 6:15 Je 8:8 ψ 73:11. exclam. How! (slightly more emph. than אֵיךְ) Is 1:21 Je 48:17 La 1:1; 2:1; 4:1, 2. Where? (prob. north-Isr.; cf. Aramaic אֵיכָא, ܐܰܝܟܳܐ where? Cf. DrIntr. 178, 421) only 2 K 6:13 (K3 אֵיכֹה) Kt Ct 1:7(×2),—each time in an indirect sentence.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵיכֹה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/351/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 6:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.13/)

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וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לְכ֤וּ וּרְאוּ֙ אֵיכֹ֣ה ה֔וּא וְאֶשְׁלַ֖ח וְאֶקָּחֵ֑הוּ וַיֻּגַּד־ל֥וֹ לֵאמֹ֖ר הִנֵּ֥ה בְדֹתָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.said go and see where? \[is\].he so that.I.may.send and so that.I.may.capture.him and it.was.told to him (cmp) there! in Dothan

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'Go and see where he is, that I may send and fetch him.' And it was told him, saying: 'Behold, he is in Dothan.'

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