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title: אֵיפֹה — what place? · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵיפֹה (375), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: what place?. BDB 1906: adv. where of what kind. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵיפֹה

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«אֵיפֹה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **what place?** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 10 times · **Key:** 375 · **BDB:** אֵיפֹה

### Glosses

where? (10)

### Meaning (OSHB)

what place? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/375/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adv. where of what kind [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/375/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (from אַי \& פֹּה here) adv. where? Gn 37:16 1 S 19:22 2 S 9:4 Is 49:21 Je 3:2 Jb 4:7; 38:4 Ru 2:19; in indirect sentence Je 36:19 (less common than אַיֵּה, used of persons \[contrast אֵי־זֶה\] and with a verb \[contrast אַיֵּה\]). of what kind? (qualis?) only Ju 8:18.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵיפֹה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/375/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 4:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.7/)

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זְכָר־נָ֗א מִ֤י ה֣וּא נָקִ֣י אָבָ֑ד וְ֝אֵיפֹ֗ה יְשָׁרִ֥ים נִכְחָֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* remember please who? that innocent did.he.perish and where? upright.\[people\] were.they.destroyed

*JPS 1917:* Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

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[Job 38:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.4/)

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אֵיפֹ֣ה הָ֭יִיתָ בְּיָסְדִי־אָ֑רֶץ הַ֝גֵּ֗ד אִם־יָדַ֥עְתָּ בִינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* where? were.you when founded I \[the\].earth tell if you.know understanding

*JPS 1917:* Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast the understanding.

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