TBESH · H0349A
אֵיךְ · ekh · how?
interrog adv how?
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ekh H349
אֵיךְ (ekh) means “how?” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
אֵיךְ Hebrew · H349 82 tagged occurrences in 74 verses
Pronunciation guide: ake Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H0349B
אֵיכָה · e.khah · how?
interrog adv 1) how? interj 2) how! (in lamentation) 3) expression of satisfaction
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TBESH · H0349C
אֵיכָ֫כָה · e.kha.khah · how?
how? Another spelling of ekh (אֵיךְ "how?" H0349A)
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
also אֵיכָה ; and אֵיכָכָה ; prolonged from H335 (אַי); how? or how!; also where
KJV glosses: how, what.
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How translators render H349
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| how | 55 |
| what | 5 |
| but how | 3 |
| so how | 3 |
| why | 3 |
| for how | 2 |
| how then | 2 |
| must i | 2 |
| where | 2 |
| alas | 1 |
| oh how | 1 |
| see how | 1 |
| then why | 1 |
| us how | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| how | 3 |
| for how | 2 |
| or how | 1 |
| than i how | 1 |
| unto him how | 1 |
| what | 1 |
| where | 1 |
Verses containing H349
Page 1 of 2. 74 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 26:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
Read word by word - Genesis 39:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
Read word by word - Genesis 44:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?
Read word by word - Genesis 44:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
Read word by word - Exodus 6:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
Read word by word - Exodus 6:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 1:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 7:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 12:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 18:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 32:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
Read word by word - Joshua 9:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”
Read word by word - Judges 16:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”
Read word by word - Judges 20:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
(Meanwhile the Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this wicked thing happen?”
Read word by word - Ruth 3:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 16:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 1:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 1:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 1:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 1:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 1:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 2:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Once again, Abner warned Asahel, “Stop chasing me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How could I show my face to your brother Joab?”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 6:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
That day David feared the LORD and asked, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 12:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 12:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 6:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, behold, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 10:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 18:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 10:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
Read word by word - Esther 8:6
· BSB · 2 occurrences
For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
Read word by word - Job 21:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
Read word by word - Psalms 11:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the choirmaster. Of David. In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
Read word by word - Psalms 73:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
Read word by word - Psalms 73:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
Read word by word - Psalms 137:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?
Read word by word - Proverbs 5:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 2:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 4:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone?
Read word by word - Song of Solomon 1:7
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
Read word by word - Song of Solomon 5:3
· BSB · 2 occurrences
I have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?
Read word by word - Isaiah 1:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!
Read word by word - Isaiah 14:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
Read word by word - Isaiah 14:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
Read word by word - Isaiah 19:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
Read word by word - Isaiah 20:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”
Read word by word - Isaiah 36:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
Read word by word - Isaiah 48:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 2:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 2:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
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