TBESH · H0349A
אֵיךְ · ekh · how?
interrog adv how?
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אֵיךְ (ekh) means “how?” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: ake Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
אֵיךְ · ekh · how?
interrog adv how?
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אֵיכָה · e.khah · how?
interrog adv 1) how? interj 2) how! (in lamentation) 3) expression of satisfaction
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אֵיכָ֫כָה · e.kha.khah · how?
how? Another spelling of ekh (אֵיךְ "how?" H0349A)
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also אֵיכָה ; and אֵיכָכָה ; prolonged from H335 (אַי); how? or how!; also where
KJV glosses: how, what.
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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 |
Page 2 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.
Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
Read word by wordHow can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.6
For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.18
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
Read word by word“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”
Read word by wordHow can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”
Read word by wordHow can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?
Read word by wordMourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!
Read word by word“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”
Read word by wordHow is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
Read word by wordHow the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
Read word by wordHow Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
Read word by wordHow lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
Read word by wordHow the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
Read word by wordHow the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
Read word by wordHow the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
Read word by wordThen they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!
Read word by wordNow as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’
Read word by wordHow could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
Read word by word“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
Read word by wordBut how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
Read word by wordIn that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
Read word by wordThis carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
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