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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 · H0349A

אֵיךְ · ekh · how?

interrog adv how?

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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.

BSB rendering counts
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
KJV rendering counts
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 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.

  1. Jeremiah 3:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  2. Jeremiah 8:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    How 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?

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  3. Jeremiah 9:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore 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?

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    Source alternate reference: 9.6

  4. Jeremiah 9:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’”

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    Source alternate reference: 9.18

  5. Jeremiah 12:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “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?

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  6. Jeremiah 36:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”

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  7. Jeremiah 47:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”

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  8. Jeremiah 48:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?

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  9. Jeremiah 48:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!

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  10. Jeremiah 48:39 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “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.”

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  11. Jeremiah 49:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?

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  12. Jeremiah 50:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

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  13. Jeremiah 51:41 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

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  14. Lamentations 1:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    How 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.

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  15. Lamentations 2:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    How 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.

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  16. Lamentations 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.

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  17. Lamentations 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    How 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!

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  18. Ezekiel 26:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then 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!

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  19. Ezekiel 33:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now 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?’

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  20. Hosea 11:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    How 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!

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  21. Obadiah 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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?

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  22. Obadiah 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!

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  23. Micah 2:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In 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.’”

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  24. Zephaniah 2:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This 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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