TBESH · H5857G
עַי · ay · Ai
§ Ai or Aija or Aiath or Hai = "heap of ruins" a city lying east of Bethel and beside Bethaven near Jericho and the second city taken on the invasion of Canaan
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ay H5857
עַי (ay) means “Ai” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
עַי Hebrew · H5857 40 tagged occurrences in 34 verses
Pronunciation guide: ah'ee Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H5857H
עַי · ay · Ai
§ Ai or Aija or Aiath or Hai = "heap of ruins" a city of the Ammonites on the east of the Jordan and apparently attached to Heshbon
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or (feminine) עַיָּא; (Nehemiah 11:31), or עַיָּת; (Isaiah 10:28), for H5856 (עִי); Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine
KJV glosses: Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.
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How translators render H5857
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 |
|---|---|
| ai | 13 |
| of ai | 12 |
| and ai | 4 |
| to ai | 3 |
| in ai | 2 |
| aiath | 1 |
| aija | 1 |
| and the city | 1 |
| of it | 1 |
| up to ai | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of ai | 14 |
| to ai | 5 |
| ai | 4 |
| and ai | 4 |
| and hai | 2 |
| in ai | 2 |
| against ai | 1 |
| and aija | 1 |
| and to ai | 1 |
| between them and ai | 1 |
| for ai | 1 |
| of the city | 1 |
| than ai | 1 |
| to aiath | 1 |
| toward ai | 1 |
| unto ai | 1 |
Verses containing H5857
Page 1 of 1. 34 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 12:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
Read word by word - Genesis 13:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,
Read word by word - Joshua 7:2
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
Read word by word - Joshua 7:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”
Read word by word - Joshua 7:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.
Read word by word - Joshua 7:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:1
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”
Read word by word - Joshua 8:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night
Read word by word - Joshua 8:9
· BSB · 2 occurrences
So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Joshua got up early the next morning and mobilized his men, and he and the elders of Israel marched before them up to Ai.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:11
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then all the troops who were with him marched up and approached the city. They arrived in front of Ai and camped to the north of it, with the valley between them and the city.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then all the men of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they followed Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai,
Read word by word - Joshua 8:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now turned against their pursuers.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:24
· BSB · 2 occurrences
When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Joshua did not draw back the hand that held his battle lance until he had devoted to destruction all who lived in Ai.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.
Read word by word - Joshua 9:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
Read word by word - Joshua 10:1
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.
Read word by word - Joshua 10:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
Read word by word - Joshua 12:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;
Read word by word - Ezra 2:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the men of Bethel and Ai, 223;
Read word by word - Nehemiah 7:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the men of Bethel and Ai, 123;
Read word by word - Nehemiah 11:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;
Read word by word - Isaiah 10:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 49:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
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