hebrew #349 - אֵיךְ ek (how?)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Also eykah {ay-kaw'}; and teykakah {ay-kaw'-kah}; prolonged from 'ay; how? Or how!; also where -- how, what.

see HEBREW 'ay

Englishman's Concordance

Brown-Driver-Briggs

adverb 1. interrogativeHow?Genesis 26:9; 2 Samuel 1:5,14; 1 Kings 12:6; Isaiah 20:6 and elsewhere; often with imperfect (especially in 1 person) in an expostulation Genesis 39:9; Genesis 44:8,34; Joshua 9:7; 2 Samuel 2:22; 2 Samuel 12:18; Psalm 137:4; Isaiah 48:11 for howshould it be profaned ? איך תאמר(וׅhow canst or dost thou (do you) say . . . ? Judges 16:15; Isaiah 19:11; Jeremiah 2:23 (compare Jeremiah 8:8אֵיכָה) Jeremiah 48:14; Psalm 11:1; in an indirect sentence 2 Kings 17:28; Jeremiah 36:17; Ruth 3:18.

2. as an exclamationHow! whether of lamentation 2 Samuel 1:19; Jeremiah 2:21; Jeremiah 9:18; Micah 2:4; or of satisfaction Isaiah 14:4,12; Jeremiah 48:39; Jeremiah 51:41; Obadiah 5 and elsewhere; with intensive force=how gladly!Jeremiah 3:19, how terribly!Jeremiah 9:6 (but others render here 'for how [else] should I do'? etc.) **Hos 11:8 according to Hi Ke We Marti and others.

אֵיכָה (from אַי and כָּה=כֹּה; compare Assyrian ekiam)

adverb 1. interrogativeIn what manner?τίνι τρόπῳ; (rather more definite than אֵיח=πῶς); Deuteronomy 1:12; Deuteronomy 7:17; Deuteronomy 12:30; Deuteronomy 18:21; Deuteronomy 32:30; Judges 20:3 (indirect sentence) 2 Kings 6:15; Jeremiah 8:8; Psalm 73:11.

2 exclamation How! (slightly more emphatic than אֵיח) Isaiah 1:21; Jeremiah 48:17; Lamentations 1:1; Lamentations 2:1; Lamentations 4:1,2.

3 Where? (properly north-Israel; compare Aramaic אֵיכָא, where ? compare Dr^{Intr. 178, 421}) only 2 Kings 6:13 Kt Songs 1:7 (twice in verse), — each time in an indirect sentence.

אֵיכָ֫כָה (Canticles) ֵ˜איכָכָ֫ה (Esther) (from אַי & כָּ֫כָהthus)

How? only Songs 5:3 (twice in verse); Esther 8:6 (twice in verse).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 349. ek — 82 Occurrences

Genesis 26:9
HEB:אִשְׁתְּךָ֙ הִ֔וא וְאֵ֥יךְ אָמַ֖רְתָּ אֲחֹ֣תִי
NAS: she is your wife! How then did you say,
INT: is your wife he How say other

Genesis 39:9
HEB:אַתְּ־ אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֨יךְ אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֜ה הָרָעָ֤ה
NAS: you are his wife. How then could I do
INT: thou are his wife How do wickedness

Genesis 44:8
HEB:מֵאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן וְאֵ֗יךְ נִגְנֹב֙ מִבֵּ֣ית
NAS: of Canaan. How then could we steal
INT: the land of Canaan How steal house

Genesis 44:34
HEB: כִּי־ אֵיךְ֙ אֶֽעֱלֶ֣ה אֶל־
NAS:For how shall I go up to my father
KJV:For how shall I go up to my father,
INT: For how go to

Exodus 6:12
HEB:שָׁמְע֣וּ אֵלַ֔י וְאֵיךְ֙ יִשְׁמָעֵ֣נִי פַרְעֹ֔ה
NAS: have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh
INT: listened to me how listen will Pharaoh

Exodus 6:30
HEB:עֲרַ֣ל שְׂפָתַ֔יִם וְאֵ֕יךְ יִשְׁמַ֥ע אֵלַ֖י
NAS: in speech; how then will Pharaoh
INT: unskilled speech how listen then

Deuteronomy 1:12
HEB: אֵיכָ֥ה אֶשָּׂ֖א לְבַדִּ֑י
KJV:How can I myself alone bear
INT:How bear alone

Deuteronomy 7:17
HEB:הָאֵ֖לֶּה מִמֶּ֑נִּי אֵיכָ֥ה אוּכַ֖ל לְהוֹרִישָֽׁם׃
KJV: [are] more than I; how can
INT: These than how can dispossess

Deuteronomy 12:30
HEB:לֵֽאלֹהֵיהֶ֜ם לֵאמֹ֨ר אֵיכָ֨ה יַעַבְד֜וּ הַגּוֹיִ֤ם
INT: their gods saying how serve nations

Deuteronomy 18:21
HEB:תֹאמַ֖ר בִּלְבָבֶ֑ךָ אֵיכָה֙ נֵדַ֣ע אֶת־
INT: may say your heart will we know the word

Deuteronomy 32:30
HEB: אֵיכָ֞ה יִרְדֹּ֤ף אֶחָד֙
INT:how chase one

Joshua 9:7
HEB:אַתָּ֣ה יוֹשֵׁ֔ב וְאֵ֖יךְ [אֶכְרֹות־ כ]
NAS: within our land; how then shall we make
INT: you are living how make make

Judges 16:15
HEB:וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֗יו אֵ֚יךְ תֹּאמַ֣ר אֲהַבְתִּ֔יךְ
NAS: Then she said to him, How can you say,
KJV: And she said unto him, How canst thou say,
INT: said to him How say love

Judges 20:3
HEB:יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל דַּבְּר֕וּ אֵיכָ֥ה נִהְיְתָ֖ה הָרָעָ֥ה
INT: of Israel Tell how take adversity

Ruth 3:18
HEB:אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֵּֽדְעִ֔ין אֵ֖יךְ יִפֹּ֣ל דָּבָ֑ר
NAS: until you know how the matter turns
INT: you know how turns the matter

1 Samuel 16:2
HEB:וַיֹּ֤אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵל֙ אֵ֣יךְ אֵלֵ֔ךְ וְשָׁמַ֥ע
NAS: said, How can I go?
INT: said Samuel How along hears

2 Samuel 1:5
HEB:הַמַּגִּ֣יד ל֑וֹ אֵ֣יךְ יָדַ֔עְתָּ כִּי־
NAS: who told him, How do you know
INT: the young told How know for

2 Samuel 1:14
HEB:אֵלָ֖יו דָּוִ֑ד אֵ֚יךְ לֹ֣א יָרֵ֔אתָ
NAS: said to him, How is it you were not afraid
INT: then David How were not afraid

2 Samuel 1:19
HEB:בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָ חָלָ֑ל אֵ֖יךְ נָפְל֥וּ גִבּוֹרִֽים׃
NAS: on your high places! How have the mighty
INT: your high is slain How fallen have the mighty

2 Samuel 1:25
HEB: אֵ֚יךְ נָפְל֣וּ גִבֹּרִ֔ים
NAS:How have the mighty fallen
INT:How fallen have the mighty

2 Samuel 1:27
HEB: אֵ֚יךְ נָפְל֣וּ גִבּוֹרִ֔ים
NAS:How have the mighty fallen,
INT:How fallen have the mighty

2 Samuel 2:22
HEB:אַכֶּ֙כָּה֙ אַ֔רְצָה וְאֵיךְ֙ אֶשָּׂ֣א פָנַ֔י
NAS: you to the ground? How then could I lift
INT: strike common how lift my face

2 Samuel 6:9
HEB:הַה֑וּא וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אֵ֛יךְ יָב֥וֹא אֵלַ֖י
NAS: and he said, How can the ark
INT: and he said How come can

2 Samuel 12:18
HEB:שָׁמַ֣ע בְּקוֹלֵ֔נוּ וְאֵ֨יךְ נֹאמַ֥ר אֵלָ֛יו
NAS: to our voice. How then can we tell
INT: listen to our voice How tell about

1 Kings 12:6
HEB:חַ֖י לֵאמֹ֑ר אֵ֚יךְ אַתֶּ֣ם נֽוֹעָצִ֔ים
NAS: saying, How do you counsel
INT: alive saying How you counsel

2 Kings 6:15
HEB:אֲהָ֥הּ אֲדֹנִ֖י אֵיכָ֥ה נַֽעֲשֶֽׂה׃
INT: Alas my master shall we do

2 Kings 10:4
HEB:עָמְד֖וּ לְפָנָ֑יו וְאֵ֖יךְ נַעֲמֹ֥ד אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃
NAS: before him; how then can we stand?
INT: stand before how stand we

2 Kings 17:28
HEB:מוֹרֶ֣ה אֹתָ֔ם אֵ֖יךְ יִֽירְא֥וּ אֶת־
NAS: and taught them how they should fear
INT: become and taught how fear the LORD

2 Kings 18:24
HEB: וְאֵ֣יךְ תָּשִׁ֗יב אֵ֠ת
NAS:How then can you repulse one
INT:How away the face

2 Chronicles 10:6
HEB:חַ֖י לֵאמֹ֑ר אֵ֚יךְ אַתֶּ֣ם נֽוֹעָצִ֔ים
NAS: saying, How do you counsel
KJV: saying, What counsel give
INT: alive saying How you counsel

Esther 8:6
HEB: כִּ֠י אֵיכָכָ֤ה אוּכַל֙ וְֽרָאִ֔יתִי
KJV:For how can I endure to see
INT: For how can to see

Esther 8:6
HEB:אֶת־ עַמִּ֑י וְאֵֽיכָכָ֤ה אוּכַל֙ וְֽרָאִ֔יתִי
KJV: unto my people? or how can I endure
INT: will befall my people how endure to see

Job 21:34
HEB: וְ֭אֵיךְ תְּנַחֲמ֣וּנִי הָ֑בֶל
NAS:How then will you vainly comfort
INT:How comfort vainly

Psalm 11:1
HEB:בַּֽיהוָ֨ה ׀ חָסִ֗יתִי אֵ֭יךְ תֹּאמְר֣וּ לְנַפְשִׁ֑י
NAS: I take refuge; How can you say
INT: the LORD take How say to my soul

Psalm 73:11
HEB: וְֽאָמְר֗וּ אֵיכָ֥ה יָדַֽע־ אֵ֑ל
INT: say how know God

Psalm 73:19
HEB: אֵ֤יךְ הָי֣וּ לְשַׁמָּ֣ה
NAS:How they are destroyed in a moment!
INT:How become are destroyed

Psalm 137:4
HEB: אֵ֗יךְ נָשִׁ֥יר אֶת־
NAS:How can we sing the LORD'S
INT:How sing song

Proverbs 5:12
HEB: וְֽאָמַרְתָּ֗ אֵ֭יךְ שָׂנֵ֣אתִי מוּסָ֑ר
NAS: And you say, How I have hated
INT: say How have hated instruction

Ecclesiastes 2:16
HEB:הַכֹּ֣ל נִשְׁכָּ֔ח וְאֵ֛יךְ יָמ֥וּת הֶחָכָ֖ם
NAS: will be forgotten. And how the wise man
INT: all will be forgotten and how die man

Ecclesiastes 4:11
HEB:לָהֶ֑ם וּלְאֶחָ֖ד אֵ֥יךְ יֵחָֽם׃
NAS: together they keep warm, but how can one
INT: keep one how be warm

Songs 1:7
HEB:שֶׁ֤אָהֲבָה֙ נַפְשִׁ֔י אֵיכָ֣ה תִרְעֶ֔ה אֵיכָ֖ה
KJV: where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest
INT: loves my soul where pasture how

Songs 1:7
HEB:אֵיכָ֣ה תִרְעֶ֔ה אֵיכָ֖ה תַּרְבִּ֣יץ בַּֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִם
INT: where pasture how make lie noon

Songs 5:3
HEB:אֶת־ כֻּתָּנְתִּ֔י אֵיכָ֖כָה אֶלְבָּשֶׁ֑נָּה רָחַ֥צְתִּי
KJV: my coat; how shall I put it on?
INT: have taken my dress how put have washed

Songs 5:3
HEB:אֶת־ רַגְלַ֖י אֵיכָ֥כָה אֲטַנְּפֵֽם׃
KJV: my feet; how shall I defile
INT: have washed my feet how dirty

Isaiah 1:21
HEB: אֵיכָה֙ הָיְתָ֣ה לְזוֹנָ֔ה
INT:how has become A harlot

Isaiah 14:4
HEB:בָּבֶ֖ל וְאָמָ֑רְתָּ אֵ֚יךְ שָׁבַ֣ת נֹגֵ֔שׂ
NAS: and say, How the oppressor
INT: of Babylon and say How has ceased the oppressor

Isaiah 14:12
HEB: אֵ֛יךְ נָפַ֥לְתָּ מִשָּׁמַ֖יִם
NAS:How you have fallen from heaven,
INT:How have fallen heaven

Isaiah 19:11
HEB:עֵצָ֖ה נִבְעָרָ֑ה אֵ֚יךְ תֹּאמְר֣וּ אֶל־
NAS: has become stupid. How can you [men] say
INT: the advice has become How you say to

Isaiah 20:6
HEB:מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֑וּר וְאֵ֖יךְ נִמָּלֵ֥ט אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃
NAS: of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?'
INT: the king of Assyria how escape ourselves

Isaiah 36:9
HEB: וְאֵ֣יךְ תָּשִׁ֗יב אֵ֠ת
NAS:How then can you repulse one
INT:How away the face

Isaiah 48:11
HEB:אֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה כִּ֣י אֵ֣יךְ יֵחָ֑ל וּכְבוֹדִ֖י
NAS: I will act; For how can [My name] be profaned?
INT: will act For how should be polluted my glory

Jeremiah 2:21
HEB:זֶ֣רַע אֱמֶ֑ת וְאֵיךְ֙ נֶהְפַּ֣כְתְּ לִ֔י
NAS: seed. How then have you turned
INT: seed faithful How turned plant

Jeremiah 2:23
HEB: אֵ֣יךְ תֹּאמְרִ֞י לֹ֣א
NAS:How can you say, 'I am not defiled,
INT:How say I am not

Jeremiah 3:19
HEB:וְאָנֹכִ֣י אָמַ֗רְתִּי אֵ֚יךְ אֲשִׁיתֵ֣ךְ בַּבָּנִ֔ים
NAS: Then I said, 'How I would set
INT: I said How set my sons

Jeremiah 8:8
HEB: אֵיכָ֤ה תֹֽאמְרוּ֙ חֲכָמִ֣ים
INT:how say are wise

Jeremiah 9:7
HEB:וּבְחַנְתִּ֑ים כִּֽי־ אֵ֣יךְ אֶעֱשֶׂ֔ה מִפְּנֵ֖י
NAS: them and assay them; For what [else] can I do,
INT: and assay For what do for

Jeremiah 9:19
HEB:נִשְׁמַ֥ע מִצִּיּ֖וֹן אֵ֣יךְ שֻׁדָּ֑דְנוּ בֹּ֤שְׁנֽוּ
NAS: from Zion, How are we ruined!
INT: is heard Zion How ruined are put

Jeremiah 12:5
HEB:רַ֙צְתָּה֙ וַיַּלְא֔וּךָ וְאֵ֥יךְ תְּתַֽחֲרֶ֖ה אֶת־
NAS: and they have tired you out, Then how can you compete
INT: have run have tired how contend for

Jeremiah 12:5
HEB:אַתָּ֣ה בוֹטֵ֔חַ וְאֵ֥יךְ תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה בִּגְא֥וֹן
NAS: of peace, How will you do
INT: you down How do the thicket

Jeremiah 36:17
HEB:נָ֣א לָ֔נוּ אֵ֗יךְ כָּתַ֛בְתָּ אֶת־
NAS: us, please, how did you write
INT: Tell please how write all

Jeremiah 47:7
HEB: אֵ֣יךְ תִּשְׁקֹ֔טִי וַֽיהוָ֖ה
NAS:How can it be quiet, When the LORD
INT:How it be quiet the LORD

Jeremiah 48:14
HEB: אֵ֚יךְ תֹּֽאמְר֔וּ גִּבּוֹרִ֖ים
NAS:How can you say,
INT:How say are mighty

Jeremiah 48:17
HEB:שְׁמ֑וֹ אִמְר֗וּ אֵיכָ֤ה נִשְׁבַּר֙ מַטֵּה־
INT: his name Say how been broken scepter

Jeremiah 48:39
HEB: אֵ֥יךְ חַ֙תָּה֙ הֵילִ֔ילוּ
NAS:How shattered
INT:How shattered have wailed

Jeremiah 48:39
HEB:חַ֙תָּה֙ הֵילִ֔ילוּ אֵ֛יךְ הִפְנָה־ עֹ֥רֶף
NAS: it is! [How] they have wailed! How Moab
INT: shattered have wailed How has turned his back

Jeremiah 49:25
HEB: אֵ֥יךְ לֹֽא־ עֻזְּבָ֖ה
NAS:How the city of praise
INT:How has not been deserted

Jeremiah 50:23
HEB: אֵ֤יךְ נִגְדַּע֙ וַיִּשָּׁבֵ֔ר
NAS:How the hammer of the whole
INT:How has been cut and broken

Jeremiah 50:23
HEB:כָּל־ הָאָ֑רֶץ אֵ֣יךְ הָיְתָ֧ה לְשַׁמָּ֛ה
NAS: and broken! How Babylon
INT: of the whole earth How has become an object

Jeremiah 51:41
HEB: אֵ֚יךְ נִלְכְּדָ֣ה שֵׁשַׁ֔ךְ
NAS:How Sheshak has been captured,
INT:How has been captured Sheshak

Jeremiah 51:41
HEB:כָּל־ הָאָ֑רֶץ אֵ֣יךְ הָיְתָ֧ה לְשַׁמָּ֛ה
NAS: been seized! How Babylon
INT: of the whole earth How has become an object

Lamentations 1:1
HEB: אֵיכָ֣ה ׀ יָשְׁבָ֣ה בָדָ֗ד
INT:how sits lonely

Lamentations 2:1
HEB: אֵיכָה֩ יָעִ֨יב בְּאַפּ֤וֹ ׀
INT:how has covered his anger

Lamentations 4:1
HEB: אֵיכָה֙ יוּעַ֣ם זָהָ֔ב
INT:how dark the gold

Lamentations 4:2
HEB:הַמְסֻלָּאִ֖ים בַּפָּ֑ז אֵיכָ֤ה נֶחְשְׁבוּ֙ לְנִבְלֵי־
INT: Weighed fine how are regarded jars

Ezekiel 26:17
HEB:וְאָ֣מְרוּ לָ֔ךְ אֵ֣יךְ אָבַ֔דְתְּ נוֹשֶׁ֖בֶת
NAS: you and say to you, 'How you have perished,
INT: A lamentation and say How have perished inhabited

Ezekiel 33:10
HEB:אֲנַ֥חְנוּ נְמַקִּ֖ים וְאֵ֥יךְ נִֽחְיֶֽה׃
NAS: are upon us, and we are rotting away in them; how then can we survive?'
INT: we are rotting how live

Hosea 11:8
HEB: אֵ֞יךְ אֶתֶּנְךָ֣ אֶפְרַ֗יִם
NAS:How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
INT:How give Ephraim

Hosea 11:8
HEB:אֲמַגֶּנְךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֵ֚יךְ אֶתֶּנְךָ֣ כְאַדְמָ֔ה
NAS: you, O Israel? How can I make
INT: deliver Israel How make Admah

Obadiah 1:5
HEB:שׁ֣וֹדְדֵי לַ֔יְלָה אֵ֣יךְ נִדְמֵ֔יתָה הֲל֥וֹא
NAS: by night-- O how you will be ruined!--
INT: robbers night how will be ruined not

Obadiah 1:6
HEB: אֵ֚יךְ נֶחְפְּשׂ֣וּ עֵשָׂ֔ו
NAS:O how Esau will be ransacked,
INT:how will be ransacked Esau

Micah 2:4
HEB:עַמִּ֖י יָמִ֑יר אֵ֚יךְ יָמִ֣ישׁ לִ֔י
NAS: of my people; How He removes
INT: of my people exchanges How removes to the apostate

Zephaniah 2:15
HEB:וְאַפְסִ֣י ע֑וֹד אֵ֣יךְ ׀ הָיְתָ֣ה לְשַׁמָּ֗ה
NAS: besides me. How she has become
INT: and there besides How has become A desolation