Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H5857: עַי (ʻAy) Definition

Strong's number
H5857
Lemma
עַי
Transliteration
ʻAy
Pronunciation
ah'ee
Strong's definition
Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai. or (feminine) עַיָּא; (Nehemiah 11:31), or עַיָּת; (Isaiah 10:28), for H5856 (עִי);

33 instances of the word עַי ʻAy (H5857)


  • Joshua 8:21 - And when Joshua and all Israel saw had taken that the ambush of the city ascended and that the smoke of the city then they turned again and slew the men of Ai

  • Joshua 8:23 - And the king of Ai they took alive and brought him to Joshua

  • Joshua 8:24 - had made an end And it came to pass when Israel of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness wherein they chased them and when they were all fallen it with the edge of the sword until they were consumed returned And it came to pass when Israel of Ai and smote it with the edge of the sword

  • Joshua 8:25 - And so it was that all that fell that day both of men and women were twelve thousand both of men of Ai

  • Joshua 8:26 - For Joshua back not his hand wherewith he stretched out the spear until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai

  • Joshua 8:28 - burnt And Joshua Ai and made it an heap for ever even a desolation unto this day

  • Joshua 8:29 - And the king of Ai he hanged from the tree until eventide was down and as soon as the sun commanded Joshua down his carcase from the tree and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city and raise heap of stones thereon a great that remaineth unto this day

  • Joshua 9:3 - And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard had done what Joshua unto Jericho and to Ai

  • Joshua 10:1 - had heard Now it came to pass when Adonizedek and her king of Jerusalem how had taken Joshua Ai and had utterly destroyed it as he had done to Jericho and her king it as he had done Ai and her king how had made peace and how the inhabitants of Gibeon with Israel and were among

  • Joshua 10:2 - That they feared greatly cities and because it was greater because Gibeon as one cities of the royal and because it was greater than Ai thereof were mighty

  • Joshua 12:9 - The king of Jericho one The king of Ai which is beside Bethel one

  • Nehemiah 7:32 - of Bethel and Ai an hundred twenty and three

  • Nehemiah 11:31 - The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash and Aija and Bethel and in their villages