Strong H3493 sensesאֵיךְ

how?

Transliteration
'êyk 'êykâh 'êykâkâh
Pronunciation
{ake} {ay-kaw'} ay-kaw'-kah

The 3 senses of Strong H349

The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H349 appears in 8 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. how?H349A3 verses · Genesis, Judges, 2 Chronicles
  2. how?אֵיכָהH349B2 verses · Deuteronomy
  3. Another spelling of ekh (אֵיךְ "how?" H0349A)אֵיכָ֫כָהH349C2 verses · Esther, Song of Songs

General definition

Prolonged from H335; how ? or how !; also where: - {how} what.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • how5
  • unto1
  • what1
  • where1

First verses

  1. Genesis 44:34
    For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
  2. Deuteronomy 1:12
    How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
  3. Deuteronomy 7:17
    If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
  4. Judges 16:15
    And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
  5. 2 Chronicles 10:6
    And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?
  6. Esther 8:6
    For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
  7. Song of Songs 1:7
    Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
  8. Song of Songs 5:3
    I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?