Strong’s H349 · Hebrew

אֵיךְ
ʼêyk
ake

Definition

how? or how!; also where

Etymology

also אֵיכָה ; and אֵיכָכָה ; prolonged from H335 (אַי);

Where the KJV renders it

  • how
  • what

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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