H349aInterrogative61 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
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- Genesis 26:9וְאֵיךְ
Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
- 2 Samuel 1:5אֵיךְ
Then David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
- 2 Kings 10:4וְאֵיךְ
But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”
- Psalm 11:1אֵיךְ
In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
- Isaiah 14:4אֵיךְ
you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
- Jeremiah 2:21וְאֵיךְ
I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
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Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.