H370Interrogative17 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
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- Genesis 29:4מֵאַיִן
“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
- Numbers 11:13מֵאַיִן
Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
- Joshua 2:4מֵאַיִן
But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
- Judges 17:9מֵאַיִן
“Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”
- 2 Kings 5:25מֵאַיִן
When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” “Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied.
- Job 1:7מֵאַיִן
“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
Brown-Driver-Briggs
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.