אַיִן
ʾayin
whence?
Strong's H370InterrogativeHebrewTWOT 75f

אַיִן (ʾayin) is a Hebrew interrogative meaning whence? It appears 16 times in 10 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H370).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 75f)

Range of meaning (TWOT 75f)whence?; where?; whence, where
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

אַ֫יִן adverb: whence?

Strong's H370 אַיִן: where? (only in connection with prepositional prefix, whence)
KJV:whence, where.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 75: אַי ʾay — where?; how?; how, what, whence, where, whether, which

See it in Scripture

Genesis 29:4Numbers 11:13Joshua 2:4

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