Strong's Lexicon

H336

H336 — אִי

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewiyadverbOccurrences: 2TWOT: 77

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H336
Word:	אִי
Part of Speech:	adverb
Etymology:	probably identical with H335 (through the idea of a query)
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	2
Transliteration:	iy
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	ee
Meaning:	1. not
KJV Renderings:	island (Job 22

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB370

IV. אִי adverb not (frequently in Rabb , as אִי אֶפְשַׁר impossible; and in Ethiopic the ordinary negative; compare Phoenician אי CIS^{i, 3, 5}, and in איבל^{165; 18; 167;
11}; Assyrian ai ) Job 22:30 אִינָֿקִי the non-innocent.

Job 22:30: read perhaps אֵל (Me), or אֱלֹהַּ (Ley), with וְתִמָּלֵט in verse b.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

איך (ehch)

Genesis 44:34

KJV: 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.come…: Heb. find my father

EHCC: For how shall I go uF to my father,

Judges 16:15

KJV: 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.

EHCC: How canst thou say, 1 love thee,

2 Chronicles 10:6

KJV: 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?

EHCC: saying Whatcounsel give ye(me)to retum