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אִי

ʼîy · H338 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. hyena, jackal

    Exact meaning unsure: animal associated with death, destruction, and devastation

    Examples

    Isaiah 13:22 Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers And jackals in their luxurious palaces. Her fateful time also will soon come, And her days will not be prolonged.

    Isaiah 34:14 The desert creatures will meet with the wolves, The goat also will cry to its kind. Yes, the night-bird will settle there And will find herself a resting place.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 5 entries
Groups001001003004
This entry carries no independent “Groups” sense of its own; every occurrence of this lexeme is the wild-animal noun “hyena”, as in “Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers” (Isaiah 13:22). The domain is bundle-shared with אִי (ʼîy, H336), אִי (ʼîy, H337), and אִי (ʼîy, H339).
Land001002002
This entry carries no independent “Land” sense of its own; every occurrence of this lexeme is the wild-animal noun “hyena”: “Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers” (Isaiah 13:22). The domain is bundle-shared with אִי (ʼîy, H336), אִי (ʼîy, H337), and אִי (ʼîy, H339).
Wild Animals001001002001
אִי here names hyenas or howling desert creatures, as those said to howl in Babylon's fortified towers (Isaiah 13:22).
Evaluators004005
This entry carries no independent “Evaluators” sense of its own; every occurrence of this lexeme is the wild-animal noun “hyena”: “Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers” (Isaiah 13:22). The domain is bundle-shared with אִי (ʼîy, H336), אִי (ʼîy, H337), and אִי (ʼîy, H339).
Negators004006
This entry carries no independent “Negators” sense of its own; every occurrence of this lexeme is the wild-animal noun “hyena”: “Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers” (Isaiah 13:22). The domain is bundle-shared with אִי (ʼîy, H336), אִי (ʼîy, H337), and אִי (ʼîy, H339).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H338. i II. [אִי] noun masculine jackal (howler, for *אָוִי see BaNB 188, compare Arabic…
H338. i
II. [אִי] noun masculine jackal (howler, for *אָוִי see BaNB 188, compare Arabic , whence ) — plural אִיִּים, Isa 13:22; Isa 34:14; Jer 50:39 (inhabitant of desert, ruin).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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