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אַיָּה

ʼAyâh · H345 · Hebrew · proper noun · 6 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Meanings

  1. Aiah

    Man; son of Zibeon, brother of Anah; descendant of Seir

    Examples

    Genesis 36:24 And these are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah—he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

    1 Chronicles 1:40 The sons of Shobal were Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon were Aiah and Anah.

  2. Aiah

    Aiah, father of Rizpah, the concubine of Saul

    Examples

    2 Samuel 3:7 And Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”

    2 Samuel 21:8 So the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

    2 Samuel 21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until it rained on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the wild animals by night.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 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.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Birds001001002005
This entry carries no independent “Birds” sense of its own; every occurrence of this lexeme is the personal name Aiah, as in “And Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah” (2 Samuel 3:7). The domain is bundle-shared with the homographic kite/vulture noun אַיָּה (ʼayâh, H344).
Names of People003001007
אַיָּה most directly names Aiah, the father of Rizpah, Saul's concubine, “Rizpah the daughter of Aiah” (2 Samuel 3:7), and a son of Zibeon in Edom's genealogy (Genesis 36:24).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H345. Ayyah II. אַיָּה proper name, masculine (falcon) 1 a Horite Gen 36:24; 1Ch 1:40. 2…
H345. Ayyah
II. אַיָּה proper name, masculine (falcon)
1 a Horite Gen 36:24; 1Ch 1:40.
2 father of Rizpah 2Sa 3:7; 2Sa 21:8, 2Sa 21:10, 2Sa 21:11.

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

Sources

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