אֵיפֹה
ʼêyphôh · H375 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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where?
A reference to an unknown location; normally used with the purpose of finding which location that is; sometimes used in rhetorical questions expressing one's conviction that such a location cannot be found
ExamplesGenesis 37:16 He said, “I am looking for my brothers; please tell me where they are pasturing the flock.”
Judges 8:18 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “Where were the men whom you killed at Tabor?” But they said, “You and they were alike, each one resembling the son of a king.”
Ruth 2:19 Her mother-in-law then said to her, “Where did you glean today and where did you work? May he who took notice of you be blessed.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”
How it’s used In 1 role
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
5 occurrences in 6 groups
- דָּוִדDavid 1
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
- הֵםthey, them 1
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
- שְׁמוּאֵלSamuel 1
- אַתָּהyou 1
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- אַיִן ʼayin · H370 · from where?
- Both lexemes are genuine spatial interrogatives (where/whence questions) that can function as near-synonyms in asking about location or origin.
- אָן ʼân · H575 · where?, when?
- Both the target term and אָן (ʼân, H575) are spatial-reference interrogatives or adverbs concerning location or direction ('where'/'whither'). This represents genuine same-language near-synonymy — two distinct words that can substitute for each other in overlapping locative contexts.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ποῦ poû · G4226 · where?, where, in which
- Greek ποῦ (poû, G4226) serves as the standard interrogative adverb of place in Koine Greek, functioning as the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew אֵיפֹה (ʼêyphôh, H375) in LXX rendering of locative questions ('where?').
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Spatial Referents003002005
- אֵיפֹה is the interrogative "where," as Joseph asked where his brothers were pasturing the flock.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H375. ephoh אֵיפֹה (from אַי & מֹּה here) adverb 1. where? Gen 37:16; 1Sa 19:22; 2Sa 9:4;…
אֵיפֹה (from אַי & מֹּה here)
adverb 1. where? Gen 37:16; 1Sa 19:22; 2Sa 9:4; Isa 49:21; Jer 3:2; Job 4:7; Job 38:4; Rth 2:19; in indirect sentence Jer 36:19 (less common than אַיֵה, used of persons [contrast אֵיוֶֿה] and with a verb [contrast אַיֵּה]).
2 of what kind? (quails ?) only Jdg 8:18.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; 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.
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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