אֵיךְ (ʼēyk) — how? | UBS Hebrew Dictionary

Notes: Passage: OET JNA 2:4
RSV NJPS NJB NRSV REB GNT CEV | MT HOTTP-B NIV אַךְ

Form 1

Part of speech: ir

Related lemmas: אֵיכָה · אֵיכֹה · אֵיכָכָה · הֵיךְ

Sense 1: how?

Semantic domains: Descriptive Referents (003002002)

Definition: = referent to the way in which an event is performed; ► normally with the intention of finding out how, but often used in rhetorical questions in order to express one's conviction that that event in question cannot be performed at all (under the given circumstances)

Forms: question; word

Show passage in OET: GEN 26:9

OET-RV GEN 26:9

9 So Avimelek called for Yitshak and said, “Hey, she’s really your wife! So how could you say, ‘She’s my sister’?”
¶ “Because I said to myself, ‘I might die because of her.’,” Yitshak replied.

OET-LV GEN 26:9

9 And_ ʼAⱱīmelek _he/it _called (to)_Yiʦḩāq and_he/it _said surely HERE wife _of_is_your she and_how did _you _say sister _of_is_my she and_he/it _said to_him/it Yiʦḩāq if/because I _thought lest I _should _die on_her.

Show passage in OET: GEN 39:9

OET-RV GEN 39:9

9 In this house, he doesn’t even have more authority than I do and he hasn’t kept anything back from me, except for you, his wife. How could I do this very wicked thing and sin against God.

OET-LV GEN 39:9