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אֵיכָה

Strong’s: H349b

Associated OET lemmas: אֵיךְ · אֵיכָה · אֵיכָכָה

Authors: Reinier de Blois

Form 1

Part of speech: ir

Related lemmas: אֵיךְ · 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)

Show passage in OET: DEU 1:12

OET-RV DEU 1:12

12 but how could I possibly bear all your loads and burdens and disputes by myself?

OET-LV DEU 1:12

12 How will _I _bear I_alone burden _of_your(pl) and_burden _of_your(pl) and_dispute[s]_of_your(pl).

Show passage in OET: DEU 7:17

OET-RV DEU 7:17

17 Don’t tell yourselves that because those groups have many more people than you, that you won’t be able to drive them out.

OET-LV DEU 7:17

17 If/because you _will _say in_heart _of_your are_great the_nations the_these more_than _I how will _I _be _able to_dispossess_them.

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All 15 recorded passages for this sense

DEU: OET DEU 1:12 · OET DEU 7:17 · OET DEU 12:30 · OET DEU 18:21 · OET DEU 32:30

JDG: OET JDG 20:3

KI2: OET KI2 6:15

PSA: OET PSA 73:11

ISA: OET ISA 1:21

JER: OET JER 8:8 · OET JER 48:17

LAM: OET LAM 1:1 · OET LAM 2:1 · OET LAM 4:1–2

Sense 2: where?

Semantic domains: Spatial Referents (003002004)

Definition: = reference to an unknown location; ► used with the purpose of finding which location that is

Show passage in OET: SNG 1:7

OET-RV SNG 1:7

7 Declare to me, you who my heart loves.
⇔ Where do you graze?
⇔ Where do you make your flocks lie down at noontime?
⇔ Why should I be like a woman who covers herself beside your companions’ flocks?

OET-LV SNG 1:7

7 Tell to/for_me Oh_ self _of_my _the_one_whom _it _loves where will _you _graze where will _you _make_them_lie _down at_noon(s) which_why will _I _be like_a _veiled_woman with the _flocks _of your(pl)_companions _of_your.

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