interrog adv how?
STRONG'S WORD STUDY
H349 — אֵיךְ
ekh · how? · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 26:9 · וְאֵ֥יךְAbimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”Genesis 39:9 · וְאֵ֨יךְNo one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”Genesis 44:8 · וְאֵ֗יךְWe even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?Genesis 44:34 · אֵיךְ֙For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”Exodus 6:12 · וְאֵיךְ֙But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”Exodus 6:30 · וְאֵ֕יךְBut in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”Deuteronomy 1:12 · אֵיכָ֥הBut how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?Deuteronomy 7:17 · אֵיכָ֥הYou may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”Deuteronomy 12:30 · אֵיכָ֨הbe careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”Deuteronomy 18:21 · אֵיכָה֙You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”Deuteronomy 32:30 · אֵיכָ֞הHow could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?Joshua 9:7 · וְאֵ֖יךְBut the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”Judges 16:15 · אֵ֚יךְ“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”Judges 20:3 · אֵיכָ֥ה(Meanwhile the Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this wicked thing happen?”Ruth 3:18 · אֵ֖יךְ“Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”1 Samuel 16:2 · אֵ֣יךְ“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’2 Samuel 1:5 · אֵ֣יךְThen David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”2 Samuel 1:14 · אֵ֚יךְSo David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”2 Samuel 1:19 · אֵ֖יךְ“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!2 Samuel 1:25 · אֵ֚יךְHow the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.2 Samuel 1:27 · אֵ֚יךְHow the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”2 Samuel 2:22 · וְאֵיךְ֙Once again, Abner warned Asahel, “Stop chasing me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How could I show my face to your brother Joab?”2 Samuel 6:9 · אֵ֛יךְThat day David feared the LORD and asked, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”2 Samuel 12:18 · וְאֵ֨יךְOn the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”1 Kings 12:6 · אֵ֚יךְThen King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.2 Kings 6:15 · אֵיכָ֥הWhen the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, behold, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”2 Kings 10:4 · וְאֵ֖יךְBut they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”2 Kings 17:28 · אֵ֖יךְThus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.2 Kings 18:24 · וְאֵ֣יךְFor how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?2 Chronicles 10:6 · אֵ֚יךְThen King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.Esther 8:6 · אֵיכָכָ֤ה · וְאֵֽיכָכָ֤הFor how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”Job 21:34 · וְ֭אֵיךְSo how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”Psalm 11:1 · אֵ֭יךְFor the choirmaster. Of David. In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!Psalm 73:11 · אֵיכָ֥הThe wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”Psalm 73:19 · אֵ֤יךְHow suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!Psalm 137:4 · אֵ֗יךְHow can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?Proverbs 5:12 · אֵ֭יךְand you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!Ecclesiastes 2:16 · וְאֵ֛יךְFor there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!Ecclesiastes 4:11 · אֵ֥יךְAgain, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone?Song of Solomon 1:7 · אֵיכָ֣ה · אֵיכָ֖הTell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?Song of Solomon 5:3 · אֵיכָ֖כָה · אֵיכָ֥כָהI have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?Isaiah 1:21 · אֵיכָה֙See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!Isaiah 14:4 · אֵ֚יךְyou will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!Isaiah 14:12 · אֵ֛יךְHow you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.Isaiah 19:11 · אֵ֚יךְThe princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?Isaiah 20:6 · וְאֵ֖יךְAnd on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”Isaiah 36:9 · וְאֵ֣יךְFor how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?Isaiah 48:11 · אֵ֣יךְFor My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.Jeremiah 2:21 · וְאֵיךְ֙I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?Jeremiah 2:23 · אֵ֣יךְ“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,Jeremiah 3:19 · אֵ֚יךְThen I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.Jeremiah 8:8 · אֵיכָ֤הHow can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?Jeremiah 9:7 · אֵ֣יךְTherefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?Jeremiah 9:19 · אֵ֣יךְFor the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”Jeremiah 12:5 · וְאֵ֥יךְ · וְאֵ֥יךְ“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?Jeremiah 36:17 · אֵ֗יךְ“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”Jeremiah 47:7 · אֵ֣יךְHow can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”Jeremiah 48:14 · אֵ֚יךְHow can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?Jeremiah 48:17 · אֵיכָ֤הMourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!Jeremiah 48:39 · אֵ֥יךְ · אֵ֛יךְ“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”Jeremiah 49:25 · אֵ֥יךְHow is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?Jeremiah 50:23 · אֵ֤יךְ · אֵ֣יךְHow the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!Jeremiah 51:41 · אֵ֚יךְ · אֵ֣יךְHow Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!Lamentations 1:1 · אֵיכָ֣ה׀How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.Lamentations 2:1 · אֵיכָה֩How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.Lamentations 4:1 · אֵיכָה֙How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.Lamentations 4:2 · אֵיכָ֤הHow the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!Hosea 11:8 · אֵ֞יךְ · אֵ֚יךְHow could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!Obadiah 1:5 · אֵ֣יךְ“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?Obadiah 1:6 · אֵ֚יךְBut how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!Micah 2:4 · אֵ֚יךְIn that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”Zephaniah 2:15 · אֵ֣יךְ׀This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.