Strong's #5857: `Ay (pronounced ah'ee)

or (feminine) uAya( (Neh. 11:31) {ah-yaw'}; or eAyath (Isaiah 10:28) {ah-yawth'}; for 5856; Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine:--Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ / ּ /

‛ay / ‛ayâ' / ‛ayâth

Ai or Aija or Aiath or Hai = "heap of ruins"

1) a city lying east of Bethel and beside Bethaven near Jericho and the 2nd city taken on the invasion of Canaan

2) a city of the Ammonites on the east of the Jordan and apparently attached to Heshbon

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: for H5856

Usage:

This word is used 40 times:

 

Genesis 12:8: "of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east:"
Genesis 13:3: "his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;"
Joshua 7:2: "sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven,"
Joshua 7:2: "the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai."
Joshua 7:3: "go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people"
Joshua 7:4: "and they fled before the men of Ai."
Joshua 7:5: "And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased"
Joshua 8:1: "with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand"
Joshua 8:1: "into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:"
Joshua 8:2: "And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only"
Joshua 8:3: "the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand"
Joshua 8:9: "and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua"
Joshua 8:9: "Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that"
Joshua 8:10: "of Israel, before the people to Ai."
Joshua 8:11: "the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai."
Joshua 8:11: "on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai."
Joshua 8:12: "them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city."
Joshua 8:14: "And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city"
Joshua 8:16: "And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued"
Joshua 8:17: "And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out"
Joshua 8:18: "that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua"
Joshua 8:20: "And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city"
Joshua 8:21: "and slew the men of Ai."
Joshua 8:23: "And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua."
Joshua 8:24: "all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased"
Joshua 8:24: "that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword."
Joshua 8:25: "were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai."
Joshua 8:26: "he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai."
Joshua 8:28: "And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation"
Joshua 8:29: "And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide:"
Joshua 9:3: "Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,"
Joshua 10:1: "Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho"
Joshua 10:1: "and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon"
Joshua 10:2: "it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty."
Joshua 12:9: "of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel,"
Ezra 2:28: "The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three."
Nehemiah 7:32: "The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty and three."
Nehemiah 11:31: "also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,"
Isaiah 10:28: "He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:"
Jeremiah 49:3: "Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah,"