Strong's #349: 'eyk (pronounced ake)
also eykah {ay-kaw'}; and teykakah {ay-kaw'-kah}; prolonged from 335; how? or how!; also where:--how, what.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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'êyk / 'êykâh / 'êykâkâh
1) how? (interrogative adverb)
2) how! (in lamentation) (interjection)
3) expression of satisfaction (interjection)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: prolonged from H335
Usage:
This word is used 82 times:
Isaiah 48:11: "even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give"
Jeremiah 2:21: "wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned plant of a strange vine"
Jeremiah 2:23: " How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim?"
Jeremiah 3:19: "But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land,"
Jeremiah 8:8: " How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo,"
Jeremiah 9:7: "I will melt them, and try how shall I do for the daughter"
Jeremiah 9:19: "of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly"
Jeremiah 12:5: "with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with and if in the land"
Jeremiah 12:5: "of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?"
Jeremiah 36:17: "saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write these"
Jeremiah 47:7: " How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea"
Jeremiah 48:14: " How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?"
Jeremiah 48:17: "ye that know his name, say, How staff broken, and the beautiful"
Jeremiah 48:39: "They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame!"
Jeremiah 48:39: "They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame!"
Jeremiah 49:25: " How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!"
Jeremiah 50:23: " How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon"
Jeremiah 50:23: "earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon a desolation among the nations!"
Jeremiah 51:41: " How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how"
Jeremiah 51:41: "of the whole earth surprised! how become an astonishment among the nations!"
Lamentations 1:1: " How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!"
Lamentations 2:1: " How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down"
Lamentations 4:1: " How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary"
Lamentations 4:2: "of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen the work"
Ezekiel 26:17: "a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men,"
Ezekiel 33:10: "be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?"
Hosea 11:8: " How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah?"
Hosea 11:8: "Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? thee as Zeboim?"
Obadiah 1:5: "to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) have stolen till they had enough?"
Obadiah 1:6: " How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!"
Micah 2:4: "utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided"
Zephaniah 2:15: "I beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down"
