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עַי

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§ Ai or Aija or Aiath or Hai = "heap of ruins" a city of the Ammonites on the east of the Jordan and apparently attached to Heshbon

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

עַי, עַיָּ֑ת, עַיָּה₄₀ proper name, of a location Αγγαι (Genesis), Γαι:

1. old Canaanite city, עַי always with article הָעַי (הָעָ֑י Gen 13:3 +), near Bethel to the southeast (exact site unknown, compare Di^{Josh 7:2} Buhl^{Geogr. 177}), Gen 12:8 (J), Gen 13:3 (J), Josh 7:2 (twice in verse); Josh 7:3; Josh 7:4; Josh 7:5; Josh 8:1 (twice in verse); Josh 8:2; Josh 8:3 + 18 t. Josh 8 (+ Qr vJosh 8:12 vJosh 8:16, but improbable, Kt עיר, compare Di), Josh 9:3; Josh 10:1 (twice in verse); Josh 10:2 (all J E), Josh 12:9 (D), Ezra 2:28 = Neh 7:32 = עַיָּת Isa 10:28 עַיָּה (so Baer Ginsb, > עַיָּא van d. H.) Neh 11:31, so read also (for עַזָּה q. v. near the end) 1Chr 7:28.

2. east Jordan city Jer 49:3 (+ חֶשְׁבוֺן), but read עָר city (?) Gf Rothst^Kau Co (הָעִיר ?).

עִי see I. עוה. עַיָּא see עַי. עיב see עוב.

עֵיבָל see עוֺבָל below עבל. עַיָּה see עַי. p. 716, above

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