Strong's H5857 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: עַי (ʻAy)

Pronunciation: ah'ee

Morphology: n-pr-loc

Name Meaning: Ai or Aija or Aiath or Hai = "heap of ruins"

Derivation: or (feminine) עַיָּא (ʻAyâʼ); (Nehemiah 11:31), or עַיָּת (ʻAyâth); (Isaiah 10:28), for עִי (ʻîy) [H5856];

Definition: Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine

KJV Renderings: Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.

Senses

1. a city lying east of Bethel and beside Bethaven near Jericho and the second city taken on the invasion of Canaan
2. a city of the Ammonites on the east of the Jordan and apparently attached to Heshbon

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.