אֵיפֹהʼêyphôh
here
Pronunciation: ay-fo' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H375
Meanings
1. where? (Genesis 37:16; 1 Samuel 19:22; 2 Samuel 9:4)
2. of what kind? (Judges 8:18)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 37:16 “I’m looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Do you know where they are pasturing their sheep?”
- Judges 8:18 Then Gideon asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “The men you killed at Tabor—what were they like?” “Like you,” they replied. “They all had the look of a king’s son.”
- Ruth 2:19 “Where did you gather all this grain today?” Naomi asked. “Where did you work? May the Lord bless the one who helped you!” So Ruth told her mother-in-law about the man in whose field she had worked. She said, “The man I worked with today is named Boaz.”
- 1 Samuel 19:22 Finally, Saul himself went to Ramah and arrived at the great well in Secu. “Where are Samuel and David?” he demanded. “They are at Naioth in Ramah,” someone told him.
- 2 Samuel 9:4 “Where is he?” the king asked. “In Lo-debar,” Ziba told him, “at the home of Makir son of Ammiel.”
- Job 4:7 “Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed?
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).