Strong's Hebrew #165 - אֱהִי ehi (where?)

where, I will be

Apparently an orthographical variation for 'ayeh; where -- I will be (Hos. 13:10, Hos. 13:14) (which is often the rendering of the same Hebrew form from hayah).

see HEBREW 'ayeh

see HEBREW hayah

1) where
Part of Speech: adverb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: apparently an orthographical variation for H346
Same Word by TWOT Number: 31

אֱהִי Hosea 13:10,14 (twice in verse) adverb where ? = אֵי, אַיֵּה. So ᵐ5 ᵑ6 ᵑ9 ᵑ7 AW in Hosea 13:10, & ᵐ5 ᵑ6 (compare 1 Corinthians 15:55) AW in Hosea 13:14. Taken by many of the older interpreters, and even by Ges in Hosea 13:14, as 1singular imperfect with apocope of היה I would be: but this is less suited to the context, and the jussive form is an objection, being unusual with the 1 person

I. אהל (settle down (?), Arabic be inhabited, compare Assyrian âlu, settlement, city, ma'âlu, ma'âltu, bed; Dl^W & ^{Prov 105}). **Nö^{ZMG xi (1886). 154, 720} doubts אֹהֶל = = âlu; but = dwelling actually in vulgar Arabic according to So^Buhl.

Strong's Hebrew: 165. אֱהִי (ehi) — 3 Occurrences

Hosea 13:10
HEB: אֱהִ֤י מַלְכְּךָ֙ אֵפ֔וֹא
NAS: Where now is your king
KJV: I will be thy king: where
INT: Where is your king now

Hosea 13:14
HEB: מִמָּ֖וֶת אֶגְאָלֵ֑ם אֱהִ֨י דְבָרֶיךָ֜ מָ֗וֶת
NAS: O Death, where are your thorns?
KJV: O death, I will be thy plagues;
INT: death will redeem where plagues death

Hosea 13:14
HEB: דְבָרֶיךָ֜ מָ֗וֶת אֱהִ֤י קָֽטָבְךָ֙ שְׁא֔וֹל
NAS: O Sheol, where is your sting?
KJV: O grave, I will be thy destruction:
INT: plagues death where destruction grave