Joshua 7:2
And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
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Ai
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Jeremiah 49:3
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
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עַי
ʻAy · ah'ee
36 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine
Strong's KJV usage: Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.
Strong's first: Joshua 7:2Strong's last: Jeremiah 49:3
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H5857
For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
H5857
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
H5857
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
H5857
And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
H5857
Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
H5857
Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
H5857
That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.
H5857
The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
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