# H5857 עַי

עַי (ʻAy), Strong’s H5857: Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine KJV: Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.. Occurs 39 times.

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*ʻAy* — Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine

KJV: Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.

Occurs 39 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עַי, עַיָּ֑ת, עַיָּה 40 n.pr.loc.
- 1 old Canaanit. city
- 2 E. Jordan city

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 12:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=8) — He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai…
- [Genesis 13:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=3) — He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between…
- [Joshua 7:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=2) — Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying…
- [Joshua 7:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=3) — They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go…
- [Joshua 7:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=4) — So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.
- [Joshua 7:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=5) — The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck…
- [Joshua 8:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=1) — The LORD said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to…
- [Joshua 8:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=2) — You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock…
- [Joshua 8:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=3) — So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and…
- [Joshua 8:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=9) — Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but…