338. i
Lexicon
i: there is, there are

Original Word: אִי
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: iy
Pronunciation: yesh
Phonetic Spelling: (ee)
KJV: wild beast of the islands
NASB: Hyenas, jackals, wolves
Word Origin: [probably identical with H337 (אִי - woe) (through the idea of a doleful sound)]

1. (properly) a howler
2. any solitary wild creature
{used only in the plural}

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
wild beast of the islands

Probably identical with 'iy (through the idea of a doleful sound); a howler (used only in the plural), i.e. Any solitary wild creature; --wild beast of the islands.

see HEBREW 'iy

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from oy
Definition
a jackal
NASB Translation
Hyenas (1), jackals (1), wolves (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
II. [אִי] noun masculine jackal (howler, for *אָוִי see BaNB 188, compare Arabic , whence ) — plural אִיִּים, Isaiah 13:22; Isaiah 34:14; Jeremiah 50:39 (inhabitant of desert, ruin).

Forms and Transliterations
אִיִּ֔ים אִיִּים֙ איים ’î·yîm ’îyîm iYim
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Englishman's Concordance
Isaiah 13:22
HEB: וְעָנָ֤ה אִיִּים֙ בְּאַלְמנוֹתָ֔יו וְתַנִּ֖ים
NAS: Hyenas will howl in their fortified
KJV: And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry
INT: shall cry Hyenas their fortified and dragons

Isaiah 34:14
HEB: צִיִּים֙ אֶת־ אִיִּ֔ים וְשָׂעִ֖יר עַל־
NAS: will meet with the wolves, The hairy goat
KJV: shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr
INT: of the desert with the wolves the hairy unto

Jeremiah 50:39
HEB: צִיִּים֙ אֶת־ אִיִּ֔ים וְיָ֥שְׁבוּ בָ֖הּ
NAS: [there] along with the jackals; The ostriches
KJV: Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell
INT: of the desert along the jackals will live first

3 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 338
3 Occurrences


’î·yîm — 3 Occ.

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