Strong's Definition
probably identical with 369 in the sense of query (compare 336); --where? (only in connection with prepositional prefix, whence)
KJV Usage: whence, where
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אַ֫יִן (a.yin) — where?. where?, whence?
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
inter
Spatial Referents
Collocation: מֵאַיִן
from where? = referent to an unknown location; ► normally used with the purpose of finding out from which location a person or object originates; ≈ sometimes used in rhetorical questions expressing one's conviction that that location does not exist
GEN 29:4 · GEN 42:7 · NUM 11:13 · JOS 2:4 · JOS 9:8 · JDG 17:9 · JDG 19:17 · 2KI 5:25 · 2KI 6:27 · 2KI 20:14 · JOB 1:7 · JOB 28:12 · JOB 28:20 · PSA 121:1 · ISA 39:3 · JON 1:8 · NAM 3:7
1 JOB 35:15 MT פָּקַד, but should probably be read as פֹּקֵד 2 LAM 5:3 MT-K אין | MT-Q וְאֵין 3 LAM 5:7 MT-K אינם | MT-Q וְאֵינָם 4 2KI 5:25 MT-Q | MT-K מֵאָן
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[אַ֫יִן] adv. whence? base