Genesis 36:24 has Ayah as the brother of Anah (עֲנָה), whose daughter Ahali-Vamah married Esav (Esau); their father was Tsiv'on ha Chori/Chivi (the Horite or Hivite; both are given in this chapter).
2 Samuel 3:7 says that Sha'ul had a concubine named Ritspah bat Ayah, by whom he had two sons (2 Samuel 21:8) Armoni and Mephi-Boshet; however 2 Samuel 9 regards Mephi-Boshet as Sha'ul's grandson, one of the sons of Yehonatan (Jonathan). This may be a confusion with Ish-Boshet, who appears in 2 Samuel 2:10, but elsewhere is called Ish-Ba'al, and who became the king of Yisra-El after the death of Sha'ul, only to become the object of a coup by Av-Ner, when he complained that Av-Ner had taken Ritspah bat Ayah as his concubine. King David later gave Mephi-Boshet as one of the hostages to settle a feud with the Beney Giv-On (Gibeonites).
The word AYAH is linked etymologically to hawk, vulture, falcon, and is probably the kite; all unclean birds according to Leviticus 11:14 and Deuteronomy 14:13, but also very much the royal bird, and sacred to the sun-god. Job 28:7 claims that it had remarkable acuteness of sight.
Not to be confused with Ai, the royal city of the Beney Kena'an, which Yehoshu'a destroyed.
The word AYAH is linked etymologically to hawk, vulture, falcon, and is probably the kite; all unclean birds according to Leviticus 11:14 and Deuteronomy 14:13, but also very much the royal bird, and sacred to the sun-god. Job 28:7 claims that it had remarkable acuteness of sight.
Not to be confused with Ai, the royal city of the Beney Kena'an, which Yehoshu'a destroyed.
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