ʿay עַי ‘Ai’ (Hebrew)
Etymology?:
for ʿī עִי ‘ruin’
Roots:
עי
ʿay pr n loc
Ai or Aija or Aiath or Hai = "heap of ruins"
1) a city lying east of Bethel and beside Bethaven near Jericho and the second city taken on the invasion of Canaan
2) a city of the Ammonites on the east of the Jordan and apparently attached to Heshbon