From where / Whence
From where? Whence?
("And David said to him, ‘From where do you come?’ And he said to him, ‘I have escaped from the camp of Israel’" – 2 Samuel 1:3 (David to a man from Saul’s camp); and: "And whence comes my sigh, do you know? / My mother was widowed, her sons orphaned" – H.N. Bialik, My Song)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
אֵי מִזֶּה
Definition (Hebrew)
מֵהֵיכָן?
("וַיֹּאמֶר לוֹ דָּוִד אֵי מִזֶּה תָּבוֹא וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו מִמַּחֲנֵה יִשְׂרָאֵל נִמְלָטְתִּי" - שְׁמוּאֵל ב א, ג (דָּוִד לְאִישׁ מַחֲנֵה שָׁאוּל), וְכֵן: "וְאִי מִזֶּה תָּבֹא אַנְחָתִי יָדַעְתָּ? / אִמִּי נִתְאַלְמְנָה, בָּנֶיהָ נִתְיַתְּמוּ" - ח.נ. בְּיָאלִיק, שֵׁרַתִּי)