e.phoh is an interrogative particle used to ask about a person’s, action’s, or event’s location.

Across the supplied verses, this interrogative particle introduces questions about location, whereabouts, or the place in which something occurred, including inquiries after people, past actions, and an event's origin.

1. Interrogative inquiry about location or whereabouts · dominant

   The supplied forms are all tagged Particle · Interrogative. In 2 Samuel 9:4 the APB renders the king's question, “Where is he?”; in Genesis 37:16 it asks where the brothers are pasturing; and in Job 38:4 it asks where the hearer was when the earth's foundation was laid. The same interrogative use appears in questions concerning men in Judges 8:18, work and gleaning in Ruth 2:19, and the origin of those brought up in Isaiah 49:21.

   2 Samuel 9:4Genesis 37:16Job 38:4Judges 8:18Ruth 2:19Isaiah 49:21

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the interrogative with “where,” including questions about persons, actions, and prior circumstances. Its English wording only confirms the verse-level question.