אֲהָהּ
ʼăhâhh · H162 · Hebrew · 15 occurrences
Meanings
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alas
Exclamation expressing grief and dismay
ExamplesJoshua 7:7 And Joshua said, “Oh, Lord GOD! Why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan, only to hand us over to the Amorites, to eliminate us? If only we had been willing to live beyond the Jordan!
Judges 6:22 When Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the LORD, he said, “Oh, Lord GOD! For I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”
Judges 11:35 So when he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Oh, my daughter! You have brought me disaster, and you are among those who trouble me; for I have given my word to the LORD, and I cannot take it back.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָמַרto say 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יוֹםday, time 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 4 words
- אַלְלַי ʼalᵉlay · H480 · woe! alas!
- Both lexemes are Hebrew exclamations/interjections expressing lament, distress, or grief—genuine same-language near-synonyms that could substitute for one another in appropriate contexts.
- אוֹי ʼôwy · H188 · woe
- Both words are Hebrew interjections expressing distress or lament, as distinct words substitutable in sense.
- הֶאָח heʼâch · H1889 · aha
- Both are Hebrew exclamatory interjections rendered "ah," functioning as emotive particles that could substitute for one another as expressions of surprise or evaluation.
- בִּי bîy · H994 · please
- Both are Hebrew interjections of distress or lamentation, functioning interchangeably as exclamations of grief.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὦ ō · G5599 · as a sign of the vocative case, O; as a note of exclamation, oh
- Both express vocative address or exclamatory emotion (grief, distress), though Greek ὦ has broader vocative function while Hebrew אֲהָהּ is specifically exclamatory/lamentative.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Evaluators004005
- אֲהָהּ is an exclamation of distress or lament, as Joshua's cry "Alas, Lord GOD" after Israel's defeat at Ai.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H162. ahah אֲהָהּ ( ) interjection alas! Jdg 11:35; 2Ki 3:10; 2Ki 6:5, 2Ki 6:15; with ל…
אֲהָהּ ( ) interjection alas! Jdg 11:35; 2Ki 3:10; 2Ki 6:5, 2Ki 6:15; with ל Joe 1:15 לַיּוֺם אֲהָהּ alas for the day! for etc. In the combination יֱהוִֺה אֲדֹנָי אֲהָהּ Jos 7:7; Jdg 6:22; Jer 1:6; Jer 4:10; Jer 14:13; Jer 32:17; Eze 4:14; Eze 9:8; Eze 11:13; Eze 21:5.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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