אוֹי
ʼôwy · H188 · Hebrew · 24 occurrences
Meanings
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woe
Exclamation expressing grief and dismay
Examples1 Samuel 4:7 So the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp!” And they said, “Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.
1 Samuel 4:8 “Woe to us! Who will save us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
Proverbs 23:29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has red eyes?
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 it is said to bePredicate
20 occurrences in 8 groups
- נִיme 6
- נוּus 5
- ךָּyou 2
- ךְyou 2
- הֶםthem 2
- מִיwho? 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- עִירcity, town 2
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
- בִּי bîy · H994 · please
- Both are interjections expressing distress or lament, functioning as emotive exclamations meaning roughly "alas."
- אֲהָהּ ʼăhâhh · H162 · alas
- Both words are Hebrew interjections expressing distress or lament, as distinct words substitutable in sense.
- הוֹ hôw · H1930 · alas!
- Both are Hebrew interjections expressing distress, lament, or warning, capable of substituting for one another as emotional exclamations.
- אַלְלַי ʼalᵉlay · H480 · woe! alas!
- Both words are interjections expressing distress or lament.
In the other Testament 1 word
- οὐαί ouaí · G3759 · disaster, horror
- Greek οὐαί renders Hebrew אוֹי as the direct cross-linguistic equivalent for expressing lamentation, grief, and prophetic judgment pronouncements.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Evaluators004005
- אוֹי is an exclamation of woe or distress, as the cry "Woe to you, Moab" pronounced over that nation's destruction.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H188. oy אוֺי interjection (onomatopoetic; compare , ) woe! an impassioned expression of…
אוֺי interjection (onomatopoetic; compare , ) woe! an impassioned expression of grief and despair: usually with dative לִי אוֺי Isa 6:5 woe to me! for I am undone, so Isa 24:16; Jer 10:19; Jer 15:10; לָנוּ אוֺי woe to us! 1Sa 4:7-8, Jer 4:13; Jer 6:4; לִי אוֺינָֿא Jer 4:31; Jer 45:3; לָנוּ אוֺינָֿא Lam 5:16. With the 2nd or 3rd person often implying a denunciation; מוֺאָב אוֺילְֿךָ Num 21:29 (= Jer 48:46) Jer 13:27; Eze 16:23 repeated לָח אוֺי אוֺי; Isa 3:9 לְנַפְשָׁם אוֺי Isa 3:11; Hos 7:13; Hos 9:12 (|| לָהֶם שֹׁד). With a voc. (or implicit accusative) Eze 24:6, Eze 24:9 הַדָּמִים עִיר אוֺי; absolute Num 24:23. Used as a substantive Pro 23:29 אוֺי לְמִי (|| אֲבוֺי לְמִי).
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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