הֶאָח
heʼâch · H1889 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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aha
Marker expressing satisfaction
ExamplesJob 39:25 “As often as the trumpet sounds he says, ‘Aha!’ And he senses the battle from afar, And the thunder of the captains and the war cry.
Psalm 35:21 They opened their mouth wide against me; They said, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen it!”
Psalm 35:25 Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, our desire!” Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
How it’s used In 1 role
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
5 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָמַרto say 5
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 3 words
- בִּי bîy · H994 · please
- Both words are Hebrew interjections expressing an emotional or evaluative stance; הֶאָח tends toward exclamatory or derisive tones (“aha!”), while בִּי leans toward petition or entreaty (“O, alas”).
- הוֹי hôwy · H1945 · alas!, woe!
- Both are Hebrew interjections expressing emotional evaluation—exclamations of surprise, distress, or judgment—sharing the exclamatory sense "ah."
- אֲהָהּ ʼăhâhh · H162 · alas
- Both are Hebrew exclamatory interjections rendered "ah," functioning as emotive particles expressing surprise or evaluation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Evaluators004005
- הֶאָח is an interjection of exclamation, an expression of malicious satisfaction or scorn, as enemies cry "aha" over Israel's downfall in the prophetic laments.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1889. heach הֶאָח interjection (onomatopoetic) expressing joy, Aha! always introduced by…
הֶאָח interjection (onomatopoetic) expressing joy, Aha! always introduced by אָמַר, Isa 44:16 he says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. Of satisfaction over the misfortune of an enemy or rival, Psa 35:21; Psa 35:25 let them not say in their heart נַפְשֵׁנוּ הֶאָח Aha, so would we have it ! (lit our desire !) Psa 40:16 (= Psa 70:4), Eze 25:3; Eze 26:2; Eze 36:2. Metaph., of the neighing of a war horse in the battle, Job 39:25.
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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