הוֹ
hôw · H1930 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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alas!
Exclamation expressing grief and dismay
ExamplesAmos 5:16 Therefore this is what the LORD God of armies, the Lord says: “There is mourning in all the public squares, And in all the streets they say, ‘Oh no! Oh no!’ They also call the farmer to mourning And professional mourners to mourning rites.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָמַרto say 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
- אוֹיָה ʼôwyâh · H190 · woe
- Both words are exclamatory interjections expressing grief or distress and could substitute for each other in Hebrew discourse.
- אַלְלַי ʼalᵉlay · H480 · woe! alas!
- Both words are exclamatory interjections expressing lament or distress, with closely overlapping sense and function; each occurs only twice.
- בִּי bîy · H994 · please
- Both words are interjections expressing emotion (distress or plea), and can substitute for each other in lamenting or petitionary contexts.
- אוֹי ʼôwy · H188 · woe
- Both are Hebrew interjections expressing distress, lament, or warning, capable of substituting for one another as emotional exclamations.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Evaluators004005
- הוֹ is an interjection of lament, an exclamation of alas expressing distress, as in Amos's cry over coming judgment.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1930. ho הוֺ interjection id quod the more usual הוֺי (q. v.) Ah! Amo 5:16 of mourners…
הוֺ interjection id quod the more usual הוֺי (q. v.) Ah! Amo 5:16 of mourners חוֺהֿוֺ יאֹמְרוּ וּבְכָלחֿוּצוֺת.
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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