אָח
ʼâch · H253 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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any
Marker identifying the activity that follows as one of a range of similar activities
ExamplesEzekiel 18:10 “However, he may father a violent son who sheds blood, and does any one of these things to a brother
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brother! alas!
Exclamation expressing grief and dismay
ExamplesEzekiel 6:11 “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Clap your hands, stamp your foot and say, “Woe, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by the sword, famine, and plague!
Ezekiel 21:15 so that their hearts will waver, and many fall at all their gates. I have granted the slaughter of the sword. Oh! It is made for striking like lightning, it is sharpened in readiness for slaughter.
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
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 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 1 word
- הִי hîy · H1958 · woe
- Both lexemes are genuine interjections expressing grief, lament, or woe—classic near-synonyms within a narrow expressive/evaluative function.
Semantic domains 7 entries
- Relatives001001003012
- This form of אָח is an interjection, "ah" or "alas," distinct from the kinship noun "brother" that shares its domain listing; the two are homographs sharing this consonantal spelling, not the same word (2 Samuel 1:26, tagged under the kinship-noun form אָח (ʼâch, H251) rather than under this interjection's own occurrences).
- Friends001001003003
- This entry carries no independent “Friends” sense of its own; every occurrence of this lexeme is the interjection “alas!”, as in “Woe, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel” (Ezekiel 6:11). The domain is bundle-shared with the homographic kinship noun (אָח (ʼâch, H251)) and hearth noun (אָח (ʼâch, H254)).
- Titles003001017
- The interjection "alas" expresses lament over coming judgment, as the cry "Oh! It is made for striking like lightning" over the sword's slaughter (Ezekiel 21:15, the address this lexeme's own tagged occurrence in "21:20" of the critical text's Hebrew numbering actually corresponds to in the English versification, per this project's own documented Ezekiel 21 local drift).
- Object Referents003001
- This entry carries no independent “Object Referents” sense of its own; every occurrence of this lexeme is the interjection “alas!”: “Woe, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel” (Ezekiel 6:11). The domain is bundle-shared with אָח (ʼâch, H251) and אָח (ʼâch, H254).
- Identifiers004003
- This entry carries no independent “Identifiers” sense of its own; every occurrence of this lexeme is the interjection “alas!”: “Woe, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel” (Ezekiel 6:11). The domain is bundle-shared with אָח (ʼâch, H251) and אָח (ʼâch, H254).
- Evaluators004005
- As an interjection, אָח functions evaluatively, expressing the speaker's grief at the coming judgment, "Alas! Because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel" (Ezekiel 6:11).
- Furnaces001003001001007
- This entry carries no independent “Furnaces” sense of its own; every occurrence of this lexeme is the interjection “alas!”, not the homographic hearth noun. The domain is bundle-shared with אָח (ʼâch, H251) and אָח (ʼâch, H254).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root אֲהָהּ
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H253. ach III. אָח interjection (onomatopoetic) ah! alas! Eze 6:11; Eze 21:20. **Eze…
III. אָח interjection (onomatopoetic) ah! alas! Eze 6:11; Eze 21:20. **Eze 18:10 אָח is a vox nihili (dittograph from following אחד: see Commentaries): in Eze 21:10 also dubious (ᵐ5 εὖ), read אַח Ew Hi Sm Toy, חַדָּה Co Berthol, אַתְּ Oort Krae.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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