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Lexicon :: Strong's G3759 - ouai

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οὐαί
Transliteration
ouai (Key)
Pronunciation
oo-ah'-ee
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Part of Speech
interjection
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary exclamation of grief
mGNT
46x in 2 unique form(s) TR
47x in 4 unique form(s) LXX
59x in 3 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

οὐαί ouaí, oo-ah'-ee; a primary exclamation of grief; "woe":—alas, woe.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x

The KJV translates Strong's G3759 in the following manner: woe (41x), alas (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x
The KJV translates Strong's G3759 in the following manner: woe (41x), alas (6x).

  1. alas, woe

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
οὐαί ouaí, oo-ah'-ee; a primary exclamation of grief; "woe":—alas, woe.
STRONGS G3759:
οὐαί, an interjection of grief or of denunciation; the Sept. chiefly for הוי and אוי; "Alas! Woe!" with a dat of person added, Matthew 11:21; Matthew 18:7; Matthew 23:13-16, 23, 25, 27, 29; Matthew 24:19; Matthew 26:24; Mark 13:17; Mark 14:21; Luke 6:24-26; Luke 10:13; Luke 11:42-44, 46f, 52; Luke 21:23; Luke 22:22; Jude 1:11; Revelation 12:12 R G L, small edition. (see below) (Numbers 21:29; Isaiah 3:9, and often in the Sept.); thrice repeated, and followed by a dative, Revelation 8:13 R G L WH marginal reading (see below); the dative is omitted in Luke 17:1; twice repeated and followed by a nominative in place of a vocative, Revelation 18:10, 16, 19 (Isaiah 1:24; Isaiah 5:8-22; Habakkuk 2:6, 12, etc.); exceptionally, with an accusative of the person, in Revelation 8:13 T Tr WH text, and Revelation 12:12 L T Tr WH; this accusative, I think, must be regarded either as an accusative of exclamation (cf. Matthiae, § 410), or as an imitation of the construction of the accusative after verbs of injuring (Buttmann, § 131, 14 judges otherwise); with the addition of ἀπό and a genitive of the evil the infliction of which is deplored (cf. Buttmann, 322 (277); Winer's Grammar, 371 (348)), Matthew 18:7; also of ἐκ, Revelation 8:13. As a substantive, ἡ οὐαί (the writer seems to have been led to use the feminine by the similarity of ἡ θλῖψις or ἡ ταλαιπωρία; cf. Winers Grammar, 179 (169)) woe, calamity: Revelation 9:12; Revelation 11:14; δύο οὐαί, Revelation 9:12 (οὐαί ἐπί οὐαί ἔσται, Ezekiel 7:26; οὐαί ἡμᾶς λήψεται Evang. Nicod c. 21 (Pars ii., 5:1 (edited by Tdf.))); so also in the phrase οὐαί μοι ἐστιν, woe is unto me, i. e. divine penalty threatens me, 1 Corinthians 9:16, cf. Hosea 9:12; (Jeremiah 6:4); Epictetus diss. 3, 19, 1 (frequent in ecclesiastical writings).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Numbers
21:29
Isaiah
1:24; 3:9; 5:8; 5:9; 5:10; 5:11; 5:12; 5:13; 5:14; 5:15; 5:16; 5:17; 5:18; 5:19; 5:20; 5:21; 5:22
Jeremiah
6:4
Ezekiel
7:26
Hosea
9:12
Habakkuk
2:6; 2:12
Matthew
11:21; 18:7; 18:7; 23:13; 23:14; 23:15; 23:16; 23:23; 23:25; 23:27; 23:29; 24:19; 26:24
Mark
13:17; 14:21
Luke
6:24; 6:25; 6:26; 10:13; 11:42; 11:43; 11:44; 11:46; 11:52; 17:1; 21:23; 22:22
1 Corinthians
9:16
Jude
1:11
Revelation
8:13; 8:13; 8:13; 9:12; 9:12; 11:14; 12:12; 12:12; 18:10; 18:16; 18:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3759 matches the Greek οὐαί (ouai),
which occurs 59 times in 55 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Num 21:29–Nah 3:17)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:29 - Woe to thee, Moab; thou art lost, thou people of Chamos: their sons are sold for preservation, and their daughters are captives to Seon king of the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:7 - And the Philistines feared, and said, These are the Gods that are come to them into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8 - Woe to us, O Lord, deliver us to-day, for such a thing has not happened aforetime: woe to us, who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote Egypt with every plague, and in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:21 - And she called the child Uæbarchaboth, because of the ark of God, and because of her father-in-law, and because of her husband.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:30 - and they bewailed him, saying, Alas, brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:29 - Who has woe? who trouble? who has quarrels? and who vexations and disputes? who has bruises without a cause? whose eyes are livid?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:10 - For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls, and there is not a second to lift him up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:16 - Woe to thee, O city, whose king is young, and thy princes eat in the morning!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:4 - Ah sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children: ye have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:24 - Therefore thus saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Woe to the mighty men of Israel; for my wrath shall not cease against mine adversaries, and I will execute judgment on mine enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:9 - Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:11 - Woe to the transgressor! evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:8 - Woe to them that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbour's: will ye dwell alone upon the land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:11 - Woe to them that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait at it till the evening: for the wine shall inflame them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 - Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:20 - Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:21 - Woe to them that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:22 - Woe to the strong ones of you that drink wine, and the mighty ones that mingle strong drink:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1 - Woe to them that write wickedness; for when they write they do write wickedness,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:5 - Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of my wrath, and anger are in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:12 - Woe to the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall ye be confounded; and the [fn]force of many nations shall sound like water;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:1 - Woe to you, ye wings of the land of ships, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:16 - O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, and there is hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that despise the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:1 - Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:1 - [fn]Alas for the city Ariel, which David [fn]besieged. Gather ye fruits year by year; eat ye, for ye shall eat with Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:15 - Woe to them that deepen their counsel, and not by the Lord. Woe to them that take secret counsel, and whose works [fn]are in darkness, and they say, Who has seen us? and who shall know us, or what we do?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:1 - Woe to the apostate children, saith the Lord: ye have framed counsel, not by me, and covenants not by my Spirit, to add sins to sins:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:1 - Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses and chariots, for they are many; and in horses, which are a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:1 - Woe to them that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable: and he that deals perfidiously with you does not deal perfidiously: they that deal perfidiously shall be taken and given up, and as a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:13 - Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are in misery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:4 - Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:19 - Alas for thy ruin! thy plague is grievous: and I said, Surely this is thy wound, and it has overtaken thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27 - thine adultery also, and thy neighing, and the looseness of thy fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not been purified so as to follow me; how long yet shall it be?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 - Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim son of Josias, king of Juda, even concerning this man; they shall not bewail him, saying, Ah brother! neither shall they at all weep for him, saying, Alas Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 - (LXX 26:19) O daughter of Egypt dwelling at home, prepare thee stuff for removing: for Memphis shall be utterly desolate, and shall be called Woe, because there are no inhabitants in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:1 - (LXX 31:1) Thus has the Lord said concerning Moab, Woe to Nabau! for it has perished: Cariathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27 - (LXX 27:27) Dry ye up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:2 - (LXX 28:2) And I will send forth against Babylon spoilers, and they shall spoil her, and shall ravage her land. Woe to Babylon round about her in the day of her affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:16 - The crown has fallen from our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:10 - And he unrolled it before me: and in it the front and the back were written upon: and there was written in it Lamentation, and mournful song, and woe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:26 - There shall be woe upon woe, and there shall be message upon message; and a vision shall be sought from a prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:3 - Thus saith the Lord, Woe to them that prophesy out of their own heart, and who see nothing at all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:18 - And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Woe to the women that sew pillows under every elbow, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert souls! The souls of my people are perverted, and they have saved souls alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:13 - Woe to them! for they have started aside from me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:12 - For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: wherefore also there is woe to them, though my flesh is of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:16 - Therefore thus saith the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets shall be lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:18 - Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:1 - Woe to them that set at nought Sion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria: they have gathered the harvest of the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:4 - therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a rigid rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, thy times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 - Thy mixed multitude has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place: woe to them!

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