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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 15 times in 13 verses in 'Luk' in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:24 - “But woe G3759 to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:25 - “Woe G3759 to you who [fn]are well-fed now, for you will be hungry. Woe G3759 to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:26 - “Woe G3759 to you when all the people speak well of you; for their fathers used to [fn]treat the false prophets the same way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:13 -

“Woe G3759 to you, Chorazin! Woe G3759 to you, Bethsaida! For if the [fn]miracles that occurred in you had occurred in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in [fn]sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:42 -

“But woe G3759 to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every kind of garden herb, and yet you [fn]ignore justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:43 - “Woe G3759 to you Pharisees! For you love the seat of honor in the synagogues and personal greetings in the marketplaces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:44 - “Woe G3759 to you! For you are like [fn]unseen tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:46 - But He said, “Woe G3759 to you lawyers as well! For you load people with burdens that are hard to bear, [fn]while you yourselves will not even [fn]touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:47 - “Woe G3759 to you! For you build the [fn]tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:52 - “Woe G3759 to you [fn]lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:1 -

Now He said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that [fn]stumbling blocks come, but woe G3759 to one through whom they come!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:23 - “Woe G3759 to those women who are pregnant, and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for there will be great distress upon the [fn]land, and wrath to this people;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:22 - “For indeed, the Son of Man is going as it has been determined; but woe G3759 to that man by whom He is betrayed!”
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