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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 47 times in 36 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:21 - Woe to thee, Chorazin; woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:7 - Woe to the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:13 - But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering, to go in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:14 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:15 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:16 - Woe to you, ye blind guides, who say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:23 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ye ought to have done, and not to leave the others undone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:25 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:27 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitened sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:29 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:19 - And woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:24 - The Son of man goeth, as it is written concerning him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man, if he had not been born.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:17 - But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:21 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written concerning him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:24 - But woe to you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:25 - Woe to you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe to you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:26 - Woe to you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:13 - Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:42 - But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others undone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:43 - Woe to you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:44 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:46 - And he said, Woe to you also, ye lawyers, for ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:47 - Woe to you! for ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:52 - Woe to you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye have not entered in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:1 - Then he said to the disciples, It is impossible but that causes of sin will come: but woe to him by whom they come!

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:23 - But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:22 - And truly the Son of man goeth as it was determined: but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:16 - For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:11 - Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and run greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 8:13 - And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:12 - One woe is past; and behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:14 - The second woe is past; and behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:12 - Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea! for the devil is come down to you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:10 - Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:16 - And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:19 - And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her opulence! for in one hour is she made desolate.
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