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Lexicon :: Strong's H188 - 'ôy

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אוֹי
Transliteration
'ôy
Pronunciation
o'-ee
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Part of Speech
interjection
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from אָוָה (H183) (in the sense of crying out after)
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TWOT Reference: 42

Strong’s Definitions

אוֹי ʼôwy, o'-ee; probably from H183 (in the sense of crying out after); lamentation; also interjectionally Oh!:—alas, woe.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x

The KJV translates Strong's H188 in the following manner: woe (23x), alas (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x
The KJV translates Strong's H188 in the following manner: woe (23x), alas (1x).

  1. woe! alas! oh!

    1. passionate cry of grief or despair

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אוֹי ʼôwy, o'-ee; probably from H183 (in the sense of crying out after); lamentation; also interjectionally Oh!:—alas, woe.
STRONGS H188: Abbreviations
† אוֺי interjection (onomatopoetic; compare yuvA, yxv) woe! an impassioned expression of grief and despair: usually with dative אוֺי לִי Isaiah 6:5 woe to me! for I am undone, so Isaiah 24:16; Jeremiah 10:19; Jeremiah 15:10; אוֺי לָנוּ woe to us! 1 Samuel 4:7, 8; Jeremiah 4:13; Jeremiah 6:4; אוֺינָֿא לִי Jeremiah 4:31; Jeremiah 45:3; אוֺינָֿא לָנוּ Lamentations 5:16. With the 2nd or 3rd person often implying a denunciation; אוֺילְֿךָ מוֺאָב Numbers 21:29 (= Jeremiah 48:46) Jeremiah 13:27; Ezekiel 16:23 repeated אוֺי אוֺי לָח; Isaiah 3:9 אוֺי לְנַפְשָׁם Isaiah 3:11; Hosea 7:13; Hosea 9:12 (|| שֹׁד לָהֶם). With a voc. (or implicit accusative) Ezekiel 24:6, 9 אוֺי עִיר הַדָּמִים; absolute Numbers 24:23. Used as a substantive Proverbs 23:29 לְמִי אוֺי (|| לְמִי אֲבוֺי).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

21:29; 24:23

1 Samuel

4:7; 4:8

Proverbs

23:29

Isaiah

3:9; 3:11; 6:5; 24:16

Jeremiah

4:13; 4:31; 6:4; 10:19; 13:27; 15:10; 45:3; 48:46

Lamentations

5:16

Ezekiel

16:23; 24:6; 24:9

Hosea

7:13; 9:12

H188

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Strong's Number H188 matches the Hebrew אוֹי ('ôy),
which occurs 24 times in 23 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:29

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 BoxNum 24:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:23 - And he looked upon Og, and took up his parable and said, Oh, oh, who shall live, when God shall [fn]do these things?

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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 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 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 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:5 - And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.

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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 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 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:31 - For I have heard thy groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, saying, Woe is me! for my soul faints because of the slain.

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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 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:10 - Woe is me, my mother! thou hast born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped others, nor has any one helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:3 - (LXX 51:33) Whereas thou hast said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;

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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 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:23 - And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, saith the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:6 - Therefore thus saith the Lord; O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:9 - Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will also make the firebrand great,

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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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