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# אֲבוֹי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H17

**Oh!** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Oh! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/17/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבוֹי: interj. Oh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/17/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** interj. exclam. of pain, Oh! Pr 23:29 (‖ אוֹי woe!). Prob. akin to Syriac ܐܘܽܒܺܝܰܐ alas …! PS 53 (AW Ges less prob. as a subst. need from אָבָה, cf. אֶבְיוֹן).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: woe (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 23:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.29/#tree)

לְמִ֨י א֥וֹי לְמִ֪י אֲב֡וֹי לְמִ֤י מִדְיָנִ֨ים ׀ לְמִ֥י שִׂ֗יחַ לְ֭מִי פְּצָעִ֣ים חִנָּ֑ם לְ֝מִ֗י חַכְלִל֥וּת עֵינָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* \[belongs\].to whom? woe \[belongs\].to whom? woe \[belong\].to whom? contentions \[belongs\].to whom? complaint \[belong\].to whom? bruises without.cause \[belongs\].to whom? dullness of.eyes

*JPS 1917:* Who crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? who hath contentions? who hath raving? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/17.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/17/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).