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# אֲהָהּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H162

**alas!** — used 15 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

alas! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/162/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲהָהּ: interj. alas! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/162/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (آهْ, አህ ) interj. alas! Ju 11:35 2 K 3:10; 6:5, 15; with ל Jo 1:15 אֲהָהּ לַיוֹם alas for the day! for etc. In the combination אֲהָהּ אֲדֹנָי יֱהוִֹה Jos 7:7 Ju 6:22 Je 1:6; 4:10; 14:13; 32:17; Ez 4:14; 9:8; 11:13; 21:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: alas! (15).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 1:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.1.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.1.6/#tree)

וָאֹמַ֗ר אֲהָהּ֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֔ה הִנֵּ֥ה לֹא־יָדַ֖עְתִּי דַּבֵּ֑רכִּי־נַ֖עַר אָנֹֽכִי׃פ

*Word for word:* and I.said alas! Lord my Yahweh here! not I.know to.speak (dm) \[am\].a.youth I

*JPS 1917:* Then said I: 'Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child.'

[Joel 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.15/#tree)

אֲהָ֖הּ לַיּ֑וֹם כִּ֤י קָרוֹב֙ י֣וֹם יְהוָ֔ה וּכְשֹׁ֖ד מִשַׁדַּ֥ייָבֽוֹא׃

*Word for word:* alas! for the day (dm) \[is\].near the.day of.Yahweh and like devastation from.\[the\] Almighty it.will.come

*JPS 1917:* Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/162.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/162/): 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).