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# אַחֲלַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H305

**ah that!** — used 2 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

ah that! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/305/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַחֲלַי: ah that! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/305/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** ψ 119:5 and אַחֲלֵי 2 K 5:3 (perhaps from אָח iii. and לַי = Aramaic לְוַי = לוּ: the varying punctuation is due doubtless to the word being treated by the punctuators as a subst. = wish, with suff. & in c. st., ‘my wish is that,’ etc.; cf. Ki on ψ 119 תְּחִנּוֹתַי וּבַקָּשׁוֹתַי), ah that! (𝔊 ὄφελον).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: would that! (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.5/#tree)

אַ֭חֲלַי יִכֹּ֥נוּ דְרָכָ֗י לִשְׁמֹ֥ר חֻקֶּֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* would.that! they.will.be.steadfast ways my to keep decrees your

*JPS 1917:* Oh that my ways were directed to observe Thy statutes!

[2 Kings 5:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.5.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.5.3/#tree)

וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־גְּבִרְתָּ֔הּ אַחֲלֵ֣י אֲדֹנִ֔י לִפְנֵ֥י הַנָּבִ֖יא אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּשֹׁמְר֑וֹן אָ֛ז יֶאֱסֹ֥ף אֹת֖וֹ מִצָּרַעְתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and she.said to mistress her would.that! master my \[was\] before the prophet who \[is\].in Samaria then he.will.deliver him from his.skin disease

*JPS 1917:* And she said unto her mistress: 'Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/305.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/305/): 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).