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# אָח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H253

**ah!** — used 3 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! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/253/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָח³: interj. ah! alas! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/253/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** interj. (onomatop.) ah! alas! Ez 6:11; 21:20. iii. אָח Ez 18:10 (textual error). Ez 18:10 אָח is a vox nihili (dittogr. from foll. אחד: v. Comm.): in 21:10 also dub. (𝔊 εὖ), read אַךְ Ew Hi Sm Toy, חַדָּה Co Berthol, אַתְּ Oort Krae.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: alas! (3).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 18:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.18.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.18.10/#tree)

וְהוֹלִ֥יד בֵּן־פָּרִ֖יץ שֹׁפֵ֣ךְ דָּ֑ם וְעָ֣שָׂה אָ֔ח מֵאַחַ֖ד מֵאֵֽלֶּה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.father a.son violent \[who\].sheds (of).blood and he.will.do alas! any one of these.\[things\]

*JPS 1917:* If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth to a brother any of these things,

[Ezekiel 21:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.20/#tree)

לְמַ֣עַן ׀ לָמ֣וּג לֵ֗ב וְהַרְבֵּה֙ הַמִּכְשֹׁלִ֔ים עַ֚ל כָּל־שַׁ֣עֲרֵיהֶ֔ם נָתַ֖תִּי אִבְחַת־חָ֑רֶב אָ֛ח עֲשׂוּיָ֥ה לְבָרָ֖ק מְעֻטָּ֥ה לְטָֽבַח׃

*Word for word:* so.as to melt a.heart and \[may.be\].many the stumblings at all gates their I.have.set a.slaughter of.a.sword alas! \[it.is\].made for lightning \[it.is\].wrapped for slaughter

*JPS 1917:* I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied; ah! it is made glittering, it is sharpened for slaughter.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/253.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/253/): 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).