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# אַלְלַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H480

**alas!** — 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

alas! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/480/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַלְלַי: interj. alas! woe! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/480/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** interj. (prob. onomatop.: cf. أَلَّ, אָלָה, ܐܶܠܴܐ to wail, አሌ woe! Di 718) alas! woe! sq. לִי to me Mi 7:1 Jb 10:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 10:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.15/#tree)

אִם־רָשַׁ֡עְתִּי אַלְלַ֬י לִ֗י וְ֭צָדַקְתִּי לֹא־אֶשָּׂ֣א רֹאשִׁ֑י שְׂבַ֥ע קָ֝ל֗וֹן וּרְאֵ֥ה עָנְיִֽי׃

*Word for word:* if I.am.guilty woe! to me and I.have.been.righteous not I.will.lift.up head my surfeited of.shame and see affliction my

*JPS 1917:* If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head — being filled with ignominy and looking upon mine affliction.

[Micah 7:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.1/#tree)

אַ֣לְלַי לִ֗י כִּ֤י הָיִ֙יתִי֙ כְּאָסְפֵּי־קַ֔יִץ כְּעֹלְלֹ֖ת בָּצִ֑יר אֵין־אֶשְׁכּ֣וֹל לֶאֱכ֔וֹל בִּכּוּרָ֖ה אִוְּתָ֥ה נַפְשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* woe! to me (dm) I.have.become like gathering(s) of.summer.fruit like gleanings of.\[the\].grape.harvest there.\[is\].not a.cluster.of.grapes to eat an.early.fig it.craves appetite my

*JPS 1917:* Woe is me! for I am as the last of the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage; there is no cluster to eat; nor first-ripe fig which my soul desireth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/480.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/480/): 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).