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# הָהּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1929

**alas!** — 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

alas! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1929/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הָהּ: interj. alas! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1929/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** interj. expressing woe, alas! Ez 30:2 howl ye הָהּ לַיּוֹם alas for the day! AV Woe worth the day! (cf. אֲהָהּ לַיּוֹם Joel 1:15.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 30:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.2/#tree)

בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם הִנָּבֵא֙ וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה הֵילִ֖ילוּ הָ֥הּ לַיּֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* O.son of.humankind prophesy and you.will.say thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh wail alas! for the day

*JPS 1917:* 'Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Wail ye: Woe worth the day!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1929.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1929/): 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).