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# הוֹי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1945

**Ah** — used 51 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/1492/1945/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הוֹי: interj. Ah, Alas, Ha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1945/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** interj. (onomatop.; cf. ܗܳܘܳܝ = הוֹ הוֹ Am 5:16 𝔖, = הֵידָד Je 51:14 𝔖; also Mod. Aramaic ú hú, ú hú (in a lament), SoUrmia-Dial. 102.4)—expressing usually dissatisfaction and pain, Ah, Alas, Ha (not distinctly Woe! which is אוֹי): used in lamentations, 1 K 13:30 and they mourned over him (saying) הוֹי אָחִי Ah, my brother! Je 22:18 הוֹי אָחִי וְהוֹי אָחוֹת … הוֹי אָדוֹן וְהוֹי הֹדֹה, 34:5 וְהוֹי אָדוֹן יִסְפְּדוּ לָ֑ךְ (cf. הוֹ־הוֹ Am 5:16): hence Is 1:4 הוֹי גּוֹי חֹטֵא Ah! sinful nation, v 24 Ah! I will ease me of my adversaries; especially preparatory to a declaration of judgment, Is 10:5 הוֹי אַשּׁוּר שֵׁבֶט אַפִּי, 17:12; 28:1, often sq. a ptcp. Ah! those that …, 5:8, 11, 18; 29:15; 31:1; 45:9, 10 Je 22:13 Am 5:18; 6:1 Hb 2:6, 9, 12, 15, 19; Zc 11:17 + (more sympathetic than אוֹי לְ): sq. כִּי Je 30:7, אֶל 48:1, עַל 50:27; Ez 13:3, לְ 13:18. Sometimes hardly more than an exclam. arousing attention Ha! (though perh. with a touch of sympathy or pity) Is 18:1; 55:1 Zc 2:10(×2), 11 Je 47:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 34 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: woe to! (34); alas! (11); woe! (6).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 2:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.2.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.2.11/#tree)

ה֥וֹי צִיּ֖וֹן הִמָּלְטִ֑י יוֹשֶׁ֖בֶת בַּת־בָּבֶֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* alas! O.Zion escape O.inhabitant\[s\] of.the.daughter of.Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Ho, Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.'

[Zephaniah 3:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.3.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.3.1/#tree)

ה֥וֹי מֹרְאָ֖ה וְנִגְאָלָ֑ה הָעִ֖יר הַיּוֹנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* woe.to! \[the.one.who.is\].rebellious and \[the.one.who.is\].defiled the city \[which\] oppresses

*JPS 1917:* Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1945.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1945/): 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).