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# הוֹ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1930

**Ah!** — used 2 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

Ah! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1930/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הוֹ: interj. Ah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1930/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** interj. i.q. the more usual הוֹי (q.v.) Ah! Am 5:16 of mourners וּבְכָל־חוּצוֹת יֹאמְרוּ הוֹ־הוֹ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: alas! (2).

## In the verses

[Amos 5:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.16/#tree)

לָ֠כֵן כֹּֽה־אָמַ֨ר יְהוָ֜ה אֱלֹהֵ֤י צְבָאוֹת֙ אֲדֹנָ֔י בְּכָל־רְחֹב֣וֹת מִסְפֵּ֔ד וּבְכָל־חוּצ֖וֹת יֹאמְר֣וּ הוֹ־ה֑וֹ וְקָרְא֤וּ אִכָּר֙ אֶל־אֵ֔בֶל וּמִסְפֵּ֖ד אֶל־י֥וֹדְעֵי נֶֽהִי׃

*Word for word:* therefore thus he.says Yahweh God of.hosts Lord \[the\] \[will be\].in.all \[the\].open.places wailing and in all \[the\].streets people.will.say alas! alas! and people.will.call a.farmer to mourning and wailing to \[those.who\].know (of).mourning.song\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: Lamentation shall be in all the broad places, and they shall say in all the streets: 'Alas! alas!' and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and proclaim lamentation to such as are skilful of wailing.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1930.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1930/): 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).