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Pain!

אֲבוֹיStrong’s H0017

avoy (a-voy)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Avoy is the Hebrew word usually translated “woe”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?”
Proverbs 23:29 KJV
Meaning
  1. Oh!, Woe!, (exclamation of pain - indicates desire or uneasiness)
How it's translated
  • woe 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Proverbs 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    אֲבוֹי avoy · pain!

    Oh!, Woe!, (exclamation of pain - indicates desire or uneasiness)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “pain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    PAIN, noun

    [Latin paena; Gr. penalty, and pain labor.]

    1. An uneasy sensation in animal bodies, of any degree from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from pressure, tension or spasm, separation of parts by violence, or any derangement of functions.
    2. Labor; work; toil; laborious effort.
    3. Labor; toilsome effort; task; in the singular. [Not now used.]
    4. Uneasiness of mind; disquietude; anxiety; solicitude for the future; grief, sorrow for the past.
    All definitions and other forms of “pain”
    1. The throws or distress of travail or childbirth.“She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her” 1 Samuel 4:19
    2. Penalty; punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for a crime, or annexed to the commission of a crime.

    PAIN, verb transitive

    1. To make uneasy or to disquiet; to cause uneasy sensations in the body, of any degree of intensity; to make simply uneasy, or to distress, to torment.
    2. To afflict; to render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress.“I am pained at my very heart” Jeremiah 4:19
    3. Reciprocally, to pain one's self, to labor; to make toilsome efforts. [Little used.]

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.