Alas!
אֲהָהּStrong’s H0162ahah (a-hah)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ahah is the Hebrew word usually translated “alas”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!”
Meaning
- Alas!, oh!, ah!
How it's translated
- alas 15
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 4
- Ezekiel 4
- 2 Kings 3
- Judges 2
- Joshua 1
- Joel 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 6:22And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O LORD God! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.
- Judges 11:35And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.
- 2 Kings 3:10And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
- 2 Kings 6:5But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
- 2 Kings 6:15And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
- Jeremiah 1:6Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲהָהּ ahah · alas!
alas!, oh!, ah!
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.