Woe!
אוֹיStrong’s H0188oy
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Oy is the Hebrew word usually translated “woe”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.”
Meaning
- Woe! alas! oh!passionate cry of grief or despair
How it's translated
- woe 24
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 8
- Isaiah 4
- Ezekiel 3
- Numbers 2
- 1 Samuel 2
- Hosea 2
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 24:23And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
- 1 Samuel 4:7And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.
- 1 Samuel 4:8Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
- Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
- Isaiah 3:9The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
- Isaiah 3:11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Hebrew dictionary
אוֹי oy · woe!
1) woe! alas! oh! 1a) passionate cry of grief or despair
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.