Ah!
אָחStrong’s H0253ach
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ach is the Hebrew word usually translated “alas”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.”
Meaning
- Ah!, alas!, woe!
How it's translated
- alas 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 18:10If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,
- Ezekiel 21:15I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
Hebrew dictionary
אָח ach · ah!
ah!, alas!, woe!
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.