אוֹיʼôwy

woe!, an impassioned expression of grief and despair (Isaiah 6:5; Isaiah 24:16; Jeremiah 10:19; Jeremiah 15:10; 1 Samuel 4:7)

Pronunciation: o'-ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H188

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 24 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 21:29 What sorrow awaits you, O people of Moab! You are finished, O worshipers of Chemosh! Chemosh has left his sons as refugees, his daughters as captives of Sihon, the Amorite king.
  • Numbers 24:23 Balaam concluded his messages by saying: “Alas, who can survive unless God has willed it?
  • 1 Samuel 4:7 they panicked. “The gods have come into their camp!” they cried. “This is a disaster! We have never had to face anything like this before!
  • 1 Samuel 4:8 Help! Who can save us from these mighty gods of Israel? They are the same gods who destroyed the Egyptians with plagues when Israel was in the wilderness.
  • Proverbs 23:29 Who has anguish? Who has sorrow? Who is always fighting? Who is always complaining? Who has unnecessary bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
  • Isaiah 3:9 The very look on their faces gives them away. They display their sin like the people of Sodom and don’t even try to hide it. They are doomed! They have brought destruction upon themselves.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).