הוֹיhôwy

Ah, Alas, Ha, expressing usually dissatisfaction and pain (Amos 5:16; Jeremiah 51:14; 1 Kings 13:30; 1 Kings 22:18; 1 Kings 34:5)

Pronunciation: hoh'ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1945

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 51 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 13:30 He laid the body in his own grave, crying out in grief, “Oh, my brother!”
  • Isaiah 1:4 Oh, what a sinful nation they are— loaded down with a burden of guilt. They are evil people, corrupt children who have rejected the Lord. They have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.
  • Isaiah 1:24 Therefore, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says, “I will take revenge on my enemies and pay back my foes!
  • Isaiah 5:8 What sorrow for you who buy up house after house and field after field, until everyone is evicted and you live alone in the land.
  • Isaiah 5:11 What sorrow for those who get up early in the morning looking for a drink of alcohol and spend long evenings drinking wine to make themselves flaming drunk.
  • Isaiah 5:18 What sorrow for those who drag their sins behind them with ropes made of lies, who drag wickedness behind them like a cart!
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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).