אַלְלַיʼalᵉlay
alas! woe! (Micah 7:1; Job 10:15)
Pronunciation: al-le-lah'ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H480
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Job 10:15 If I am guilty, too bad for me; and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high, because I am filled with shame and misery.
- Micah 7:1 How miserable I am! I feel like the fruit picker after the harvest who can find nothing to eat. Not a cluster of grapes or a single early fig can be found to satisfy my hunger.
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).