Greek inj · G3759
οὐαί
ouaioo-ah'-ee
woe!
46 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ouaí
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3759is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3759
"woe"
The King James renders it: alas, woe.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ouai is rendered "woe!". It stands 46 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Fifteen of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 11:21“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Matthew 11:21Οὐαί
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fifteen of the word's forty-six uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Woe42
- But woe1
- Woe to1
- Woe to you1
- woes1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 46, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- οὐαὶ41
- οὐαί5
The grammar of each form
- interjection46INJ
Matthew
thirteen uses
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
- Οὐαίouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
- οὐαίouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
Mark
two uses
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
Luke
fifteen uses
But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe to
Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers treated the false prophets in the same way.
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe to you
Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
- Οὐαίouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
- οὐαίouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
Woe to you Pharisees! You love the chief seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
“Woe to you as well, experts in the law!” He replied. “You weigh men down with heavy burdens, but you yourselves will not lift a finger to lighten their load.
- οὐαίouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Jesus said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come!
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
- Οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: But woe
Indeed, the Son of Man will go as it has been determined, but woe to that man who betrays Him.”
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
1 Corinthians
one use
Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Jude
one use
Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
Revelation
fourteen uses
And as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the remaining three angels!”
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still to follow.
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woes
The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe is coming shortly.
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.”
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: Woe
- οὐαὶouaiinterjectiontagged: woe
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.