Hebrew intj · H188
אוֹי
oyo'-ee
woe!
24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼôwy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H188is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H188
lamentation; also interjectionally Oh!
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
oy is rendered "woe!". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 21:29Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
Numbers 21:29אוֹי־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- woe24
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אוֹיָה | oyah | woe! | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 24, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- א֣וֹי6
- א֥וֹי6
- אֽוֹי־5
- א֖וֹי2
- אוֹי־2
- א֕וֹי1
- אוֹי֮1
- א֤וֹי1
The grammar of each form
- interjection24HTj
Numbers
two uses
Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
- אוֹי־ʾo-interjectiontagged: woe
Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?
- א֕וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
1 Samuel
two uses
the Philistines were afraid. “The gods have entered their camp!” they said. “Woe to us, for nothing like this has happened before.
- א֣וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
- א֣וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
Proverbs
one use
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
- א֥וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
Isaiah
four uses
The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.
- א֣וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
- א֖וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
- אֽוֹי־ʾo-interjectiontagged: woe
From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.
- א֣וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
Jeremiah
eight uses
Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
- א֥וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
- אֽוֹי־ʾo-interjectiontagged: woe
‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.
- א֥וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”
- א֥וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
- א֥וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
- אֽוֹי־ʾo-interjectiontagged: woe
You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”
- אֽוֹי־ʾo-interjectiontagged: woe
Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.
- אוֹי־ʾo-interjectiontagged: woe
Lamentations
one use
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
- אֽוֹי־ʾo-interjectiontagged: woe
Ezekiel
four uses
Woe! Woe to you, declares the Lord GOD. And in addition to all your other wickedness,
- א֣וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
- א֣וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come off! Empty it piece by piece; cast no lots for its contents.
- אוֹי֮'Ointerjectiontagged: woe
Yes, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.
- א֖וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
Hosea
two uses
Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.
- א֤וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: woe
Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!
- א֥וֹיʾointerjectiontagged: 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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.