Word Study · Strong's H337 · Hebrew
אִי
i
ee
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼîy
“alas!”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
alas!
Rendered in the KJV as
woe.
- 2occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- אִֽי־1
- וְאִ֣יל֗וֹ1
How it is rendered · 2
- and woe! to the him1
- woe!1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- conjunction (“and”) + question particle + preposition with the article + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1
- question particle1
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- HC/Ti/Rd/Sp3ms · 1
- HTi · 1
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The ledger of occurrences
Ecclesiastes2 occurrences
- Ecclesiastes 4:10וְאִ֣יל֗וֹveiloconjunction (“and”) + question particle + preposition with the article + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singularFor if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!here: and woe! to the him
- Ecclesiastes 10:16אִֽי־ʾi-question particleWoe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.here: woe!
Same headword in Strong's