אוֹי oy

Hebrew word for “woe!” · Strong’s H188 · used 24 times in 23 verses

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Meaning

1) woe! alas! oh!; 1a) passionate cry of grief or despair

How it is translated

Glosses given for oy in context, with how often each is used:

• woe! 23
• woe 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Samuel 4 (2), Isaiah 3 (2), Jeremiah 4 (2), Ezekiel 24 (2), Numbers 21 (1), Numbers 24 (1), Proverbs 23 (1), Isaiah 6 (1), Isaiah 24 (1), Jeremiah 6 (1)

Forms

• אוי 24

Words used with it

Words that share verses with oy more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נִי ni “me” 7
• נוּ nu “us” 5
• כְּמוֹשׁ kemosh “Chemosh” 2
• יְהֹוִה yehovih “YHWH/God” 3
• מִי mi “who?” 3
• מַכָּה makkah “wound” 2
• נָא na “please” 3
• אֲדֹנָי adonai “Lord” 3
• חָלָה chalah “be weak” 2
• בַּת bat “daughter” 3
• קָלַל qalal “to lighten” 2
• גָּדַל gadal “to magnify” 2

Key verses

The verses using oy that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Isaiah 3:9 — The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded…
• Isaiah 3:11 — Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
• Isaiah 6:5 — Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the…
• Isaiah 24:16 — From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous…
• Jeremiah 4:13 — Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
• Jeremiah 4:31 — For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that…
• Jeremiah 13:27 — I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem!…
• Jeremiah 15:10 — Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me…
• Lamentations 5:16 — The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
• Ezekiel 24:6 — Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece;…
• Hosea 7:13 — Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken…
• Hosea 9:12 — Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.