Lexicon hoy: ah! alas! ha! Original Word: הוֹיPart of Speech: Interjection Transliteration: hoy Phonetic Spelling: (hoh'ee) Short Definition: woe NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. interj. Definitionah! alas! ha! NASB TranslationAh (2), alas (11), ho (2), ho there (1), woe (34). 
 Brown-Driver-Briggs  הוֺי51  interjection (onomatopoetic; compare    =  הוֺ הוֺ Amos 5:16 ᵑ6, =  הֵידָד Jeremiah 51:14 ᵑ6; also Modern Aramaic  ú hú, ú hú (in a lament), So Urmia-Dial. 102. 4) — expressing usually dissatisfaction and pain,  Ah, Alas; Ha (not distinctly  Woe! which is  אוֺי): used in lamentations,  1 Kings 13:30 and they mourned over him (saying)  הוֺי אָחִי Ah, my brother! je  1 Kings 22:18 הוֺי אָחִי וְהוֺי אָחוֺת ֗֗֗ הוֺי אָדוֺן וְהוֺי הֹדֹה, 1Ki 34:5  וְהוֺי אָדוֺן יִסְמְּדוּ לָ֑ךְ (compare  הוֺהֿוֺ Amos 5:16): hence  Isaiah 1:4 הוֺי גּוֺי חֹטֵא Ah! sinful nation  Isaiah 1:24 Ah! I will ease me of my adversaries; especially preparatory to a declaration of judgment,  Isaiah 10:5 הוֺי אַשּׁוּר שֵׁבֶט אַמִּי,  Isaiah 17:12;  Isaiah 28:1, often followed by a participle  Ah! those that . . .,  Isaiah 5:8,11,18;  Isaiah 29:15;  Isaiah 31:1;  Isaiah 45:9,10;  Jeremiah 22:13;  Amos 5:18;  Amos 6:1;  Habakkuk 2:6;  Habakkuk 2:9;  Habakkuk 2:12;  Habakkuk 2:15;  Habakkuk 2:19;  Zechariah 11:17 + (more sympathetic than  אוֺי לְ): followed by  כִּי Jeremiah 30:7,  אֶל Jeremiah 48:1,  עַל Jeremiah 50:27;  Ezekiel 13:3,  לְ Ezekiel 13:18. Sts. hardly more than an exclamation arousing attention  Ha! (though perhaps with a touch of sympathy or pity)  Isaiah 18:1;  Isaiah 55:1;  Zechariah 2:10 (twice in verse);  Zechariah 2:11;  Jeremiah 47:6.  Strong's ah, alas, ho, O, woe  A prolonged form of how (akin to 'owy); oh! -- ah, alas, ho, O, woe.  see HEBREW how  see HEBREW 'owy   |  
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