{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H188",
  "lemma": "אוֹי",
  "transliteration": "ʼôwy",
  "definition": "lamentation; also interjectionally Oh!",
  "kjv": "alas, woe.",
  "occurrences": 24,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H183",
      "lemma": "אָוָה",
      "transliteration": "ʼâvâh",
      "meaning": "to wish f",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H183"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "אוֹי interj. (onomatop.) woe! an impassioned expression of grief and despair"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 21:29",
      "text": "Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 24:23",
      "text": "He took up his parable, and said, “Alas, who shall live when God does this?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/24?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 4:7",
      "text": "The Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp.” They said, “Woe to us! For there has not been…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/4?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 4:8",
      "text": "Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/4?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 3:9",
      "text": "The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul!…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/3?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 3:11",
      "text": "Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/3?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 6:5",
      "text": "Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/6?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 24:16",
      "text": "From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/24?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 4:13",
      "text": "Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/4?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 4:31",
      "text": "For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/4?v=31"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H188",
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  "credits": "https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html"
}