# H188 אוֹי

אוֹי (ʼôwy), Strong’s H188: lamentation; also interjectionally Oh! KJV: alas, woe.. Occurs 24 times.

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*ʼôwy* — lamentation; also interjectionally Oh!

KJV: alas, woe.

Derived from [אָוָה ʼâvâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H183) (to wish f)

Occurs 24 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אוֹי interj. (onomatop.) woe! an impassioned expression of grief and despair

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 21:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=29) — Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into…
- [Numbers 24:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/24?v=23) — He took up his parable, and said, “Alas, who shall live when God does this?
- [1 Samuel 4:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/4?v=7) — The Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp.” They said, “Woe to us! For there has not been…
- [1 Samuel 4:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/4?v=8) — Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with…
- [Isaiah 3:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/3?v=9) — The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul!…
- [Isaiah 3:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/3?v=11) — Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.
- [Isaiah 6:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/6?v=5) — 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…
- [Isaiah 24:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/24?v=16) — From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine…
- [Jeremiah 4:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/4?v=13) — Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe…
- [Jeremiah 4:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/4?v=31) — 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…