Strong’s H1958 · Hebrew
הִי
hîy
he
Definition
lamentation
Etymology
for H5092 (נְהִי);
Where the KJV renders it
- woe. (For hiyr. See H1931 (הוּא)
- H1932 (הוּא).)
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.
What the first audience heard
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