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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