Strong’s H1945 · Hebrew
הוֹי
hôwy
hoh'ee
Definition
oh!
Etymology
a prolonged form of H1930 (הוֹ) (akin to H188 (אוֹי));
Where the KJV renders it
- ah
- alas
- ho
- O
- woe
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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