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Strong's G3759 · Greek

οὐαί

ouai · oo-ah'-ee

a primary exclamation of grief; "woe"


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

οὐαί (G3759)

46 † οὐαί , interj. of grief or denunciation, [in LXX for הוֹי , אוֹי etc.;] alas! woe! most freq. c. dat. pers.. Mt 11:21 23:14 , Mk 13:17 14:21 , Lk 6:24-26 , Ju 11 , al.; c. vocat. (nom.), Re 18:10 , 16 , 19 (cf. Is 1:24 , al.); c. acc., Re 12:12 , seq. ἐκ , 8:13 ; c. dat. seq. ἀπό (v. M, Pr. , 246), Mt 18:7 . As subst., I Co 9:16 (cf. Je 6:4 ); ἡ οὐ. , Re 9:12 11:14 ; pl., Re 9:12 ; οὐ. , οὐ. , οὐ. , Re 8:13 .

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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