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# woe

«woe» in Mova's school dictionary: **Great sadness or trouble** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (woes)

### meaning for a pupil

Great sadness or trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woe/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In tales «woe» is the sorrow that follows bad luck or a sad event.

### examples

- It was a scene of woe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woe/#x1)
- She told him all her woes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woe/#x2)
- Woe came upon the village after the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woe/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Woe unto their soul! for they have wrought evil unto themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.64/)
- [Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for the work of his hands shall be done to him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.66/)
- [Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.108/)
- [Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.111/)
- [Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.112/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «woe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.