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title: אֲבוֹי — Oh! · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲבוֹי (17), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Oh!. BDB 1906: interj. Oh. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲבוֹי

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«אֲבוֹי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Oh!** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 17 · **BDB:** אֲבוֹי

### Glosses

woe (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Oh! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/17/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

interj. Oh [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/17/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** interj. exclam. of pain, Oh! Pr 23:29 (‖ אוֹי woe!). Prob. akin to Syriac ܐܘܽܒܺܝܰܐ alas …! PS 53 (AW Ges less prob. as a subst. need from אָבָה, cf. אֶבְיוֹן).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲבוֹי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/17/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 23:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.29/)

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לְמִ֨י א֥וֹי לְמִ֪י אֲב֡וֹי לְמִ֤י מִדְיָנִ֨ים ׀ לְמִ֥י שִׂ֗יחַ לְ֭מִי פְּצָעִ֣ים חִנָּ֑ם לְ֝מִ֗י חַכְלִל֥וּת עֵינָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* \[belongs\].to whom? woe \[belongs\].to whom? woe \[belong\].to whom? contentions \[belongs\].to whom? complaint \[belong\].to whom? bruises without.cause \[belongs\].to whom? dullness of.eyes

*JPS 1917:* Who crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? who hath contentions? who hath raving? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

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