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title: אָח — ah! · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָח (253), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: ah!. BDB 1906: interj. ah! alas!. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָח

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«אָח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ah!** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 253 · **BDB:** אָח³

### Glosses

alas! (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ah! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/253/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

interj. ah! alas! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/253/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** interj. (onomatop.) ah! alas! Ez 6:11; 21:20. iii. אָח Ez 18:10 (textual error). Ez 18:10 אָח is a vox nihili (dittogr. from foll. אחד: v. Comm.): in 21:10 also dub. (𝔊 εὖ), read אַךְ Ew Hi Sm Toy, חַדָּה Co Berthol, אַתְּ Oort Krae.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/253/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 18:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.18.10/)

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וְהוֹלִ֥יד בֵּן־פָּרִ֖יץ שֹׁפֵ֣ךְ דָּ֑ם וְעָ֣שָׂה אָ֔ח מֵאַחַ֖ד מֵאֵֽלֶּה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.father a.son violent \[who\].sheds (of).blood and he.will.do alas! any one of these.\[things\]

*JPS 1917:* If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth to a brother any of these things,

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[Ezekiel 21:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.20/)

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לְמַ֣עַן ׀ לָמ֣וּג לֵ֗ב וְהַרְבֵּה֙ הַמִּכְשֹׁלִ֔ים עַ֚ל כָּל־שַׁ֣עֲרֵיהֶ֔ם נָתַ֖תִּי אִבְחַת־חָ֑רֶב אָ֛ח עֲשׂוּיָ֥ה לְבָרָ֖ק מְעֻטָּ֥ה לְטָֽבַח׃

*Word for word:* so.as to melt a.heart and \[may.be\].many the stumblings at all gates their I.have.set a.slaughter of.a.sword alas! \[it.is\].made for lightning \[it.is\].wrapped for slaughter

*JPS 1917:* I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied; ah! it is made glittering, it is sharpened for slaughter.

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