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title: אַלְלַי — alas! · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַלְלַי (480), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: alas!. BDB 1906: interj. alas! woe!. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַלְלַי

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«אַלְלַי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **alas!** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 480 · **BDB:** אַלְלַי

### Glosses

woe! (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

alas! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/480/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

interj. alas! woe! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/480/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** interj. (prob. onomatop.: cf. أَلَّ, אָלָה, ܐܶܠܴܐ to wail, አሌ woe! Di 718) alas! woe! sq. לִי to me Mi 7:1 Jb 10:15.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַלְלַי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/480/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 10:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.15/)

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אִם־רָשַׁ֡עְתִּי אַלְלַ֬י לִ֗י וְ֭צָדַקְתִּי לֹא־אֶשָּׂ֣א רֹאשִׁ֑י שְׂבַ֥ע קָ֝ל֗וֹן וּרְאֵ֥ה עָנְיִֽי׃

*Word for word:* if I.am.guilty woe! to me and I.have.been.righteous not I.will.lift.up head my surfeited of.shame and see affliction my

*JPS 1917:* If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head — being filled with ignominy and looking upon mine affliction.

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[Micah 7:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.1/)

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אַ֣לְלַי לִ֗י כִּ֤י הָיִ֙יתִי֙ כְּאָסְפֵּי־קַ֔יִץ כְּעֹלְלֹ֖ת בָּצִ֑יר אֵין־אֶשְׁכּ֣וֹל לֶאֱכ֔וֹל בִּכּוּרָ֖ה אִוְּתָ֥ה נַפְשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* woe! to me (dm) I.have.become like gathering(s) of.summer.fruit like gleanings of.\[the\].grape.harvest there.\[is\].not a.cluster.of.grapes to eat an.early.fig it.craves appetite my

*JPS 1917:* Woe is me! for I am as the last of the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage; there is no cluster to eat; nor first-ripe fig which my soul desireth.

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