Lexical Definition

‎אוֹי‎ ʼôwy (o'-ee) woe! ^H:Intj
probably from ‎אָוָה‎ (in the sense of crying out after)

alas, woe.

• lamentation
• also interjectionally Oh!

1) woe! alas! oh!
1a) passionate cry of grief or despair

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אוֺי‎ interjection (onomatopoetic; compare , ) woe! an impassioned expression of grief and despair: usually with dative ‎אוֺי לִי‎ Isa 6:5 woe to me! for I am undone, so Isa 24:16; Jer 10:19; Jer 15:10 ‎אוֺי לָנוּ‎ woe to us! 1Sam 4:7; 1Sam 4:8; Jer 4:13; Jer 6:4 ‎אוֺינָֿא לִי‎ Jer 4:31; Jer 45:3 ‎אוֺינָֿא לָנוּ‎ Lam 5:16. With the 2nd or 3rd person often implying a denunciation; ‎אוֺילְֿךָ‎ ‎מוֺאָב‎ Num 21:29 (= Jer 48:46) Jer 13:27; Ezek 16:23 repeated ‎אוֺי אוֺי לָח‎; Isa 3:9 ‎אוֺי לְנַפְשָׁם‎ vIsa 3:11; Hos 7:13; Hos 9:12 (|| ‎שֹׁד לָהֶם‎). With a voc. (or implicit accusative) Ezek 24:6; Ezek 24:9 ‎אוֺי עִיר הַדָּמִים‎; absolute Num 24:23. Used as a substantive Prov 23:29 ‎לְמִי אוֺי‎ (|| ‎לְמִי אֲבוֺי‎).

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