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Joel 1:15
“Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
אֲהָהּʼăhâhh · a-haw'
H162 · Hebrew
H162 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Oh!
- Derivation
- apparently a primitive word expressing pain exclamatorily;
- KJV renderings
- ah, alas.
- Grammar
- אֲהָ֖הּ — particle (interjection)
- Usage
- Occurs 15 times in the Hebrew Bible.Joshua 7:7Judges 6:22Judges 11:352 Kings 3:102 Kings 6:5
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אֲהָהּ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.