3759. ouai

Strong's Lexicon

ouai: Woe, alas

Original Word: οὐαί
Part of Speech: Interjection, Noun, Indeclinable, Other Type
Transliteration: ouai
Pronunciation: oo-ah'-ee
Phonetic Spelling: (oo-ah'-ee)
Definition: Woe, alas
Meaning: woe!, alas!, uttered in grief or denunciation.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
a prim. interj.
Definition
alas! woe! (an expression of grief or denunciation)
NASB Translation
woe (46), woes (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 3759: οὐαί

οὐαί, an interjection of grief or of denunciation; the Sept. chiefly for הוי and אוי; "Alas! Woe!" with a dat of person added, Matthew 11:21; Matthew 18:7; Matthew 23:13-16, 23, 25, 27, 29; Matthew 24:19; Matthew 26:24; Mark 13:17; Mark 14:21; Luke 6:24-26; Luke 10:13; Luke 11:42-44, 46f, 52; Luke 21:23; Luke 22:22; Jude 1:11; Revelation 12:12 R G L, small edition. (see below) (Numbers 21:29; Isaiah 3:9, and often in the Sept.); thrice repeated, and followed by a dative, Revelation 8:13 R G L WH marginal reading (see below); the dative is omitted in Luke 17:1; twice repeated and followed by a nominative in place of a vocative, Revelation 18:10, 16, 19 (Isaiah 1:24; Isaiah 5:8-22; Habakkuk 2:6, 12, etc.); exceptionally, with an accusative of the person, in Revelation 8:13 T Tr WH text, and L T Tr WH; this accusative, I think, must be regarded either as an accusative of exclamation (cf. Matthiae, § 410), or as an imitation of the construction of the accusative after verbs of injuring (Buttmann, § 131, 14 judges otherwise); with the addition of ἀπό and a genitive of the evil the infliction of which is deplored (cf. Buttmann, 322 (277); Winer's Grammar, 371 (348)), Matthew 18:7; also of ἐκ, Revelation 8:13. As a substantive, ἡ οὐαί (the writer seems to have been led to use the feminine by the similarity of ἡ θλῖψις or ἡ ταλαιπωρία; cf. Winers Grammar, 179 (169)) woe, calamity: Revelation 9:12; Revelation 11:14; δύο οὐαί, Revelation 9:12 (οὐαί ἐπί οὐαί ἔσται, Ezekiel 7:26; οὐαί ἡμᾶς λήψεται Evang. Nicod c. 21 (Pars ii., 5:1 (edited by Tdf.))); so also in the phrase οὐαί μοι ἐστιν, woe is unto me, i. e. divine penalty threatens me, 1 Corinthians 9:16, cf. Hosea 9:12; (Jeremiah 6:4); Epictetus diss. 3, 19, 1 (frequent in ecclesiastical writings).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

alas, woe.

A primary exclamation of grief; "woe" -- alas, woe.

Forms and Transliterations

Ουαι ουαί Οὐαί Οὐαὶ ουδαμού Ouai Ouaí Ouaì

Englishman's Concordance

Matthew 11:21 Inj
GRK: Οὐαί σοι Χοραζίν
NAS: Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe
KJV: Woe unto thee, Chorazin!
INT: Woe to you Chorazin

Matthew 11:21 Inj
GRK: σοι Χοραζίν οὐαί σοι Βηθσαϊδά
NAS: to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
KJV: Chorazin! woe unto thee,
INT: to you Chorazin woe to you Bethsaida

Matthew 18:7 Inj
GRK: Οὐαὶ τῷ κόσμῳ
NAS: Woe to the world because
KJV: Woe unto the world because of
INT: Woe to the world

Matthew 18:7 Inj
GRK: σκάνδαλα πλὴν οὐαὶ τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ
NAS: come; but woe to that man
KJV: come; but woe to that man by
INT: trespasses yet woe the man

Matthew 23:13 Inj
GRK: Οὐαὶ δὲ ὑμῖν
NAS: But woe to you, scribes
KJV: But woe unto you, scribes
INT: woe moreover to you

Matthew 23:14 I
GRK: Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν γραμματεῖς
KJV: Woe unto you, scribes
INT: Woe to you scribes

Matthew 23:15 Inj
GRK: Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν γραμματεῖς
NAS: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
KJV: Woe unto you, scribes
INT: Woe to you scribes

Matthew 23:16 Inj
GRK: Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν ὁδηγοὶ
NAS: Woe to you, blind guides,
KJV: Woe unto you, [ye] blind
INT: Woe to you guides

Matthew 23:23 Inj
GRK: Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν γραμματεῖς
NAS: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
KJV: Woe unto you, scribes
INT: Woe to you scribes

Matthew 23:25 Inj
GRK: Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν γραμματεῖς
NAS: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
KJV: Woe unto you, scribes
INT: Woe to you scribes

Matthew 23:27 Inj
GRK: Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν γραμματεῖς
NAS: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
KJV: Woe unto you, scribes
INT: Woe to you scribes

Matthew 23:29 Inj
GRK: Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν γραμματεῖς
NAS: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
KJV: Woe unto you, scribes
INT: Woe to you scribes

Matthew 24:19 Inj
GRK: οὐαὶ δὲ ταῖς
NAS: But woe to those who are pregnant
KJV: And woe unto them that are with
INT: woe moreover to those that

Matthew 26:24 Inj
GRK: περὶ αὐτοῦ οὐαὶ δὲ τῷ
NAS: as it is written of Him; but woe to that man
KJV: him: but woe unto that man
INT: concerning him woe moreover

Mark 13:17 Inj
GRK: οὐαὶ δὲ ταῖς
NAS: But woe to those who are pregnant
KJV: But woe to them that are with
INT: woe moreover to those that

Mark 14:21 Inj
GRK: περὶ αὐτοῦ οὐαὶ δὲ τῷ
NAS: as it is written of Him; but woe to that man
KJV: him: but woe to that man
INT: concerning him woe however to the

Luke 6:24 Inj
GRK: Πλὴν οὐαὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς
NAS: But woe to you who are rich,
KJV: But woe unto you that are rich!
INT: But woe to you who are

Luke 6:25 Inj
GRK: οὐαὶ ὑμῖν οἱ
NAS: Woe to you who are well-fed now,
KJV: Woe unto you that are full!
INT: Woe to you who

Luke 6:25 Inj
GRK: ὅτι πεινάσετε οὐαί οἱ γελῶντες
NAS: for you shall be hungry. Woe [to you] who laugh
KJV: ye shall hunger. Woe unto you
INT: for you will hunger Woe to you who laugh

Luke 6:26 Inj
GRK: οὐαὶ ὅταν καλῶς
NAS: Woe [to you] when all
KJV: Woe unto you, when
INT: Woe to you when well

Luke 10:13 Inj
GRK: Οὐαί σοι Χοραζίν
NAS: Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe
KJV: Woe unto thee, Chorazin!
INT: Woe to you Chorazin

Luke 10:13 Inj
GRK: σοι Χοραζίν οὐαί σοι Βηθσαιδά
NAS: to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
KJV: Chorazin! woe unto thee,
INT: to you Chorazin woe to you Bethsaida

Luke 11:42 Inj
GRK: ἀλλὰ οὐαὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς
NAS: But woe to you Pharisees!
KJV: But woe unto you, Pharisees!
INT: But woe to you

Luke 11:43 Inj
GRK: οὐαὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς
NAS: Woe to you Pharisees! For you love
KJV: Woe unto you, Pharisees!
INT: Woe to you

Luke 11:44 Inj
GRK: οὐαὶ ὑμῖν ὅτι
NAS: Woe to you! For you are like
KJV: Woe unto you, scribes
INT: Woe to you for

Strong's Greek 3759
47 Occurrences

Οὐαί — 47 Occ.