ahah · alas

What it means

ahah (אֲהָהּ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “alas”.

!: a cry of pain or distress.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A cry of pain or alarm.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Ah ×9
• Alas ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Joshua×1
• Judges×2
• 2 Kings×3
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×4
• Joel×1

• Joshua 7:7

  And Joshua said, “Alas, Adonai YHWH! Why did you bring this people all the way across the Jordan to give us into the hand of the Amorite, to make us perish? If only we had been content to stay beyond the Jordan!

• Judges 6:22

  Gideon saw that he was the angel of YHWH, and Gideon said, “Alas, Adonai YHWH! For because of this I have seen the angel of YHWH face to face.”

• Judges 11:35

  When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who bring me ruin. I have opened my mouth to YHWH, and I cannot turn back.”

• 2 Kings 3:10

  The king of Israel said, “Alas! For YHWH has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”

• 2 Kings 6:5

  And it happened, as one was felling a beam, that the iron fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas, my lord! And it was borrowed!”

• 2 Kings 6:15

  The attendant of the man of Elohim rose early to get up and went out, and there was a force surrounding the city, with horses and chariots. His young man said to him, “Alas, my lord! What shall we do?”

• Jeremiah 1:6

  And I said, “Ah, Adonai YHWH! Look, I do not know how to speak, for I am a boy.”

• Jeremiah 4:10

  And I said, “Ah, Adonai YHWH! Surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace,’ and the sword has reached to the soul.”

• Jeremiah 14:13

  And I said: “Ah, Adonai YHWH! Look, the prophets are saying to them: ‘You will not see sword, and famine there will not be for you, but true peace I will give you in this place.’”

• Jeremiah 32:17

  ‘Ah, Adonai YHWH! Look, you made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; nothing is too difficult for you.

• Ezekiel 4:14

  And I said, “Ah, Adonai YHWH! Look, my soul has not been defiled; a carcass or what was torn by beasts I have not eaten from my youth until now, and no repulsive meat has come into my mouth.”

• Ezekiel 9:8

  And it came about, while they were striking and I was left alone, that I fell on my face and cried out and said, “Ah, Adonai YHWH! Are you destroying all the remnant of Israel in pouring out your fury on Jerusalem?”

• Ezekiel 11:13

  And it came about, as I prophesied, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died; and I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, “Ah, Adonai YHWH! Are you bringing about complete destruction of the remnant of Israel?”

• Ezekiel 20:49

  And I said, “Ah, Adonai YHWH! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of proverbs?’”

• Joel 1:15

  Ah, the day! For near is the day of YHWH, and like destruction from Shaddai it will come.