אִי

i · woe!

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H337 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

i (אִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “woe!”.

A cry of lament.

How to say it

i

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 that mourns someone's misfortune.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • Woe ×1
  • him ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Ecclesiastes 4:10

    For if they fall, the one will lift up his companion; but woe to him, the one who falls and there is no second to lift him up!

  • Ecclesiastes 10:16

    Woe to you, land, when your king is a boy, and your princes eat in the morning!