אַלְלַי

allay · woe, alas

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H480 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

allay (אַלְלַי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “woe, alas”.

Alas: a cry of grief, "woe is me."

How to say it

al·lay

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 at the misfortune one suffers: "woe is me!"

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Job 10:15

    If I am wicked, woe to me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift my head, sated with dishonor and seeing my affliction.

  • Micah 7:1

    Woe is me! For I have become like the gatherings of summer fruit, like the gleanings of the grape harvest; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that my soul desired.