οὐαί
ouai
“woe!”
Definition
"woe"
a primary exclamation of grief;
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
INJ
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Occurrences
οὐαί appears 36 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
Woe to you when all men speak well of you,for their fathers treated the false prophets in the same way.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.