Strong's Hebrew · H253
אָח
ʼâch · awkh
ah, alas.
Definition
Oh! (expressive of grief or surprise)
Derivation
a variation for H162 (אֲהָהּ);
Appears 3 times in Scripture
“This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.”
“So that their hearts may melt and many may stumble, I have appointed at all their gates a sword for slaughter. Yes, it is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter.”
“Now suppose that man has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these things,”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).