STRONGS G3759:
οὐαί, an interjection of grief or of denunciation; the
Sept. chiefly for
הוי and
אוי; "Alas! Woe!" with a dat of person added,
Matthew 11:21;
Matthew 18:7;
Matthew 23:13-16,
23,
25,
27,
29;
Matthew 24:19;
Matthew 26:24;
Mark 13:17;
Mark 14:21;
Luke 6:24-26;
Luke 10:13;
Luke 11:42-44,
46f,
52;
Luke 21:23;
Luke 22:22;
Jude 1:11;
Revelation 12:12 R G L, small edition. (see below) (
Numbers 21:29;
Isaiah 3:9, and often in the
Sept.); thrice repeated, and followed by a dative,
Revelation 8:13 R G L WH marginal reading (see below); the dative is omitted in
Luke 17:1; twice repeated and followed by a nominative in place of a vocative,
Revelation 18:10,
16,
19 (
Isaiah 1:24;
Isaiah 5:8-22;
Habakkuk 2:6,
12, etc.); exceptionally, with an accusative of the person, in
Revelation 8:13 T Tr WH text, and
Revelation 12:12 L T Tr WH; this accusative, I think, must be regarded either as an accusative of exclamation (cf.
Matthiae, § 410), or as an imitation of the construction of the accusative after verbs of injuring (
Buttmann, § 131, 14 judges otherwise); with the addition of
ἀπό and a genitive of the evil the infliction of which is deplored (cf.
Buttmann, 322 (277);
Winer's Grammar, 371 (348)),
Matthew 18:7; also of
ἐκ,
Revelation 8:13. As a substantive,
ἡ οὐαί (the writer seems to have been led to use the feminine by the similarity of
ἡ θλῖψις or
ἡ ταλαιπωρία; cf.
Winers Grammar, 179 (169))
woe, calamity:
Revelation 9:12;
Revelation 11:14;
δύο οὐαί,
Revelation 9:12 (
οὐαί ἐπί οὐαί ἔσται,
Ezekiel 7:26;
οὐαί ἡμᾶς λήψεται Evang. Nicod c. 21 (Pars ii., 5:1 (edited by
Tdf.))); so also in the phrase
οὐαί μοι ἐστιν,
woe is unto me, i. e. divine penalty threatens me,
1 Corinthians 9:16, cf.
Hosea 9:12; (
Jeremiah 6:4);
Epictetus diss. 3, 19, 1 (frequent in ecclesiastical writings).
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