The Koine Bible

Greek Lexicon

SBL Greek New Testament lexicon

οὐαί

Lexicon Index Written Scriptures

Lemma	οὐαί
Citation form	οὐαί
Part of speech	particle
Gloss	woe!, alas!
Strong’s	G3759
Transliteration	ouaí
Definition	"woe"
KJV glosses	:--alas, woe.
Derivation	a primary exclamation of grief
SBLGNT occurrences	35

Forms and grammatical context

Each form is parsed from its actual MorphGNT occurrence; a form may have more than one analysis depending on context.

Greek form	Grammar and occurrences
Οὐαί	particle (MorphGNT --------) — Matthew 11:21 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 10:13
οὐαί	interjection (MorphGNT --------) — Matthew 11:21 interjection (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 10:13 interjection (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 11:46 interjection (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 6:25 interjection (MorphGNT --------) — Revelation 18:10 interjection (MorphGNT --------) — Revelation 18:16 interjection (MorphGNT --------) — Revelation 18:19
οὐαὶ	particle (MorphGNT --------) — Matthew 18:7 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Matthew 24:19 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Matthew 26:24 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Mark 13:17 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Mark 14:21 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 11:42 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 11:43 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 11:44 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 11:47 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 11:52 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 17:1 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 21:23 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 22:22 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 6:24 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 6:25 particle (MorphGNT --------) — 1 Corinthians 9:16 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Jude 1:11 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Revelation 11:14 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Revelation 12:12 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Revelation 8:13 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Revelation 9:12
Οὐαὶ	particle (MorphGNT --------) — Matthew 23:13 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Matthew 23:15 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Matthew 23:16 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Matthew 23:23 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Matthew 23:25 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Matthew 23:27 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Matthew 23:29 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Luke 6:26 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Revelation 18:10 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Revelation 18:16 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Revelation 18:19 particle (MorphGNT --------) — Revelation 8:13

Morphology

interjection
particle

Septuagint occurrences

The same normalized Greek lemma occurs in the Rahlfs Septuagint: ουαι.