the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Strong's #17 - אֲבוֹי
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- Oh!, Woe!, (exclamation of pain — indicates desire or uneasiness)
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1033) ib (בי BY) AC: Need CO: Empty AB: Sorrow: The pictograph b , a picture of the house represents what is inside. The i is the hand. When combined these mean "inside the hand". An empty hand desiring to be filled. This root is closely related to aband eb.
A) ib (בי BY) AC: ? CO: ? AB: ?
Nm ) ib (בי BY) - Excuse Me: Used as an introduction for an entreaty or request. KJV (12): O, oh, alas - Strongs: H994 (בִּי)
C) iba (אבי ABY) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Need: A void within oneself that desires to be filled.
cm) ifba (אבוי ABWY) - Sorrow: A pain of desire. KJV (1): sorrow - Strongs: H17 (אֲבוֹי)
jm) nfiba (אביונ ABYWN) - Poor: One who is in need. KJV (61): needy, poor, beggar - Strongs: H34 (אֶבְיוֹן)
jf1) enfiba (אביונה ABYWNH) - Desire: Something looking to be filled. KJV (1): desire - Strongs: H35 (אֲבִיּוֹנָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
alas . . . ! PS53 (AW Ges less probably as a substantive need from אָבָה, compare אֶבְיוֺן). אבח (Dl BD Ez. x; Proverbs 75 compare Assyrian [ abâµu], torment, but dubious)
אֲבוֹי (from the root אָבָה No. 2) poverty, misery, a word: once found, Pro, 23:29, of the form קְמוֹל, no doubt formed for the purpose of paronomastically answering to the words אוֹי and הוֹי; compare Lehrg. 374, note r, and Isaiah 15:4, 17:1 59:13 so Abulwalid, whom I unhesitatingly follow. Kimchi, who is followed by most of the moderns, takes it as the same as אוֹי and הוֹי an interjection of grief. [“O, woe! Comp. Gr. αἰβοῖ, Arist. Pac. 1066.”-Ges. add.]
