The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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וָי‏ interj. woe, alas!

woe, alas! Com. 4Q536.X2.11 : וי לכה סכלא די פמך ירמנכה‏ woe are you, fool, whose mouth deceives you. TgO Num24:23 : וָי לְחַיָבַייָא דְיֵיחוֹן כַד יַעֲבֵיד אֲלָהָא יָת אִלֵין‏ woe to the guilty who shall be alive when God destroys these. TgJ 1Sam17:43tos : אבוך צוח ואמך מיללא וי וי‏ your father cries out and your mother wails woe! woe!. TN Num21:29 : ווי/אוי/ לכון מואביי/מואבאי‏ . TgQoh10:16 : ווי ליך ארעא דישראל‏ .

Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 169a; DJBA: 395a; Jastrow: 373; Levy Ch-W: 1:207; Tal Sam: 215; DNWSI: 297; Cook,Qumran: 69;

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Derivatives:

wy, wyˀ (wāy, wāyā) n.m. woe