οἴμμοι
alas! woe!
Where this word appears
Every passage where οἴμμοι appears in the Greek Septuagint — 16 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Kings 17:20 οἴμμοι And Eliu cried aloud, and said, Alas, O Lord, the witness of the widow with whom I sojourn, you have wrought evil for her in slaying her son.
- Job 10:15 οἴμμοι Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor.
- Psalms 119:5 οἴμμοι Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar.
- Jeremiah 4:31 οἴμμοι For I have heard your groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, saying, Woe is me! for my soul faints because of the slain.
- Jeremiah 15:10 οἴμμοι Woe is me, my mother! you have born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped others, nor has any one helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.
- Jeremiah 22:18 οἴμμοι Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Joakim son of Josias, king of Juda, even concerning this man; they shall not bewail him, saying, Ah brother! neither shall they at all weep for him, saying, Alas Lord.
- Jeremiah 51:33 οἴμμοι Whereas you have said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;
- Jeremiah 51:33 οἴμμοι Whereas you have said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;
- Ezekiel 9:8 οἴμμοι And it came to pass as they were striking, that I fell upon my face, and cried out, and said, Alas, O Lord! will you destroy the remnant of Israel, in pouring out your wrath upon Jerusalem?
- Ezekiel 11:13 οἴμμοι
- Ezekiel 11:13 οἴμμοι
- Joel 1:15 οἴμμοι Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.
- Joel 1:15 οἴμμοι Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.
- Joel 1:15 οἴμμοι Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.
- Micah 7:1 οἴμμοι Alas for me! for I am become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as one gathering grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul!
- Micah 7:1 οἴμμοι Alas for me! for I am become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as one gathering grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul!
About this word
About this word
οἴμμοι (oímmoi), “alas! woe!,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 16 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →