Definition

Oh! (expressive of grief or surprise)

Etymology

a variation for H162 (אֲהָהּ);

Word family

• אֲהָהּ ʼăhâhh

How the KJV renders it

• ah
• alas

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.