King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H17
Transliteration: aboy
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-o'ee)
Part of Speech: Interjection
Short Definition: Oh!
Meaning: want
Word Summary
aboy: Oh!
Original Word: אֲבוֹיTransliteration: aboy
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-o'ee)
Part of Speech: Interjection
Short Definition: Oh!
Meaning: want
Strong's Concordance
sorrow From 'abah (in the sense of desiring); want -- sorrow.
see HEBREW 'abah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H17. aboy
אֲבוֺי interjection exclamation of pain, Oh! Proverbs 23:29 ("" אוֺי woe!). Probably akin to Syriac alas . . . ! PS53 (AW Ges less probably as a substantive need from אָבָה, compare אֶבְיוֺן).
אבח (DlBD Ez. x; Prov 75 compare Assyrian [abâµu], torment, but dubious)