οὐαί

οὐαί — ouaí

οὐαί, an interjection of grief or of denunciation; the Sept. chiefly for הוי and אוי; "Alas! Woe!" with a dat of person added, Mat 11:21; Mat 18:7; Mat 23:13-16; Mat 23:23; Mat 23:25; Mat 23:27; Mat 23:29; Mat 24:19; Mat 26:24; Mar 13:17; Mar 14:21; Luk 6:24-26; Luk 10:13; Luke 11:42-44, 46f, 52; Luk 21:23; Luk 22:22; Jud 1:11; Rev 12:12 R G L, small edition. (see below) (Num 21:29; Isa 3:9, and often in the Sept.); thrice repeated, and followed by a dative, Rev 8:13 R G L WH marginal reading (see below); the dative is omitted in Luk 17:1; twice repeated and followed by a nominative in place of a vocative, Rev 18:10; Rev 18:16; Rev 18:19 (Isa 1:24; Isa 5:8-22; Hab 2:6; Hab 2:12, etc.); exceptionally, with an accusative of the person, in Rev 8:13 T Tr WH text, and L T Tr WH; this accusative, I think, must be regarded either as an accusative of exclamation (cf. Matthiae, § 410), or as an imitation of the construction of the accusative after verbs of injuring (Buttmann, § 131, 14 judges otherwise); with the addition of ἀπό and a genitive of the evil the infliction of which is deplored (cf. Buttmann, 322 (277); Winer's Grammar, 371 (348)), Mat 18:7; also of ἐκ, Rev 8:13. As a substantive, ἡ οὐαί (the writer seems to have been led to use the feminine by the similarity of ἡ θλῖψις or ἡ ταλαιπωρία; cf. Winers Grammar, 179 (169)) woe, calamity: Rev 9:12; Rev 11:14; δύο οὐαί, Rev 9:12 (οὐαί ἐπί οὐαί ἔσται, Eze 7:26; οὐαί ἡμᾶς λήψεται Evang. Nicod c. 21 (Pars ii., 5:1 (edited by Tdf.))); so also in the phrase οὐαί μοι ἐστιν, woe is unto me, i. e. divine penalty threatens me, 1Co 9:16, cf. Hos 9:12; (Jer 6:4); Epictetus diss. 3, 19, 1 (frequent in ecclesiastical writings).