WOE.

WOE. Num 21:29. This term often denotes a feeling of compassion or sympathy, Matt 24:19, or a simple lamentation as, "Alas for me!" Ps 120:5. In other connections it is equivalent to the threatening of punishment. Hab 2:6, Gal 1:9, 2 Sam 20:15, Acts 1:19; Zech 11:17.

WOE. Num 21:29. This term often denotes a feeling of compassion or sympathy, Matt 24:19, or a simple lamentation as, "Alas for me!" Ps 120:5. In other connections it is equivalent to the threatening of punishment. Hab 2:6, Gal 1:9, 2 Sam 20:15, Acts 1:19; Zech 11:17.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity. Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took. Milton. [They] weep each other's woe. Pope.

2. A curse; a malediction. Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice South.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Woeful; sorrowful. [Obs.] His clerk was woe to do that deed. Robert of Brunne. Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed. Chaucer. And looking up he waxed wondrous woe. Spenser.