Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν... Woe to you! From laments to threats in Biblical Greek
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Abstract
This paper aims at investigating the uses and pragmatic functions of οὐαί, an interjection which occurs almost only in Biblical Greek. All the Septuaginta and New Testament occurrences will be analysed in order to distinguish between the uses of οὐαί as an interjection – when it expresses lamentations and has no morpho-syntactic link with any element of the sentence – and the other uses of οὐαί – when it is followed by a dative or a nominative of people/other entities that are pitied or threatened. In the Gospels, οὐαί specifically characterises a very impolite context of enunciations, namely Jesus’ verbal attack against Scribes and Pharisees, which starts with a repetitive Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν... Woe to you!.
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