כְּאֵבkᵉʼêb/keh-abe'/
HebrewH35116 occurrences (KJV)
suffering (physical or mental), adversity
KJV renders it: grief, pain, sorrow.
Where it appears
- Job 2:13So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Job 16:6“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
- Ps 39:2I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
- Isa 17:11In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
- Isa 65:14Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.
- Jer 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.