Words the Bible translates as grief
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- lupēλύπηinward pain: the ache of grief, sorrow, or distress felt in the heart, at times reaching into bodily hardship
- penthosπένθοςgriefnot studied yet
- ka'asכַּעַסinner distress: the grief, sorrow, or frustration of a spirit worn down by trouble
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- anger and its provocation: hot displeasure in a person or in God, and the offense that kindles God's anger
- ḥoliחֳלִיa sickness: an illness or disease of the body, and by extension the suffering or ruin that sickness pictures.
- makhovמַכְאוֹבpain or suffering, whether felt in the body or in the heart
- yagonיָגוֹןsorrow: the deep, inward grief of the heart, the lasting kind that quietly wears a person down
- ke'evכְּאֵבpain: the felt suffering of a person, in the body or in the heart, which Hebrew names as one thing
- tugahתּוּגָהgriefnot studied yet
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