Words the Bible translates as grievous
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 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
- kavedכָּבֵדheavy: carrying great weight, and by extension anything large, severe, or hard to bear
- qashehקָשֶׁהhard in the sense of unyielding: a burden that will not let up, a manner that gives no ground, or a person who will not bend
- qashahקָשָׁהto be or become hard: too difficult to manage, harsh or heavy in force, or (of the heart and neck) stubbornly unwilling to yield
- anashאָנַשׁpast healing: so badly hurt or so sick that nothing will mend it.
- etsevעֶצֶבhard, draining work and the hurt that comes with it: the strenuous labor of a fallen world and the pain that labor costs
+1 more meaning
- a fashioned object, a clay pot, used of a person treated as a worthless, broken thing
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