Words the Bible translates as pain
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 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
- makhovמַכְאוֹבpain or suffering, whether felt in the body or in the heart
- tsirצִירa writhing pang: the seizing, doubling-over pain of labor, or that same pain brought on by dread
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- an envoy: a person formally dispatched with a message on someone else's authority, most often between rulers or nations
- a hinge: the pivot a door swings on
- ka'avכָּאַבto hurt: to be in pain, in body or in heart, or to cause that pain in someone else
- ḥilחִילwrithing pain: the doubling-over agony of childbirth, used above all for the terror that grips people when God's judgment closes in
- etsevעֶצֶבhard, draining work and the hurt that comes with it: the strenuous labor of a fallen world and the pain that labor costs
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- a fashioned object, a clay pot, used of a person treated as a worthless, broken thing
- ke'evכְּאֵבpain: the felt suffering of a person, in the body or in the heart, which Hebrew names as one thing
- otsevעֹצֶבpainnot studied yet
- avoyאֲבוֹיpain!not studied yet
- atsavעֲצַבto painnot studied yet
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