Words the Bible translates as sorrow
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- avenאָוֶןevil that comes to nothing: the emptiness, harm, and wickedness of a life set against God
- lupēλύπηinward pain: the ache of grief, sorrow, or distress felt in the heart, at times reaching into bodily hardship
- amalעָמָלwearing toil: hard work that drains a person, the misery that comes with it, and what such work finally yields
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- mischief: harm that one person deliberately schemes and works against another
- 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
- 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
- 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
- de'agahדְּאָגָהanxiety: the unsettled weight a person or a people carries about trouble that has not arrived yet
- ke'evכְּאֵבpain: the felt suffering of a person, in the body or in the heart, which Hebrew names as one thing
- itstsavonעִצָּבוֹןpainful toil: the strenuous, grinding labor that wears down the body and weighs on the heart, the kind of effort that the curse made the human lot
- de'avonדְּאָבוֹןsorrownot studied yet
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