Grief
πένθοςStrong’s G3997penthos
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Penthos is the Greek word usually translated “mourning” and “misery”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.”
Meaning
Usually translated “mourning” and “misery”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- mourning 3
- misery 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 3
- James 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Revelation 18:7How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
- Revelation 18:8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
- Revelation 21:4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Greek dictionary
πένθος penthos · grief
πένθος, -ους, τό [in LXX chiefly for אֵבֶל ;] mourning: Jas.4:9, Rev.18:7-8 21:4.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grief” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRIEF,noun
[Latin gravis.]
- The pain of mind produced by loss, misfortune, injury or evils of any kind; sorrow; regret.
- The pain of mind occasioned by our own misconduct; sorrow or regret that we have done wrong; pain accompanying repentance.
- Cause of sorrow; that which afflicts.“Who were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah” Genesis 26:35“A foolish son is a grief to his father” Proverbs 17:25
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.