To grieve
אָדַבStrong’s H0109adav (a-dav)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Adav is the Hebrew word usually translated “cause to grieve”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.”
Meaning
- To grieve, cause grief(Hiph) to cause to grieve, to grieve, to cause grief
How it's translated
- and to cause to grieve 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
אָדַב adav · to grieve
1) to grieve, cause grief 1a) (Hiph) to cause to grieve, to grieve, to cause grief
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grieve” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRIEVE, verb transitive
[Latin gravo, from gravis.]
- To give pain of mind to; to afflict; to wound the feelings.
- To afflict; to inflict pain on.“children of men” Lamentations 3:33
- To make sorrowful; to excite regret in.
- To offend; to displease; to provoke.“GRIEVE not the holy Spirit of God” Ephesians 4:30
All definitions and other forms of “grieve”
GRIEVE, verb intransitive
To feel pain of mind or heart; to be in pain on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn. We grieve at the loss of friends or property. We grieve at the misfortunes of others. We grieve for our own misfortunes, follies and vices, as well as for those of our children. It is followed by at or for.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.