yagah (to suffer)

Meaning

To afflict, grieve, suffer, cause grief(Niphal) grieved, grieving (participle) · (Piel) to grieve · (Hiphil) to cause grief, cause sorrow

How it's translated

he has caused grief 2
will you torment 1
torment you 1
grieving 1
he has caused grief to her 1
and he has grieved 1
grieved 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Lamentations 5
Job 1
Isaiah 1
Zephaniah 1

4 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Isaiah 51:23But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Lamentations 1:5Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Lamentations 3:32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Lamentations 3:33For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

All 8 verses, by book

Job 1: 19:2
Isaiah 1: 51:23
Lamentations 5: 1:4 1:5 1:12 3:32 3:33
Zephaniah 1: 3:18

Hebrew dictionary

יָגָה yagah · to suffer

1) to afflict, grieve, suffer, cause grief 1a) (Niphal) grieved, grieving (participle) 1b) (Piel) to grieve 1c) (Hiphil) to cause grief, cause sorrow

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “suffer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SUF'FER, verb transitive

[Latin suffero; sub, under, and fero, to bear; as we say, to undergo.]

To feel or bear what is painful, disagreeable or distressing, either to the body or mind; to undergo.
To endure; to support; to sustain; not to sink under.
To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder.
To undergo; to be affected by.

All definitions and other forms of “suffer”

To sustain; to be affected by; as, to suffer loss or damage.

SUF'FER, verb intransitive

To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient. We suffer with pain, sickness or sorrow. We suffer with anxiety. We suffer by evils past and by anticipating others to come. We suffer from fear and from disappointed hopes.

To undergo, as punishment.
To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.