Sorrow
יָגוֹןStrong’s H3015yagon (ya-gon)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yagon is the Hebrew word usually translated “sorrow”, “from sorrow” and “from sorrow their”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.”
Meaning
- Grief, sorrow, anguish
How it's translated
- sorrow 5
- and sorrow 4
- in sorrow 3
- from sorrow 1
- from sorrow their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Jeremiah 4
- Genesis 2
- Isaiah 2
- Esther 1
- Ezekiel 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 44:31It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
- Esther 9:22As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
- Psalms 13:2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
- Psalms 31:10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
- Psalms 107:39Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
- Psalms 116:3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Hebrew dictionary
יָגוֹן yagon · sorrow
grief, sorrow, anguish
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sorrow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SOR'ROW, noun
The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good. or of frustrated hopes of good, or expected loss of happiness; to grieve; to be sad. I rejoice not that ye were made sorry, but the ye sorrowed to repentance. I Cor. 7. Sorrowing most of all for the words which be spoke, that they should see his face no more.
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.