To pain
כָּאַבStrong’s H3510kaav (ka-av)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kaav is the Hebrew word usually translated “it is in pain”, “pain” and “spoil”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.”
Meaning
- To be in pain, be sore, have pain, be sorrowful(Qal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- it is in pain 2
- in pain 1
- you will spoil 1
- he causes pain 1
- and in pain 1
- i caused pain him 1
- causes pain 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Genesis 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 3:19And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
- Job 5:18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
- Job 14:22But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
- Psalms 69:29But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
- Proverbs 14:13Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
- Ezekiel 13:22Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
Hebrew dictionary
כָּאַב kaav · to pain
1) to be in pain, be sore, have pain, be sorrowful 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be in pain (physical) 1a2) to be in pain (mental) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause pain, hurt, mar 1b2) pain, mar (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PAIN, noun
[Latin paena; Gr. penalty, and pain labor.]
- An uneasy sensation in animal bodies, of any degree from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from pressure, tension or spasm, separation of parts by violence, or any derangement of functions.
- Labor; work; toil; laborious effort.
- Labor; toilsome effort; task; in the singular. [Not now used.]
- Uneasiness of mind; disquietude; anxiety; solicitude for the future; grief, sorrow for the past.
All definitions and other forms of “pain”
- The throws or distress of travail or childbirth.“She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her” 1 Samuel 4:19
- Penalty; punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for a crime, or annexed to the commission of a crime.
PAIN, verb transitive
- To make uneasy or to disquiet; to cause uneasy sensations in the body, of any degree of intensity; to make simply uneasy, or to distress, to torment.
- To afflict; to render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress.“I am pained at my very heart” Jeremiah 4:19
- Reciprocally, to pain one's self, to labor; to make toilsome efforts. [Little used.]
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.