Pain
כְּאֵבStrong’s H3511keev (ke-ev)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Keev is the Hebrew word usually translated “pain my”, “pain” and “from pain of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.”
Meaning
- Pain (mental and physical), sorrow
How it's translated
- pain my 2
- the pain 1
- and pain my 1
- and pain 1
- from pain of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Isaiah 2
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 16:6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
- Psalms 39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
- Isaiah 17:11In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
- Isaiah 65:14Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
- Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
Hebrew dictionary
כְּאֵב keev · pain
pain (mental and physical), sorrow
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.