Pain
מַכְאוֹבStrong’s H4341makhov (makh-ov)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Makhov is the Hebrew word usually translated “pains”, “pain” and “pain my”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;”
Meaning
- Pain, sorrowpain (physical) · pain (mental)
How it's translated
- pains 3
- pain 2
- pain my 2
- pains its 1
- and own pain his 1
- with pain 1
- and pain my 1
- pain of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Isaiah 2
- Lamentations 2
- Exodus 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 6:29Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
- Job 33:19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
- Psalms 32:10Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
- Psalms 38:17For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
- Psalms 69:26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
- Ecclesiastes 1:18For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Hebrew dictionary
מַכְאוֹב makhov · pain
1) pain, sorrow 1a) pain (physical) 1b) pain (mental)
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.