To groan
נָאַקStrong’s H5008naaq (na-aq)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “groan”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to groan
How it's translated
- they groan 1
- and he will groan 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
נָאַק naaq · to groan
(Qal) to groan
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “groan” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GROAN, verb intransitive
[Latin grunnio; Heb. to cry out, to groan; Latin rana, a frog.]
- To breathe with a deep murmuring sound; to utter a mournful voice, as in pain or sorrow.“For we that are in this tabernacle, do groan being burdened” 2 Corinthians 5:4
- To sigh; to be oppressed or afflicted; or to complain of oppression.
All definitions and other forms of “groan”
GROAN, noun
A deep mournful sound, uttered in pain, sorrow or anguish.
- Any low, rumbling sound; as the groans of roaring wind.
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.