To hurt
עָצַבStrong’s H6087atsav (a-tsav)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Atsav is the Hebrew word usually translated “grieved”, “was pained” and “were indignant”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”
Meaning
- To hurt, pain, grieve, displease, vex, wrest(Qal) to hurt, pain · (Niphal) to be in pain, be pained, be grieved · (Piel) to vex, torture · (Hiphil) to cause pain · (Hithpael) to feel grieved, be vexed
- To shape, fashion, make, form, stretch into shape, (TWOT) worship(Piel) to shape, form · (Hiphil) to form, copy, fashion
How it's translated
- you be grieved 3
- and he was pained 1
- and they were indignant 1
- he should be grieved 1
- he was grieved 1
- he is grieved 1
- he had rebuked him 1
- to hurt me 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- Nehemiah 2
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 2
- 2 Samuel 1
11 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 34:7And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
- Genesis 45:5Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
- 1 Samuel 20:3And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
- 1 Samuel 20:34So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.
- 2 Samuel 19:2And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
- 1 Kings 1:6And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
Hebrew dictionary
עָצַב atsav · to hurt
1) to hurt, pain, grieve, displease, vex, wrest 1a) (Qal) to hurt, pain 1b)(Niphal) to be in pain, be pained, be grieved 1c) (Piel) to vex, torture 1d) (Hiphil) to cause pain 1e) (Hithpael) to feel grieved, be vexed Aramaic equivalent: a.tsav (עֲצַב "to pain" H6088)
עָצַב atsav · to shape
1) to shape, fashion, make, form, stretch into shape, (TWOT) worship 1a) (Piel) to shape, form 1b) (Hiphil) to form, copy, fashion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hurt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HURT, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive hurt
- To bruise; to give pain by a contusion, pressure, or any violence to the body. Psalms 105:18
- To wound; to injure or impair the sound state of the body, as by incision or fracture.
- To harm; to damage; to injure by occasioning loss.
- To injure by diminution; to impair.
All definitions and other forms of “hurt”
- To injure by reducing in quality; to impair the strength, purity or beauty of.
- To harm; to injure; to damage, in general.
- To wound; to injure; to give pain to; as, to hurt the feelings.
HURT, noun
A wound; a bruise; any thing that gives pain to the body.
- Harm; mischief; injury.“I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt” Genesis 4:23
- Injury; loss.“Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?” Ezra 4:22
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.