Pain
עֹ֫צֶבStrong’s H6090otsev (o-tsev)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Otsev is the Hebrew word usually translated “pain”, “idol” and “from pain your”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.”
Meaning
- Pain, sorrow
- Idol
How it's translated
- in pain 1
- an idol 1
- from pain your 1
- idol my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 139:24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
- Isaiah 14:3And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
- Isaiah 48:5I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
Hebrew dictionary
עֹ֫צֶב otsev · pain
pain, sorrow
עֹ֫צֶב otsev · idol
idol
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.