To groan
פָּעָהStrong’s H6463paah (pa-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Paah is the Hebrew word usually translated “groan”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to groan, cry out, scream
How it's translated
- i groan 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
פָּעָה paah · to groan
(Qal) to groan, cry out, scream
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.