Anguish
קְפָדָהStrong’s H7089qephadah (qe-pha-dah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qephadah is the Hebrew word usually translated “anguish”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.”
Meaning
- Shuddering, anguish
How it's translated
- anguish 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
קְפָדָה qephadah · anguish
shuddering, anguish
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “anguish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AN'GUISH, noun
[Latin angustia, narrowness, from pressure. See Anger.]
- “And they hearkened not to Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage” Exodus 6:9
All definitions and other forms of “anguish”
AN'GUISH, verb transitive
To distress with extreme pain or grief.
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.