Agony
שָׁבָץStrong’s H7661shavats (sha-vats)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shavats is the Hebrew word usually translated “dizziness”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.”
Meaning
- Cramp, agony, anguishmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- dizziness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שָׁבָץ shavats · agony
1) cramp, agony, anguish 1a) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “agony” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AG'ONY, noun
[Gr. a contest with bodily exertion; a word used to denote the athletic games, in Greece; whence anguish, solicitude; from Latin ago. Gr. to strive. See Act.]
- In strictness, pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece.
- Extreme pain of body or mind; anguish; appropriately, the pangs of death, and the sufferings of our Savior in the garden of Gethsemane. Luke 22:44
- Violent contest or striving.
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.