Genesis 12:10
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
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And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
Read in context →And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
Read in context →6 occurrences in 6 verses.
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kâbêd · kaw-bade'
heavy; figuratively in a good sense (numerous) or in a bad sense (severe, difficult, stupid)
Strong's KJV usage: (so) great, grievous, hard(-ened), (too) heavy(-ier), laden, much, slow, sore, thick.
Strong's first: Genesis 12:10Strong's last: Exodus 10:14
Open full H3515 profile →châlâh · khaw-law'
properly, to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat
Strong's KJV usage: beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat, lay to, put to pain, × pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (× supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 10:19Strong's last: Nahum 3:19
Open full H2470 profile →barýs · bar-ooce'
weighty, i.e. (fig) burdensome, grave
Strong's KJV usage: :--grievous, heavy, weightier.
Strong's first: Acts 20:29Strong's last: 1 John 5:3
Open full G926 profile →yâraʻ · yaw-rah'
properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear
Strong's KJV usage: be grevious (only Isaiah 15:4; the rest belong to 7489).
Strong's first: Genesis 21:11Strong's last: Isaiah 15:4
Open full H3415 profile →qâsheh · kaw-sheh'
severe (in various applications)
Strong's KJV usage: churlish, cruel, grievous, hard((-hearted), thing), heavy, impudent, obstinate, prevailed, rough(-ly), sore, sorrowful, stiff(necked), stubborn, in trouble.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 12:4Strong's last: Isaiah 21:2
Open full H7186 profile →dysbástaktos · doos-bas'-tak-tos
oppressive
Strong's KJV usage: :--grievous to be borne.
Strong's first: Matthew 23:4Strong's last: Luke 11:46
Open full G1419 profile →chûwl · khool
properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e. (specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fear; figuratively, to wait, to pervert
Strong's KJV usage: bear, (make to) bring forth, (make to) calve, dance, drive away, fall grievously (with pain), fear, form, great, grieve, (be) grievous, hope, look, make, be in pain, be much (sore) pained, rest, shake, shapen, (be) sorrow(-ful), stay, tarry, travail (with pain), tremble, trust, wait carefully (patiently), be wounded.
Strong's first: Psalms 10:5Strong's last: Jeremiah 23:19
Open full H2342 profile →qâshâh · kaw-shaw'
properly, to be dense, i.e. tough or severe (in various applications)
Strong's KJV usage: be cruel, be fiercer, make grievous, be ((ask a), be in, have, seem, would) hard(-en, (labour), -ly, thing), be sore, (be, make) stiff(-en, (-necked)).
Strong's first: 1 Kings 12:4Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 10:4
Open full H7185 profile →raʻ · rah
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Strong's KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), exceedingly, × great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Strong's first: Proverbs 15:10Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 2:17
Open full H7451 profile →lýpē · loo'-pay
sadness
Strong's KJV usage: :--grief, grievous, + grudgingly, heaviness, sorrow.
Strong's first: Hebrews 12:11Strong's last: Hebrews 12:11
Open full G3077 profile →oknērós · ok-nay-ros'
tardy, i.e. indolent; (figuratively) irksome
Strong's KJV usage: :--grievous, slothful.
Strong's first: Philippians 3:1Strong's last: Philippians 3:1
Open full G3636 profile →ponērós · pon-ay-ros'
hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from G2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from G4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners
Strong's KJV usage: :--bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked(-ness).
Strong's first: Revelation 16:2Strong's last: Revelation 16:2
Open full G4190 profile →kâbad · kaw-bad'
to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)
Strong's KJV usage: abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, × be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, × more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.
Strong's first: Genesis 18:20Strong's last: Genesis 18:20
Open full H3513 profile →mârats · maw-rats'
properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to be pungent or vehement; to irritate
Strong's KJV usage: embolden, be forcible, grievous, sore.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 2:8Strong's last: 1 Kings 2:8
Open full H4834 profile →çûwr · soor
to turn off (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), × grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, × be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 6:28Strong's last: Jeremiah 6:28
Open full H5493 profile →ʻetseb · eh'-tseb
an earthen vessel; usually (painful) toil; also a pang (whether of body or mind)
Strong's KJV usage: grievous, idol, labor, sorrow.
Strong's first: Proverbs 15:1Strong's last: Proverbs 15:1
Open full H6089 profile →ʻâthâq · aw-thawk'
impudent
Strong's KJV usage: arrogancy, grievous (hard) things, stiff.
Strong's first: Psalms 31:18Strong's last: Psalms 31:18
Open full H6277 profile →tachălûwʼ · takh-al-oo'
a malady
Strong's KJV usage: disease, × grievous, (that are) sick(-ness).
Strong's first: Jeremiah 16:4Strong's last: Jeremiah 16:4
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For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
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GRIE'VOUS, adjective [from grieve, or grief.] Heavy; oppressive; burdensome; as a grievous load of taxes.
1. Afflictive; painful; hard to be borne.
Correction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way. Proverbs 15:1.
2. Causing grief or sorrow.
The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son. Genesis 21:11.
3. Distressing.
The famine was very grievous in the land. Genesis 12:10.
4. Great; atrocious.
Because their sin is very grievous Gen 18.
5. Expressing great uneasiness; as a grievous complaint.
6. Provoking; offensive; tending to irritate; as grievous words. Proverbs 15:1.
7. Hurtful; destructive; causing mischief; as grievous wolves. Acts 20:29.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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