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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Grievous

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

38exact KJV occurrences 30Old Testament 8New Testament 17books containing the word 18mapped Strong's IDs 38occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

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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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 16:2

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.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where grievous appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH2470
חָלָה

châlâh · khaw-law'

4 times translated as this KJV form75 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH2342
חוּל

chûwl · khool

2 times translated as this KJV form61 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH7185
קָשָׁה

qâshâh · kaw-shaw'

2 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH7451
רַע

raʻ · rah

2 times translated as this KJV form657 total Strong's occurrences

a n-m n-f

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

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GreekG4190
πονηρός

ponērós · pon-ay-ros'

1 times translated as this KJV form77 total Strong's occurrences

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

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HebrewH3513
כָּבַד

kâbad · kaw-bad'

1 times translated as this KJV form121 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH5493
סוּר

çûwr · soor

1 times translated as this KJV form308 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Genesis 12:10
H3515

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.

Genesis 18:20
H3513

And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

Genesis 21:11
H3415

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.

Genesis 21:12
H3415

And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

Genesis 41:31
H3515

And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

Genesis 50:11
H3515

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

grievous

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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