Genesis 40:6
And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.
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Sad
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Luke 24:17
And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
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σκυθρωπός
skythrōpós · skoo-thro-pos'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
angry-visaged, i.e. gloomy or affecting a mournful appearance
Strong's KJV usage: :--of a sad countenance.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 6:16Strong's last: Luke 24:17
Open full G4659 profile →רַע
raʻ · rah
2 times translated as this KJV form657 total Strong's occurrences
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.).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Nehemiah 2:1Strong's last: Nehemiah 2:2
Open full H7451 profile →στυγνάζω
stygnázō · stoog-nad'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to render gloomy, i.e. (by implication) glower (be overcast with clouds, or sombreness of speech)
Strong's KJV usage: :--lower, be sad.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 10:22Strong's last: Mark 10:22
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zâʻaph · zaw-af'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to boil up, i.e. (figuratively) to be peevish or angry
Strong's KJV usage: fret, sad, worse liking, be wroth.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 40:6Strong's last: Genesis 40:6
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yâraʻ · yaw-rah'
1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
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).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Nehemiah 2:3Strong's last: Nehemiah 2:3
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kâʼab · kaw-ab'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to feel pain; by implication, to grieve; figuratively, to spoil
Strong's KJV usage: grieving, mar, have pain, make sad (sore), (be) sorrowful.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 13:22Strong's last: Ezekiel 13:22
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kâʼâh · kaw-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to despond; causatively, to deject
Strong's KJV usage: broken, be grieved, make sad.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 13:22Strong's last: Ezekiel 13:22
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çar · sar
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
peevish
Strong's KJV usage: heavy, sad.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 21:5Strong's last: 1 Kings 21:5
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G4659
And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
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sad
SAD, adjective [It is probable this word is from the root of set. I have not found the word is from the root of set. I have not found the word in the English sense, in any other language.]
1. Sorrowful; affected with grief; cast down with affliction.
Th' angelic guards ascended, mute and sad
SAD for their loss, but joyful of our life.
2. Habitually melancholy; gloomy; not gay or cheerful.
See in her cell sad Eloisa spread.
3. Downcast; gloomy; having the external appearance of sorrow; as a sad countenance. Matthew 6:16.
4. Serious; grave; not gay, light or volatile.
Lady Catherine, a sad and religious woman.
5. Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as a sad accident; a sad misfortune.
6. Dark colored.
Woad or wade is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colors.
[This sense is, I believe, entirely obsolete.]
7. Bad; vexatious; as a sad husband. [Colloquial.]
8. Heavy; weighty; ponderous.
With that his hand more sad than lump of lead. obsolete
9. Close; firm; cohesive; opposed to light or friable.
Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad obsolete
[The two latter senses indicate that the primary sense is set, fixed.]
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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