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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Sorrow

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.

70exact KJV occurrences 54Old Testament 16New Testament 23books containing the word 31mapped Strong's IDs 70occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 3:16

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 21:4

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where sorrow appears.

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

Genesis 65 verses Exodus 11 verses Leviticus 11 verses Deuteronomy 11 verses 1 Chronicles 11 verses Nehemiah 11 verses Esther 11 verses Job 44 verses Psalms 77 verses Proverbs 55 verses Ecclesiastes 44 verses Isaiah 88 verses Jeremiah 88 verses Lamentations 43 verses Ezekiel 11 verses Hosea 11 verses Luke 11 verses John 44 verses Romans 11 verses 2 Corinthians 43 verses Philippians 21 verses 1 Thessalonians 11 verses Revelation 32 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

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.

HebrewH5999
עָמָל

ʻâmâl · aw-mawl'

2 times translated as this KJV form55 total Strong's occurrences

n

toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, whether of body or mind

Strong's KJV usage: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Job 3:10Strong's last: Psalms 55:10

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HebrewH6093
עִצָּבוֹן

ʻitstsâbôwn · its-tsaw-bone'

2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

worrisomeness, i.e. labor or pain

Strong's KJV usage: sorrow, toil.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 3:16Strong's last: Genesis 3:17

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HebrewH205
אָוֶן

ʼâven · aw-ven'

1 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol

Strong's KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Psalms 90:10Strong's last: Psalms 90:10

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HebrewH1670
דְּאָבָה

dᵉʼâbâh · deh-aw-baw'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

properly, pining; by analogy, fear

Strong's KJV usage: sorrow.

Strong's first: Job 41:22Strong's last: Job 41:22

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HebrewH2342
חוּל

chûwl · khool

1 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.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Jeremiah 51:29Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:29

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HebrewH2490
חָלַל

châlal · khaw-lal'

1 times translated as this KJV form141 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute)

Strong's KJV usage: begin (× men began), defile, × break, defile, × eat (as common things), × first, × gather the grape thereof, × take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Hosea 8:10Strong's last: Hosea 8:10

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HebrewH4044
מְגִנָּה

mᵉginnâh · meg-in-naw'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

a covering (in a bad sense), i.e. blindness or obduracy

Strong's KJV usage: sorrow. See also 4043.

Strong's first: Lamentations 3:65Strong's last: Lamentations 3:65

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HebrewH6862
צַר

tsar · tsar

1 times translated as this KJV form103 total Strong's occurrences

a n-m

narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)

Strong's KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Isaiah 5:30Strong's last: Isaiah 5:30

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HebrewH7451
רַע

raʻ · rah

1 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.).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 44:29Strong's last: Genesis 44:29

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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70 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Genesis 3:16
H6093

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Genesis 3:16
H6089

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Genesis 3:17
H6093

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Genesis 42:38
H3015

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 44:29
H7451

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 44:31
H3015

It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

Exodus 15:14
H2427

The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

Leviticus 26:16
H1727

I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Deuteronomy 28:65
H1671

And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

1 Chronicles 4:9
H6090

And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

Nehemiah 2:2
H7455

Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

Esther 9:22
H3015

As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

Job 3:10
H5999

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

Job 6:10
H2427

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

Job 17:7
H3708

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

Job 41:22
H1670

In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

Psalms 13:2
H3015

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

Psalms 38:17
H4341

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

Psalms 39:2
H3511

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

Psalms 55:10
H5999

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

Psalms 90:10
H205

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Psalms 107:39
H3015

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Psalms 116:3
H3015

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Proverbs 10:10
H6094

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

Proverbs 10:22
H6089

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

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

sorrow

SOR'ROW, noun The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good. or of frustrated hopes of good, or expected loss of happiness; to grieve; to be sad. I rejoice not that ye were made sorry, but the ye sorrowed to repentance. I Cor. 7. Sorrowing most of all for the words which be spoke, that they should see his face no more. Acts 20:1.

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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