1 Samuel 1:15
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
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Sorrowful
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Philippians 2:28
I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
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4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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λυπέω
lypéō · loo-peh'-o
6 times translated as this KJV form33 total Strong's occurrences
to distress; reflexively or passively, to be sad
Strong's KJV usage: :--cause grief, grieve, be in heaviness, (be) sorrow(-ful), be (make) sorry.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 19:22Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 6:10
Open full G3076 profile →περίλυπος
perílypos · per-il'-oo-pos
4 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
grieved all around, i.e. intensely sad
Strong's KJV usage: :--exceeding (very) sorry(-owful).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 26:38Strong's last: Luke 18:24
Open full G4036 profile →כָּאַב
kâʼab · kaw-ab'
2 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: Psalms 69:29Strong's last: Proverbs 14:13
Open full H3510 profile →ἀλυπότερος
alypóteros · al-oo-pot'-er-os
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
more without grief
Strong's KJV usage: :--less sorrowful.
Strong's first: Philippians 2:28Strong's last: Philippians 2:28
Open full G253 profile →דָּאַב
dâʼab · daw-ab'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to pine
Strong's KJV usage: mourn, sorrow(-ful).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 31:25Strong's last: Jeremiah 31:25
Open full H1669 profile →דְּוַי
dᵉvay · dev-ah'ee
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
sickness; figuratively, loathing
Strong's KJV usage: languishing, sorrowful.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 6:7Strong's last: Job 6:7
Open full H1741 profile →חוּל
chûwl · khool
1 times translated as this KJV form61 total Strong's occurrences
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: Zechariah 9:5Strong's last: Zechariah 9:5
Open full H2342 profile →יָגָה
yâgâh · yaw-gaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to grieve
Strong's KJV usage: afflict, cause grief, grieve, sorrowful, vex.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Zephaniah 3:18Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:18
Open full H3013 profile →קָשֶׁה
qâsheh · kaw-sheh'
1 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 1:15Strong's last: 1 Samuel 1:15
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G4036
And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.
G4036
And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
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sorrowful
SOR'ROWFUL, adjective
1. Sad; grieving for the loss of some good, or on account of some expected evil.
2. Deeply serious; depressed; dejected. I Sam. 1.
3. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; as a sorrowful accident.
4. Expressing grief; accompanied with grief; as sorrowful meat. Job 6:7.
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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