International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Grievous; Grievously; Greievousness

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Grievous; Grievously; Greievousness


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grēv´us; grēv´us-li; grēv´us-nes: In addition to several of the words mentioned under GRIEF (which see), we have kābhēdh (“heavy”) 8 t, e.g. , “The famine was grievous in the land,” the Revised Version (British and American) “sore”; mārac (“powerful”), “a grievous curse” (); ṣur, “to turn aside” (), “grievous revolters”; ḳāsheh, “to make sharp” (; ); taḥălu'ı̄m (), “They shall die grievous deaths,” the Revised Version, margin “deaths of sicknesses”; ‛āthāḳ (), “which speak grievous things proudly,” the Revised Version (British and American) “against the righteous insolently”; ḥēṭ, “sin” (), “Jerus hath grievously sinned” (literally, “hath sinned a sin”); mā‛al, “trespass” (), “trespassing grievously” (literally, “trespassing a trespass”) the Revised Version (British and American) “committing a trespass”; kōbhedh, “weight” (), “grievousness”; barús, “heavy,” “grievous wolves” (), “grievous charges” (), “His commandments are not grievous” (); oknērós, the Revised Version (British and American) “irksome” (); ponērós, “evil” (), “a grievous sore”; dusbástaktos, “grievous to be borne” (; ); deinós, “greatly,” “grievously tormented” (); kakō̇s, “badly,” “grievously vexed” ().