Grief
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Grief (252 Occurrences)
...GRIEF; GRIEVE. gref, grev: There are some 20 Hebrew words translated in the
King James Version by "grief," "grieve," "to be grieved," etc. ...
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Grieve (29 Occurrences)
... of Greeve. 2. (vt) To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make
sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try. ...GRIEF; GRIEVE. ...
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Haircloth (38 Occurrences)
... haircloth. (BBE). Genesis 37:34 Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth,
and went on weeping for his son day after day. (BBE). ...
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Grieving (12 Occurrences)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grieve. 2. (a.) Sad; sorrowful; causing grief. 3. (n.) The
act of causing grief; the state of being grieved. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Vexation (36 Occurrences)
... shadow. (See JPS). Psalms 6:7 Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth
old because of all mine adversaries. (See JPS). Psalms ...
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Sounds (64 Occurrences)
... Job 35:9 Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of
grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong. (BBE). ...
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Sorrowing (33 Occurrences)
... now. (BBE). Romans 12:15 Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and
in the grief of those who are sorrowing. (BBE). Revelation ...
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Solace (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which
relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief. ...
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Heavy (110 Occurrences)
... 4. (superl.) Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down,
either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment. ...
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Mourning (85 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow. 3. (n.) Garb,
drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. ... See BURIAL; GRIEF. ...
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Bewail (9 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To express grief; to lament. Int. ... It is used to express the most intense
grief, a sorrow that compels outward demonstration (Luke 8:52; Luke 23:27). ...
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Ah (43 Occurrences)
... (2) 'ach, occurs once (Ezekiel 21:15), expressing grief in contemplating Israel's
destruction. ... (4) hoy, expresses grief or pain, (Isaiah 1:4 Jeremiah 22:18). ...
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Heaviness (14 Occurrences)
... Revised Version (British and American) "I bowed down mourning"); of kabhedh (Isaiah
47:6). Heaviness has always the sense of anxiety, sorrow, grief, etc.; de ...
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Repentance (28 Occurrences)
... God. The principal idea is not personal relation to sin, either in its
experience of grief or in turning from an evil course. Yet ...
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Injury (21 Occurrences)
... 2 Corinthians 7:9 Now I rejoice, not in your grief, but because the grief led to
repentance; for you sorrowed with a godly sorrow, which prevented you from ...
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Fasting (34 Occurrences)
... on account of Naboth's refusal to part with his estate, sulked and "would eat no
bread." Fasting, originally the natural expression of grief, became the ...
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Makers (20 Occurrences)
... 2 Chronicles 35:25 And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day
Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of ...
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Assuage (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vt) To soften; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen pain or grief; to appease
or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. ...
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Aha (11 Occurrences)
... (2) 'ach, occurs once (Ezekiel 21:15), expressing grief in contemplating Israel's
destruction. ... (4) hoy, expresses grief or pain, (Isaiah 1:4 Jeremiah 22:18). ...
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Anguish (75 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To distress with extreme pain or grief. Int. ... (WEB ASV). Romans 9:2 when I
declare that I have deep grief and unceasing anguish of heart. (WEY RSV NIV). ...
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Mourn (87 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (vi) To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve;
to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness. ...
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Cries (116 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Matthew 11:17 We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance;
we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief. (BBE). ...
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Barefoot (7 Occurrences)
... and barefoot" (Isaiah 20:3, 4). It seems that David in his flight before Absalom
"went barefoot," not to facilitate his flight, but to show his grief (2 Samuel ...
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Fast (157 Occurrences)
... religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the
mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation ...
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Signs (127 Occurrences)
... Signs (127 Occurrences). Matthew 11:17 We made music for you and you did not take
part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief. ...
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Bitterness (37 Occurrences)
... or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness;
severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation ...
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Grievous (73 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive;
hard to bear; offensive; as, a grievous error in judgment. ...
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Melody (55 Occurrences)
... 2 Chronicles 35:25 And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day
Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of ...
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Soft (36 Occurrences)
... me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they
would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before ...
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Sorrow (277 Occurrences)
... The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or
supposed, or by disappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having ...
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Wasted (106 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Psalms 31:9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are
wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body. (BBE NAS RSV). ...
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Weep (97 Occurrences)
... 3. (vi) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest
signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears ...
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Grieved (87 Occurrences)
... John 16:20 Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, ye, but
the world shall rejoice; and ye will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned ...
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Unclothed (14 Occurrences)
... Micah 1:8 For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go
uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be ...
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Luxuriously (6 Occurrences)
... Revelation 18:7 So much as she has glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
so much torment and grief give to her. Because she says ...
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Grain-floor (27 Occurrences)
... Genesis 50:11 And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the
grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians ...
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Grudge (11 Occurrences)
... 3. (vi) To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to
repine; to be unwilling or reluctant. 4. (vi) To feel compunction or grief. ...
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Withers (20 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Isaiah 24:4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full
of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing. ...
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Weeps (7 Occurrences)
... prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands:
and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him ...
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Wasteth (10 Occurrences)
... place. (YLT). Psalms 6:7 Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth
old because of all mine adversaries. (ASV DBY). Psalms ...
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Ruler's (13 Occurrences)
... there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is
a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief. (BBE NIV). ...
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Regret (17 Occurrences)
... done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking
back with dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a ...
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Repenting (6 Occurrences)
... 2 Corinthians 7:9 Now I rejoice, not in your grief, but because the grief led to
repentance; for you sorrowed with a godly sorrow, which prevented you from ...
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Exclamation (2 Occurrences)
... clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression
of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger ...
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Exult (50 Occurrences)
... judgment. (YLT). 1 Peter 1:6 Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present,
if needed, put to grief by various trials, (DBY). 1 ...
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Mind (615 Occurrences)
... soul" is rendered by "mind" (Deuteronomy 18:6 the King James Version, "desire of
his soul" or "mind"); sometimes ruah or "spirit" (Genesis 26:35, "grief of mind ...
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Moan (13 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain,
whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously. ...
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Pity (165 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy
with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration ...
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Prevented (19 Occurrences)
... 2 Corinthians 7:9 Now I rejoice, not in your grief, but because the grief led to
repentance; for you sorrowed with a godly sorrow, which prevented you from ...
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Contrite (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because
it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent. ...
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Cuttings (5 Occurrences)
... (sereT, sareTeth): For relatives or friends to cut or beat themselves even to free
blood-flowing, especially in the violence of grief in mourning for their ...
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Ashes (44 Occurrences)
... ASHES. ash'-iz: Among the ancient Hebrews and other Orientals, to sprinkle with
or sit in ashes was a mark or token of grief, humiliation, or penitence. ...
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Lament (44 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. 3. (v.) Grief or sorrow expressed in
complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. ...
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Smart (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer;
to feel the sting of evil. 3. (vt) To cause a smart in. ...
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Suffer (195 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress
or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind. ...
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Sigh (18 Occurrences)
... immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the
result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or ...
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Weeping (237 Occurrences)
... bitterly. (BBE). Luke 23:27 And a great band of people went after him, and
of women making signs of grief and weeping for him. (BBE). ...
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Beard (23 Occurrences)
... Then said Achish,. Lo, ye see the man is mad." (5) It was common. Semitic custom
to cut both hair and beard as a token of grief or distress. ...
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Dress (38 Occurrences)
... 16:10; Zephaniah 1:8 (RV, "foreign apparel"); 1 Timothy 2:9; 1 Peter 3:3. Rending
the robes was expressive of grief (Genesis 37:29, 34), fear (1 Kings 21:27 ...
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Wailing (44 Occurrences)
... in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of
sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief: (See NAS ...
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Childbirth (24 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 21:3 For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a
woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes ...
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Despair (23 Occurrences)
... 2:7 So that you may now take the opposite course, and forgive him rather and comfort
him, for fear he should perhaps be driven to despair by his excess of grief...
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Training (32 Occurrences)
... O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters
to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief. ...
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Gesture
... (Judges 8:28 Psalm 27:6; Psalm 110:7 Zechariah 1:21); to cover the head was a symbol
of grief or mourning (2 Samuel 15:30 Esther 6:12 Jeremiah 14:3), also ...
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Rolling (32 Occurrences)
... O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself
to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he ...
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Sorrows (37 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Ecclesiastes 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief;
yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. ...
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Parting (27 Occurrences)
... (BBE). 2 Kings 22:11 And the king, hearing the words of the book of the law, took
his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief; (BBE). ...
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Sad (73 Occurrences)
... or frivolous. 5. (superl.) Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down
with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful. 6. (superl ...
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Head-dress (22 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 61:3 To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place
of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be ...
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Breathing (25 Occurrences)
... has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her,
because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is ...
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Groan (32 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 19:8 The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into
the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the ...
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Grows (46 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Psalms 6:7 My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because
of all my adversaries. ... Selah. (See NAS). Psalms 88:9 My eyes are dim from grief. ...
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Gladness (83 Occurrences)
... lament, but the world will be glad. You will mourn, but your grief will
be turned into gladness. (WEY). John 16:22 So you also now ...
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Fact (98 Occurrences)
... 7:7 but also by the fact that he had felt comforted on your account, and by the
report which he brought of your eager affection, of your grief, and of your ...
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Sarai (13 Occurrences)
... The grief and devotion of Abraham are broadly displayed in Genesis 23, in
which he seeks and obtains a burying-place for his wife. ...
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Untrue (50 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 26:40 And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their
fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me; (BBE). ...
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Bent (107 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Psalms 35:14 My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother:
I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead. (BBE). ...
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Troubling (51 Occurrences)
... none troubling. (YLT). Lamentations 3:33 For he has no pleasure in troubling
and causing grief to the children of men. (BBE). Ezekiel ...
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Aloud (141 Occurrences)
... You will mourn, but your grief will be turned into gladness. (WEY). John 20:11
Meanwhile Mary remained standing near the tomb, weeping aloud. ...
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Almost (27 Occurrences)
... Philippians 2:27 For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him;
and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief. ...
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