כָּאַב kâʼab
Meaning
properly, to feel pain; by implication, to grieve; figuratively, to spoil
In the King James Version: grieving, mar, have pain, make sad (sore), (be) sorrowful.
Derivation: a primitive root;
Where it is used
- Genesis 34:25 Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
- 2 Kings 3:19 And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”
- Job 5:18 For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- Job 14:22 He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”
- Psalms 69:29 But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.
- Proverbs 14:13 Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
- Ezekiel 13:22 Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,
- Ezekiel 28:24 For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’