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λυπέω
lypéō · Greek · Strong's G3076 · 26 occurrences
The KJV renders 25 different Hebrew and Greek words as “sorrow”
What it means
to distress; reflexively or passively, to be sad
from G3077 (λύπη);
How the KJV renders it
cause grief, grieve, be in heaviness, sorrow, be sorry
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“sorrow”
also renders pénthos (G3997), ōdín (G5604), odýnē (G3601), lýpē (G3077), odynáō (G3600), ʼăbôwy (H17), ʼâven (H205), dâʼab (H1669), dᵉʼâbâh (H1670), chebel (H2256), chûwl (H2342), chîyl (H2427), châlal (H2490), yâgôwn (H3015), kᵉʼêb (H3511), kaʻaç (H3708), mᵉginnâh (H4044), makʼôb (H4341), ʻâmâl (H5999), ʻetseb (H6089), ʻôtseb (H6090), tsîyr (H6735), raʻ (H7451), rôaʻ (H7455)
“cause grief”
also renders yâgâh (H3013)
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Where it appears
26 occurrences in the Greek text, first 21 verses shown.
1 Peter 1:6 · V-APP-NPM
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,
1 Thessalonians 4:13 · V-PPS-2P
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
2 Corinthians 2:2 · V-PAI-1S
For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?
2 Corinthians 2:4 · V-APS-2P
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
2 Corinthians 2:5 · V-RAI-3S
But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
2 Corinthians 6:10 · V-PPP-NPM
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 7:8 V-AAI-1S2 Corinthians 7:9 V-API-2P2 Corinthians 7:11 V-APNEphesians 4:30 V-PAM-2PJohn 16:20 V-FPI-2PJohn 21:17 V-API-3SMatthew 14:9 V-APP-NSMMatthew 17:23 V-API-3PMatthew 18:31 V-API-3PMatthew 19:22 V-PPP-NSMMatthew 26:22 V-PPP-NPMMatthew 26:37 V-PPNMark 10:22 V-PPP-NSMMark 14:19 V-PPNRomans 14:15 V-PPI-3S
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