אָדַב
ʼâdab · H109 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to cause grief
To cause someone else to experience grief
Examples1 Samuel 2:33 ‘Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar, so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- עָצַב ʻâtsab · H6087 · to be hurt, to frustrate
- Both lexemes genuinely denote grieving or emotional distress and are plausible same-language near-synonyms, though the target's attestation is very limited, making direct comparison difficult.
- אָנָה ʼânâh · H578 · to mourn, to lament, to befall
- Both lexemes denote emotional responses to distress — grieving, lamenting, or mourning — and are genuine candidates for near-synonymy, substitutable for each other in overlapping contexts of expressing sorrow, though both are attested only rarely.
- עָגַם ʻâgam · H5701 · to grieve, to feel sorry
- Both words denote grief, “to grieve”; each occurs only once.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Grieve002001002013
- אָדַב describes causing grief, as the failing of eyes and grieving of soul pronounced on the house of Eli.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H109. adab [אָדַב] verb grieve; Hiph`il Infinitive לַאֲדִיב (= לְהַאֲדִיב Ges§ 53. 3. R,…
[אָדַב] verb grieve;
Hiph`il Infinitive לַאֲדִיב (= לְהַאֲדִיב Ges§ 53. 3. R, 7) to cause to grieve 1Sa 2:33. (But Dr proposes לְהָדִיב from דוב q. v.)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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