עָגַם
ʻâgam · H5701 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to grieve, to feel sorry
Exact meaning unsure: process by which humans experience an emotion of grief for someone else and/or express this feeling by weeping
ExamplesJob 30:25 “Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard? Was my soul not grieved for the needy?
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
- נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ אֶבְיוֹןpoor 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 2 words
- יָגָה yâgâh · H3013 · to be grieved, to grieve, to torment
- עָגַם (ʻâgam, H5701) and יָגָה share the core sense “grieve,” describing causing or experiencing grief.
- אָדַב ʼâdab · H109 · to cause grief
- עָגַם (ʻâgam, H5701) and אָדַב (ʼâdab, H109) are two Hebrew words that both mean “to grieve.”
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Grieve002001002013
- A rare verb meaning to grieve, occurring in Ruth's declaration that she and Orpah grieve deeply for Naomi's sake.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5701. agam [עָגַם] verb be grieved (Late Hebrew id; Aramaic עֲגַם, and (in Lexicons) id;…
[עָגַם] verb be grieved (Late Hebrew id; Aramaic עֲגַם, and (in Lexicons) id; compare perhaps also Assyrian agâmu, be vexed DlHWB 16 (rare; cited under אגם)); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular לָאֶבְיוֺן נַפְשַׁי עָֽגְמָה ֗֗֗ אִםלֹֿא Job 30:25 was not my soul grieved for the poor ? (|| בָּכִיתִי).
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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