atsav · be grieved

What it means

atsav (עָצַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be grieved”.

Grieve, be deeply distressed; also cause pain.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To feel pain or grief in the heart, or to cause it to someone.
2. To shape with the hands, as a potter does with clay.
3. To twist what someone says to give it another meaning.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• grieved ×11
• be distressed ×1
• it may not pain me ×1
• make her image ×1
• shaped me ×1
• they twist ×1
• will be hurt ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 6:6

  And YHWH was sorry that he had made the human being on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart.

• Genesis 34:7

  The sons of Jacob came from the field when they heard it, and the men were grieved and very angry, because he had done an outrage in Israel by lying with the daughter of Jacob, and such a thing is not done.

• Genesis 45:5

  And now, do not be distressed, and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for to preserve life Elohim sent me before you.

• 1 Samuel 20:3

  David swore again and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly, as YHWH lives and as your soul lives, there is but as it were a step between me and death.”

• 1 Samuel 20:34

  Jonathan rose from the table in hot anger, and he did not eat bread on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved for David, because his father had put him to shame.

• 2 Samuel 19:2

  So the salvation on that day became mourning for all the people, for the people heard on that day, saying, “The king is grieved for his son.”

• 1 Kings 1:6

  His father had never grieved him by saying, “Why have you done so?” He too was very handsome in form, and his mother had borne him after Absalom.

• 1 Chronicles 4:10

  And Jabez called on the Elohim of Israel, saying, “If you would indeed bless me, and enlarge my territory, and your hand would be with me, and you would act keeping me from evil, so that it may not pain me…!” And Elohim brought what he asked.

• Nehemiah 8:10

  And he said to them, “Go, eat rich fatty foods and drink sweet drinks, and send portions to the one for whom nothing is prepared, for holy is the day to our Lord; and do not be grieved, for the joy of YHWH is your stronghold.”

• Nehemiah 8:11

  And the Levites were quieting all the people, saying, “Be still, for the day is holy; and do not be grieved.”

• Job 10:8

  Your hands shaped me and made me altogether all around, and you swallow me up.

• Psalms 56:5

  All the day they twist my words; against me are all their thoughts for evil.

• Psalms 78:40

  How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, grieved him in the wasteland!

• Ecclesiastes 10:9

  Whoever moves stones will be hurt by them; whoever splits logs will be endangered by them.

• Isaiah 54:6

  For like a woman abandoned and grieved in spirit YHWH has called you, and like the wife of youth when she is rejected,” says your Elohim.

• Isaiah 63:10

  But they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit; so he turned to be their enemy; he himself fought against them.

• Jeremiah 44:19

  “And when we burn incense to the queen of the heavens and pour out libations to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her cakes to make her image and poured out libations to her?”