yagon · sorrow, grief

What it means

yagon (יָגוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sorrow, grief”.

Deep sorrow, grief.

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. A deep pain of the soul, of one who loses something or someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• sorrow ×13
• affliction ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Esther×1
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 42:38

  But he said, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should befall him on the journey you are making, you would bring down my gray hair in sorrow to Sheol.”

• Genesis 44:31

  when he sees that the young man is not there, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to Sheol.

• Esther 9:22

  as the days in which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of banqueting and gladness, and of sending portions each to his companion, and gifts to the needy.

• Psalms 13:2

  How long will I put counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart by day? How long will my enemy rise up over me?

• Psalms 31:10

  For my life is spent in sorrow and my years in groaning; my strength has faltered because of my iniquity, and my bones have wasted away.

• Psalms 107:39

  And they decrease and are bowed down by oppression, evil, and sorrow.

• Psalms 116:3

  The cords of death encompassed me, and the distresses of Sheol found me; distress and sorrow I found.

• Isaiah 35:10

  And the ransomed of YHWH will return and come to Zion with shouting for joy, and eternal gladness will be on their heads; joy and gladness they will obtain, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

• Isaiah 51:11

  And the ransomed of YHWH will return, and come to Zion with joyful shouting, and eternal gladness will be on their head; joy and gladness they will obtain; sorrow and sighing will flee.

• Jeremiah 8:18

  My comfort in sorrow! Within me my heart is faint.

• Jeremiah 20:18

  Why did I come out from the womb to see suffering and sorrow, and that my days should be consumed in shame?

• Jeremiah 31:13

  Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and I will comfort them and make them rejoice out of their sorrow.

• Jeremiah 45:3

  You said, ‘Woe now to me, for YHWH has added affliction to my pain; I am weary with my sighing, and rest I have not found.’

• Ezekiel 23:33

  With drunkenness and sorrow you will be filled, a cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.