כְּאֵב
keev · pain, suffering
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3511 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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keev (כְּאֵב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pain, suffering”.
It may be pain of the body or inward pain, of grief.
How to say it
ke·ev
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
- What makes body or heart suffer.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 2:13
They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that the pain was very great.
- Job 16:6
If I speak, my pain is not restrained; and if I cease, what goes away from me?
- Psalms 39:2
I became mute in silence; I kept quiet even from good, and my pain was stirred up.
- Isaiah 17:11
On the day of your planting you make it grow, and in the morning your seed you make blossom; the harvest will flee in the day of sickness and of incurable pain.
- Isaiah 65:14
look, my servants will shout for joy from goodness of heart, but you will cry out from pain of heart, and from the shattering of spirit you will wail.
- Jeremiah 15:18
Why has my pain been perpetual, and my wound beyond remedy, refusing to be healed? Will you really be to me like a deceptive brook, waters that are not faithful?