machov · pain

What it means

machov (מַכְאֹב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pain”.

Suffering.

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. What hurts, in the body or in the spirit.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• pain ×11
• pains ×4
• sufferings ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×3

• Exodus 3:7

  YHWH said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sufferings.

• 2 Chronicles 6:29

  whatever prayer, whatever supplication that is made by any human being or by all your people Israel, who know, each his own sore and his own pain, and spread out his hands toward this house,

• Job 33:19

  He is also rebuked with pain on his bed, and all his bones in constant pain,

• Psalms 32:10

  Many are the pains of the wicked, but the one who trusts in YHWH, loyal love surrounds him.

• Psalms 38:17

  For I am ready for stumbling, and my pain is before me continually.

• Psalms 69:26

  For the one whom you struck they persecute, and of the pain of your wounded they talk.

• Ecclesiastes 1:18

  For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases pain.

• Ecclesiastes 2:23

  For all his days are pains, and his occupation is vexation; even at night his heart does not lie down. This too is vapor.

• Isaiah 53:3

  Despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and acquainted with sickness; and like one from whom the face is hidden, despised, and we did not esteem him.

• Isaiah 53:4

  Surely our sicknesses he carried, and our pains he bore them; yet we considered him stricken, struck by Elohim and afflicted.

• Jeremiah 30:15

  Why do you cry out over your breaking? Beyond remedy is your pain. Because of the multitude of your iniquity, because your sins have become strong, I have done these things to you.

• 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.’

• Jeremiah 51:8

  Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

• Lamentations 1:12

  “Is it nothing to you, all who pass by on the road? Look and see if there is pain like my pain that has been dealt to me, with which YHWH has afflicted me in the day of his burning anger.

• Lamentations 1:18

  “Righteous is he, YHWH, for against his mouth I have rebelled; hear, please, all the peoples, and see my pain; my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

And 1 more times.