kaav · be in pain

What it means

kaav (כָּאַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be in pain”.

Be sore; grieve.

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 hurt in body or heart.
2. Cause pain; damage, ruin.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• pain ×5
• aches ×1
• painful ×1
• you will ruin ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 34:25

  It happened on the third day, while they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, brothers of Dinah, took each his sword and came upon the city, which was unsuspecting, and killed every male.

• 2 Kings 3:19

  You will strike every fortified city and every choice city, and every good tree you will fell, and all the springs of water you will stop up, and every good plot of land you will ruin with stones.”

• Job 5:18

  For he causes pain and binds up; he shatters, and his hands heal.

• Job 14:22

  Only his flesh on him feels pain, and his soul for him mourns.”

• Psalms 69:29

  But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, Elohim, set me on high.

• Proverbs 14:13

  Even in laughter the heart aches, and the end of joy is grief.

• Ezekiel 13:22

  Because you have disheartened with falsehood the heart of the righteous, whom I had not caused pain, and have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his evil way and live,

• Ezekiel 28:24

  And there will not be anymore for the house of Israel a prickling brier or a painful thorn from all those around them who despise them; and they will know that I am Adonai YHWH.’