עֹצֶב
otsev · pain, idol
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6090 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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otsev (עֹצֶב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pain, idol”.
Pain: suffering of body or mind. In 1 Chronicles 4:9 it explains the name Jabez. In other passages the same Hebrew word means "idol," a figure made by human hands.
How to say it
o·tsev
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
- A carved or cast image worshiped as a god.
- The pain of one who suffers, like that of childbirth or of deep grief.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- pain ×3
- idol ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Chronicles 4:9
And Jabez was more honored than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
- Psalms 139:24
And see if there is a way of pain in me, and lead me in the eternal way.
- Isaiah 14:3
And it will happen, on the day when YHWH gives you rest from your pain and from your turmoil and from the hard service with which you were made to serve,
- Isaiah 48:5
I declared it to you long ago; before it came I made you hear it, lest you should say, ‘My idol did them, and my carved image and my cast image commanded them.’