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יָגָה

yaga · grieve, torment

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3013 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

yaga (יָגָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grieve, torment”.

To grieve, to cause sorrow, to afflict.

How to say it

ya·ga

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 make someone suffer, or to suffer oneself inwardly.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • grieve ×2
  • Those grieving ×1
  • are grieved ×1
  • has afflicted her ×1
  • has afflicted me ×1
  • he afflicts ×1
  • those who afflict you ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Job 19:2

    “How long will you grieve my soul, and crush me with words?

  • Isaiah 51:23

    And I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who said to your soul, ‘Bow down, and we will pass over’; and you made your back like the ground and like the street for those who passed over.”

  • Lamentations 1:4

    The roads of Zion mourn, because no one comes to the appointed feast; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins are grieved, and as for her, it is bitter for her.

  • Lamentations 1:5

    Her adversaries have become the head; her enemies are at ease, because YHWH has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions; her little children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

  • 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 3:32

    For though he afflicts, he will also have compassion according to the abundance of his loyal loves.

  • Lamentations 3:33

    For he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the sons of man.

  • Zephaniah 3:18

    “Those grieving far from the appointed feast I have gathered; from you they were; a burden on her was the reproach.