Strong's Lexicon: H3510 כָּאַב

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3510
Word:	כָּאַב
Part of Speech:	verb-stem
Etymology:	a primitive root
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	8
Transliteration:	ka'ab
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	kaw-ab'
Meaning:	1. (properly) to feel pain 2. (by implication) to grieve 3. (figuratively) to spoil
KJV Renderings:	grieving, mar, have pain, make sad (sore), (be) sorrowful.

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כָּאַב verb be in pain (Aramaic כְּאֵב, [untranscribed source text 2401] id.; Arabic [untranscribed source text 2402] be sorrowful, sad; Assyrian in derivatives, ikkibu , pain Zim^{BP 67}, kêbtu , ruin Hpt in KAT^{2 Glossary i} .) —

Qal Imperfect יִכְאָבֿ Prov 14:13 יִכְאָ֑ב Job 14:22 Participle כּוֺאֵב Ps 69:30 כֹּאֲבִים Gen 34:25 —

1. be in pain, physical Gen 34:25 ( J , as result of circumcision); Job 14:22 (subject בָּשָׂר; poetic of body in grave || נַפְשׁוֺ תֶּאֱבָ֑ל).

2. of mental pain Prov 14:13 (subject לֵב; probably also Ps 69:30 (|| עָנִי).

Hiph`il Perfect 1 singular suffix הִכְאַבְתִּיו Ezek 13:22 2 feminine plural הִכְאַבְתֶּן Ezek 13:22 ᵐ5 ᵑ7 Co ( ᵑ0 הַכְאוֺת see כָּאָה ); Imperfect יַכְאִיב Job 5:18 תַּכְאִ֫בוּ 2Kgs 3:19 Participle מַכְאִב Ezek 28:24 — pain, mar;

1. of enemies of Israel under figure of thorn causing pain (no object expressed) ׳ קוֺץ מַכ Ezek 28:24 (|| מַמְאִיר סִלּוֺן); of שַׁדַּי, no object expressed, Job 5:18 (opposed to חָבַשׁ, || מָחַץ.

2. of mental pain, object לֵב, Ezek 13:22 (subject false prophetesses, see above); compare Ezek 13:22 (subject ׳ י).

3. (si vera lectio) of marring good land with stones 2Kgs 3:19, ᵐ5 άχρειώσετε (Klo תְּאַבְּדוּ).

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

כאב (kah-av’)

Job 14:22

KJV: But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

EHCC: his flesh upon him shall have pain,

Proverbs 14:13

KJV: Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

EHCC: Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful;

Genesis 34:25

KJV: And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

EHCC: when they were sore,

Psalms 69:29

KJV: But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

EHCC: (30). But 1 (am) poor and sorrowful:

2 Kings 3:19

KJV: And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.mar: Heb. grieve

EHCC: and mar (marg. grieve) evi pieca

Job 6:18

KJV: The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

EHCC: For he Sor ssofe, and Reeth Sn

Ezekiel 28:24

KJV: And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.

EHCC: nor (any) grieving thorn

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