כְּאֵב
ke.ev
“pain”
Definition
suffering (physical or mental), adversity
from H3510 (כָּאַב);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
כְּאֵב appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
though on the day you plantyou make them grow,and on that morningyou help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanishon the day of disease and incurable pain.
My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart,but you will cry out with a heavy heartand wail with a broken spirit.
Why is my pain unending,and my wound incurable,refusing to be healed?You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved,and if I hold back, how will it go away?
Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
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