יָגָה
ya.gah
“to suffer”
Definition
to grieve
a primitive root;
- to afflict, grieve, suffer, cause grief 1a) (Niphal) grieved, grieving (participle) 1b) (Piel) to grieve 1c) (Hiphil) to cause grief, cause sorrow
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
יָגָה appears 8 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors,who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’so that you made your back like the ground,like a street to be traversed.”
“How long will you torment meand crush me with your words?
The roads to Zion mourn,because no one comes to her appointed feasts.All her gates are deserted;her priests groan,her maidens grieve,and she herself is bitter with anguish.
Her foes have become her masters;her enemies are at ease.For the LORD has brought her griefbecause of her many transgressions.Her children have gone awayas captives before the enemy.
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by?Look around and see!Is there any sorrow like mine,which was inflicted on me,which the LORD made me sufferon the day of His fierce anger?
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