כָּאַב
kāʾab
be in pain
Strong's H3510VerbHebrewTWOT 940

כָּאַב (kāʾab) is a Hebrew verb meaning be in pain. It appears 8 times in 6 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3510).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 940)

Range of meaning (TWOT 940)be in pain; mental pain; pain, mar; feel pain, grieve, spoil; grieving, have pain, make sad, sorrowful
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

כָּאַב verb: be in pain

Strong's H3510 כָּאַב: properly, to feel pain; by implication, to grieve; figuratively, to spoil
KJV:grieving, mar, have pain, make sad (sore), (be) sorrowful.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Genesis 34:252 Kings 3:19Job 5:18

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