STRONGS NUMBER H3510


Word Summary
kaab: to be in pain
Original Word: כָּאַב
Transliteration: kaab
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-ab')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be in pain
Meaning: to feel pain, to grieve, to spoil
Strong's Concordance
grieving, mar, have pain, make sad sore, be sorrowful

A primitive root; properly, to feel pain; by implication, to grieve; figuratively, to spoil -- grieving, mar, have pain, make sad (sore), (be) sorrowful.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3510. kaab

כָּאַבverb be in pain (Aramaic כְּאֵב‎, id.; Arabic be sorrowful, sad; Assyrian in derivatives, ikkibu, pain ZimBP 67, kêbtu, ruin Hpt in KAT2Glossary i.) —

Qal Imperfect יִכְאָבֿProverbs 14:13; יִכְאָ֑בJob 14:22; Participle כּוֺאֵבPsalm 69:30; כֹּאֲבִיםGenesis 34:25; —

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

2 of mental pain Proverbs 14:13 (subject לֵב‎; probably also Psalm 69:30 ("" עָנִי‎).

Hiph`il Perfect1singular suffix הִכְאַבְתִּיוEzekiel 13:22; 2feminine plural הִכְאַבְתֶּן13:22 ᵑ7 ᵐ5‎ Co (הַכְאוֺת ᵑ0‎ see כָּאָה‎); Imperfect יַכְאִיבJob 5:18; תַּכְאִ֫בוּ2 Kings 3:19; Participle מַכְאִבEzekiel 28:24; — pain, mar;

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

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

3 (si vera lectio) of marring good land with stones 2 Kings 3:19, ᵐ5άχρειώσετε (Klo תְּאַבְּדוּ‎).