Hebrew verb · H3510
כָּאַב
kaabkaw-ab'
to pain
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâʼab
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3510is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3510
properly, to feel pain; by implication, to grieve; figuratively, to spoil
The King James renders it: grieving, mar, have pain, make sad (sore), (be) sorrowful.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kaab is rendered "to pain". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 34:25Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
Genesis 34:25כֹּֽאֲבִ֗ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it is in pain2
- and in pain1
- causes pain1
- he causes pain1
- I caused pain him1
- in pain1
- you will spoil1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כָּאָה | kaah | be disheartened | Uses4 |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הִכְאַבְתִּ֑יו1
- וְכוֹאֵ֑ב1
- יִכְאָ֑ב1
- יִכְאַב־1
- יַכְאִ֣יב1
- כֹּֽאֲבִ֗ים1
- מַכְאִ֔ב1
- תַּכְאִ֖בוּ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vqrmsa
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVhi2mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhi3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhp1cs/Sp3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HVhrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HVqrmpa
Genesis
one use
Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
- כֹּֽאֲבִ֗יםkoavimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: in pain
2 Kings
one use
And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”
- תַּכְאִ֖בוּtakhivuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will spoil
Job
two uses
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- יַכְאִ֣יבyakhivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he causes pain
He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”
- יִכְאָ֑בyikhavverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is in pain
Psalms
one use
But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.
- וְכוֹאֵ֑בvekhoevconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and in pain
Proverbs
one use
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
- יִכְאַב־yikhav-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is in pain
Ezekiel
two uses
Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,
- הִכְאַבְתִּ֑יוhikhavtivverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I caused pain him
For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’
- מַכְאִ֔בmakhivverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: causes pain
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.