Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3511
כְּאֵב
keebkeh-abe'
pain
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kᵉʼêb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3511is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3511
suffering (physical or mental), adversity
The King James renders it: grief, pain, sorrow.
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
keeb is rendered "pain". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 2:13Then 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.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
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.
Job 2:13הַכְּאֵ֖ב
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
- pain my2
- and pain1
- and pain my1
- from pain of1
- the pain1
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.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- הַכְּאֵ֖ב1
- וּכְאֵ֥ב1
- וּכְאֵבִ֥י1
- כְאֵבִי֙1
- כְּאֵבִ֑י1
- מִכְּאֵ֣ב1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HNcmsc/Sp1bs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp1bs
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Job
two uses
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.
- הַכְּאֵ֖בhakeevthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pain
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
- כְּאֵבִ֑יkeevinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: pain my
Psalms
one use
I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
- וּכְאֵבִ֥יukheeviconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and pain my
Isaiah
two uses
though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
- וּכְאֵ֥בukheevconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and pain
My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.
- מִכְּאֵ֣בmikeevpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from pain of
Jeremiah
one use
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.
- כְאֵבִי֙kheevinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: pain my
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.