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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4341

מַכְאֹב

makobmak-obe'

pain

16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: makʼôb

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4341is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 16
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4341

anguish or (figuratively) affliction

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

makob is rendered "pain". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 3:7The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
  • The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.

The first use

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

Exodus 3:7מַכְאֹבָֽיו׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in eight of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 31 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • pains3
  • pain2
  • pain my2
  • and own pain his1
  • and pain my1
  • and pains our1
  • for pain its1
  • like pain my1
  • pain of1
  • pain your1
  • pains its1
  • with 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.

מַכְבֵּרmakbergrateUses6
מַכְמָרmakmarnetUses2
מַכְתֵּשׁmakteshhollowUses2
מַכְשֵׁלָהmakshelahruinsUses2
מַכְבָּרmakbarclothUses1
מַכְבִּירmakbirto increaseUses1

All 16, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

16 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

  • בְּ֭מַכְאוֹב1
  • וּמַכְאֹב֔וֹ1
  • וּמַכְאֹבֵ֖ינוּ1
  • וּמַכְאוֹבִ֖י1
  • כְּמַכְאֹבִ֔י1
  • לְמַכְאוֹבָ֔הּ1
  • מַכְאֹב֖וֹת1
  • מַכְאֹבִ֑י1
  • מַכְאֹבִ֔י1
  • מַכְאֹבָֽיו׃1
  • מַכְאֹבִ֗ים1
  • מַכְאֹבֵ֑ךְ1

and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
  • noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HNcmsc/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HC/Ncmpc/Sp1bp
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp2fs
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp1bs

Exodus

one use
  • The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

    Exodus 3:7

    • מַכְאֹבָֽיו׃makhovavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: pains its

2 Chronicles

one use
  • then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

    2 Chronicles 6:29

    • וּמַכְאֹב֔וֹumakhovoconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and own pain his

Job

one use
  • A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

    Job 33:19

    • בְּ֭מַכְאוֹבbemakhovpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with pain

Psalms

three uses
  • Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.

    Psalms 32:10

    • מַכְאוֹבִ֗יםmakhovimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: pains
  • For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

    Psalms 38:17

    • וּמַכְאוֹבִ֖יumakhoviconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and pain my
  • For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.

    Psalms 69:26

    • מַכְא֖וֹבmakhovnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pain of

Ecclesiastes

two uses
  • For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.

    Ecclesiastes 1:18

    • מַכְאֽוֹב׃makhovnoun · masculine singulartagged: pain
  • Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.

    Ecclesiastes 2:23

    • מַכְאֹבִ֗יםmakhovimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: pains

Isaiah

two uses
  • He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

    Isaiah 53:3

    • מַכְאֹב֖וֹתmakhovotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: pains
  • Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.

    Isaiah 53:4

    • וּמַכְאֹבֵ֖ינוּumakhoveinuconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and pains our

Jeremiah

three uses
  • Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

    Jeremiah 30:15

    • מַכְאֹבֵ֑ךְmakhovekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: pain your
  • You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”

    Jeremiah 45:3

    • מַכְאֹבִ֑יmakhovinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: pain my
  • Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.

    Jeremiah 51:8

    • לְמַכְאוֹבָ֔הּlemakhovahpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: for pain its

Lamentations

three uses
  • 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 suffer on the day of His fierce anger?

    Lamentations 1:12

    • מַכְאוֹב֙makhovnoun · masculine singulartagged: pain
    • כְּמַכְאֹבִ֔יkemakhovipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: like pain my
  • The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

    Lamentations 1:18

    • מַכְאֹבִ֔יmakhovinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: pain my

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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