Hebrew verb · H6087
עָצַב
atsabaw-tsab'
to hurt; to shape
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâtsab
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6087is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6087
properly, to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion; hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger
The King James renders it: displease, grieve, hurt, make, be sorry, vex, worship, wrest.
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
atsab is rendered "to hurt; to shape". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to hurt".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 6:6And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Genesis 6:6וַיִּתְעַצֵּ֖ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to hurt, and to shape.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to hurtStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 6:6And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. |
| to shapeStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- you be grieved3
- and grieved of1
- and he was pained1
- and they grieved1
- and they were indignant1
- he had rebuked him1
- he is grieved1
- he should be grieved1
- he was grieved1
- he will be hurt1
- they formed me1
- they grieved him1
and 3 more, 17 uses in all
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 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 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
- וַיִּתְעַצֵּ֖ב1
- וַיִּֽתְעַצְּבוּ֙1
- וְעִצְּב֖וּ1
- וַעֲצ֥וּבַת1
- יֵֽעָצֵ֑ב1
- יֵעָצֵ֖ב1
- יְעַצֵּ֑בוּ1
- יַ֝עֲצִיב֗וּהוּ1
- לְהַ֣עֲצִבָ֔ה1
- נֶעְצַב֙1
- נֶעֱצַ֥ב1
- עֲצָב֨וֹ1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine plural3HVNj2mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNi3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HC/Vpp3cp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Vqsfsc
- Hc/Vtw3mp1Hc/Vtw3mp
- Hc/Vtw3ms1Hc/Vtw3ms
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HR/Vhcc/Sp3fs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhi3mp/Sp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVpi3mp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpp3cp/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVqcc/Sp1bs
Genesis
three uses
And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
- וַיִּתְעַצֵּ֖בvaiyitatzevHc/Vtw3mstagged: and he was pained
When Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.
- וַיִּֽתְעַצְּבוּ֙vaiyitatzevuHc/Vtw3mptagged: and they were indignant
And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
- תֵּעָ֣צְב֗וּteatzevuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you be grieved
1 Samuel
two uses
But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
- יֵֽעָצֵ֑בyeatzevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he should be grieved
Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.
- נֶעְצַב֙ne'tzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was grieved
2 Samuel
one use
And that day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the people, because on that day they were told, “The king is grieving over his son.”
- נֶעֱצַ֥בneetzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is grieved
1 Kings
one use
(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)
- עֲצָב֨וֹatzavoverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had rebuked him
1 Chronicles
one use
And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.
- עָצְבִּ֑יʾatzebiverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to hurt me
Nehemiah
two uses
Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
- תֵּ֣עָצֵ֔בוּteatzevuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you be grieved
And the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be still, since today is holy. Do not grieve.”
- תֵּעָצֵֽבוּ׃teatzevuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you be grieved
Job
one use
Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
- עִ֭צְּבוּנִיʾitzevuniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they formed me
Psalms
two uses
All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
- יְעַצֵּ֑בוּyeatzevuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they twist
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
- יַ֝עֲצִיב֗וּהוּyaatzivuhuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they grieved him
Ecclesiastes
one use
The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself.
- יֵעָצֵ֖בyeatzevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be hurt
Isaiah
two uses
For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
- וַעֲצ֥וּבַתvaatzuvatconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and grieved of
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
- וְעִצְּב֖וּveitzevuconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: and they grieved
Jeremiah
one use
“Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
- לְהַ֣עֲצִבָ֔הlehaatzivahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to form image her
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.