Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6090
עֹצֶב
otsebo'-tseb
pain; idol
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻôtseb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6090is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6090
an idol (as fashioned); also pain (bodily or mental)
The King James renders it: idol, sorrow, [idiom] wicked.
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
otseb is rendered "pain; idol". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "pain".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Chronicles 4:9Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
1 Chronicles 4:9בְּעֹֽצֶב׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: pain, and idol.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| painStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where1 Chronicles 4:9Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying… |
| idolStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- an idol1
- from pain your1
- idol my1
- in 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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- בְּעֹֽצֶב׃1
- מֵֽעָצְבְּךָ֖1
- עֹ֥צֶב1
- עָצְבִּ֣י1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp1bs
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms
1 Chronicles
one use
Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
- בְּעֹֽצֶב׃beotzevpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in pain
Psalms
one use
See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
- עֹ֥צֶבʾotzevnoun · masculine singulartagged: an idol
Isaiah
two uses
On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,
- מֵֽעָצְבְּךָ֖meatzebekhapreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: from pain your
Therefore I declared it to you long ago; I announced it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.’
- עָצְבִּ֣יʾatzebinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: idol 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.
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.