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# אָדַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H109

**grieve** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

grieve [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/109/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָדַב: vb. grieve [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/109/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. grieve; inf. לַאֲדִיב (= לְהַאֲדִיב Ges§ 53.3.R 7) to cause to grieve 1 S 2:33. (But Dr prop. לְהָדִיב from דוב q.v.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cause to grieve (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 2:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.33/#tree)

וְאִ֗ישׁ לֹֽא־אַכְרִ֤ית לְךָ֙ מֵעִ֣ם מִזְבְּחִ֔י לְכַלּ֥וֹת אֶת־עֵינֶ֖יךָ וְלַאֲדִ֣יב אֶת־נַפְשֶׁ֑ךָ וְכָל־מַרְבִּ֥ית בֵּיתְךָ֖ יָמ֥וּתוּ אֲנָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and a.man not I.will.cut.off to you from with altar my to cause.to.fail (et) eyes your and to cause.to.grieve (et) self your and all the.increase your.house your they.will.die men

*JPS 1917:* Yet will I not cut off every man of thine from Mine altar, to make thine eyes to fail, and thy heart to languish; and all the increase of thy house shall die young men.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/109.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/109/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).