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# יָגוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3015

**grief** — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

grief [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3015/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָגוֹן: grief, sorrow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3015/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] grief, sorrow;—abs. יָגוֹן Gn 42:38 + 12 times; sf. (מִ)יגוֹנָם Je 31:13;—sorrow, Gn 42:38; 44:31 (J), ψ 13:3 Je 8:18; ‖ אֲנָחָה ψ 31:11 Is 35:10; 51:11; cf. ψ 107:39 (‖ עֹצֶר, רָעָה), 116:3 (‖ צָרָה), Je 20:18 (‖ עָמָל), 31:13 (‖ אֵבֶל, opp. שִׂמַּחְתִּים), 45:3 (‖ מַכְאֹבִי), Ez 23:33 (‖ שִׁכָּרוֹן, but Co.; שׁברון with Codd.; cf. 21:11); Est 9:22 (opp. שִׂמְחָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sorrow (14).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.39/#tree)

וַיִּמְעֲט֥וּ וַיָּשֹׁ֑חוּ מֵעֹ֖צֶר רָעָ֣ה וְיָגֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and they.became.few and they.were.bowed.down from.\[the\] oppression of.calamity and sorrow

*JPS 1917:* Again, they are minished and dwindle away through oppression of evil and sorrow.

[Jeremiah 8:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.18/#tree)

מַבְלִ֥יגִיתִ֖י עֲלֵ֣י יָג֑וֹן עָלַ֖י לִבִּ֥י דַוָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* cheerfulness my on sorrow on me heart my \[is\].faint

*JPS 1917:* Though I would take comfort against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3015.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3015/): 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).