[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%9B%D7%90%D7%91-2/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [כ](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/kaf/)‎ / כְּאֵב‎

# כְּאֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3511

**pain** — used 6 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

pain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3511/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּאֵב: n.m. pain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3511/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 2:13 pain;—כ׳ abs. Jb 2:13 Is 17:11; cstr. 65:14; sf. כְּאֵבִי Jb 16:6 + 2 times;—pain, mental and physical Jb 2:13; 16:6 perhaps also ψ 39:3; כּ׳ אָנוּשׁ (in disappointment and disaster) Is 17:11 (‖ נַחֲלָה from חָלָה; mental, כּ׳־לֵב Is 65:14 (‖ שֵׁבֶר רוּחַ) so Je 15:18 (‖ מַכָּה fig.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pain (6).

## In the verses

[Psalms 39:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.3/#tree)

נֶאֱלַ֣מְתִּי ד֭וּמִיָּה הֶחֱשֵׁ֣יתִי מִטּ֑וֹב וּכְאֵבִ֥י נֶעְכָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* I.was.dumb silence I.was.silent from good and pain my it.was.stirred.up

*JPS 1917:* I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, had no comfort; and my pain was held in check.

[Job 16:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.6/#tree)

אִֽם־אֲ֭דַבְּרָה לֹא־יֵחָשֵׂ֣ךְ כְּאֵבִ֑י וְ֝אַחְדְּלָ֗ה מַה־מִנִּ֥י יַהֲלֹֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* if I.will.speak not it.will.be.restrained pain my and I.will.cease what? from me will.it.go

*JPS 1917:* Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3511.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3511/): 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).