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# מַכְאוֹב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4341

**pain** — used 16 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/1502/4341/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַכְאוֹב: n.m. pain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4341/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 32:10 pain;—מ׳ abs. Ec 1:18 + 2 times; cstr. ψ 69:27; sf. מַכְאוֹבִי (מַכְאֹבִי) ψ 38:18 + 3 times, etc.; pl. מַכְאוֹבִים ψ 32:10 Ec 2:23; מַכְאֹבוֹת Is 53:3; sf. מַכְאֹבָיו Ex 3:7; מַכְאֹבֵינוּ Is 53:4;— pain, physical, Ex 3:7 (‖ עֳנִי; cf. מִפְּנֵי נֹגְשָׂיו in context); 2 Ch 6:29 (‖ נֶגַע); Jb 33:19. of mental pain, ψ 32:10 (of troubles of wicked), of Babylon Je 51:8; ψ 38:18; 69:27 (as result of sin; of י׳’s servant); in י׳’s word to Baruch Je 45:3 (‖ יָגוֹן, אֲנָחָה), cf. of Israel in distress Je 30:15 (‖ שֵׁבֶר), of Jerus. La 1:12(×2), 18, Ec 1:18 (יוֹסִיף דַּעַת יוֹסִיף מַכ׳); 2:23 (‖ כַּעַם עִנְיָנוֹ); partic. of suffering servant of י׳ Is 53:3, 4 (both ‖ חֳלִי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pain (9); pains (3); \[are\] pains (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 38:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.18/#tree)

כִּֽי־אֲ֭נִי לְצֶ֣לַע נָכ֑וֹן וּמַכְאוֹבִ֖י נֶגְדִּ֣י תָמִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* (dm) I for stumbling \[am\].prepared and pain my \[is\].before me continually

*JPS 1917:* For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.

[Psalms 69:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.27/#tree)

כִּֽי־אַתָּ֣ה אֲשֶׁר־הִכִּ֣יתָ רָדָ֑פוּ וְאֶל־מַכְא֖וֹב חֲלָלֶ֣יךָ יְסַפֵּֽרוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you \[those\].whom you.struck they.have.harassed and concerning the.pain of your.fatally.wounded.\[ones\] they.have.recounted

*JPS 1917:* For they persecute him whom Thou hast smitten; and they tell of the pain of those whom Thou hast wounded.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4341.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4341/): 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).