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# עָגַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5701

**be grieved** — 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

be grieved [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5701/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָגַם: vb. be grieved [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5701/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be grieved (NH id.; Aramaic עֲגַם, and ܥܓܡ (in Lexx.) id.; cf. perhaps also Assyrian agâmu, be vexed DlHWB 16 (rare; cited under אגם));— Pf. 3 fs. אִם־לֹא … עָֽגְמָה נַפְשִׁי לָאֶבְיוֹן Jb 30:25 was not my soul grieved for the poor? (‖ בָּכִיתִי).

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: was it grieved? (1).

## In the verses

[Job 30:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.25/#tree)

אִם־לֹ֣א בָ֭כִיתִי לִקְשֵׁה־י֑וֹם עָֽגְמָ֥ה נַ֝פְשִׁ֗י לָאֶבְיֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* (if)? not did.I.weep for.\[the\] hard of.day was.it.grieved? self my for the.needy \[person\]

*JPS 1917:* If I have not wept for him that was in trouble, and if my soul grieved not for the needy.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5701.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5701/): 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).