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# עֹצֶב

Biblical Hebrew

**pain** — used 3 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/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b9_5e6_5b6_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹ֫צֶב: pain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b9_5e6_5b6_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] pain;—ע׳ 1 Ch 4:9 (cf. travail); דֶּרֶךְ־ע׳ ψ 139:24 hurtful way (of any wicked habit; \> 𝔗 Thes way of idolatry; ii. עֹצֶב); sf. עָצְבְּךָ Is 14:3 of the pain of exile.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pain (2); of an idol (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 139:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.24/#tree)

וּרְאֵ֗ה אִם־דֶּֽרֶךְ־עֹ֥צֶב בִּ֑י וּ֝נְחֵ֗נִי בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ עוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and see if a.way of.an.idol \[is\].in me and lead me in.\[the\] way of.antiquity

*JPS 1917:* And see if there be any way in me that is grievous, and lead me in the way everlasting.

[1 Chronicles 4:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.9/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י יַעְבֵּ֔ץ נִכְבָּ֖ד מֵאֶחָ֑יו וְאִמּ֗וֹ קָרְאָ֨ה שְׁמ֤וֹ יַעְבֵּץ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר כִּ֥י יָלַ֖דְתִּי בְּעֹֽצֶב׃

*Word for word:* and he.was Jabez honored more than his.brothers and mother his she.had.called name his Jabez (cmp) (dm) I.gave.birth in pain

*JPS 1917:* And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying: 'Because I bore him with pain.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b9_5e6_5b6_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b9_5e6_5b6_5d1/): 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).