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# תּוּגָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8424

**grief** — used 4 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/1514/8424/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תּוּגָה: n.f. grief [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8424/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. grief (poet.)—abs. ת׳ ψ 119:28 Pr 14:13; 17:21; cstr. תּוּגַת 10:1;—grief ψ 119:28; Pr 10:1 (opp. יְשַׂמַּח), 14:13 (opp. שִׂמְחָה), 17:21 (‖ לֹא יִשְׂמַח).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: grief (2); \[is\] the grief (1); \[may be\] grief (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.28/#tree)

דָּלְפָ֣ה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִתּוּגָ֑ה קַ֝יְּמֵ֗נִי כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* it.weeps self my from grief strengthen me according to your.word

*JPS 1917:* My soul melteth away for heaviness; sustain me according unto Thy word.

[Proverbs 14:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.13/#tree)

גַּם־בִּשְׂח֥וֹק יִכְאַב־לֵ֑ב וְאַחֲרִיתָ֖הּשִׂמְחָ֣ה תוּגָֽה׃

*Word for word:* also in laughter it.is.in.pain a.heart and end its joy \[may.be\].grief

*JPS 1917:* Even in laughter the heart acheth; and the end of mirth is heaviness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8424.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8424/): 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).