Topic
Grievous; Grievously; Greievousness
19 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 12:10ISBE
¶ And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
- 1 Kings 2:8ISBE
And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to…
- 1 Kings 12:4ISBE
Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
- 2 Chronicles 10:4ISBE
Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
- Psalms 31:18ISBE
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
- Isaiah 21:15ISBE
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
- Jeremiah 6:28ISBE
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
- Jeremiah 16:4ISBE
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of…
- Lamentations 1:8ISBE
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
- Ezekiel 14:13ISBE
Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
- Matthew 8:6ISBE
And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
- Matthew 15:22ISBE
And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
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- Matthew 23:4 ISBE
- Luke 11:46 ISBE
- John 5:3 ISBE
- Acts 20:29 ISBE
- Acts 25:7 ISBE
- Philippians 3:1 ISBE
- Revelation 16:2 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 19 references
grev'-us; grev'-us-li; grev'-us-nes: In addition to several of the words mentioned under GRIEF (which see), we have kabhedh ("heavy") 8 t, e.g. Ge 12:10, "The famine was grievous in the land," the Revised Version (British and American) "sore"; marats ("powerful"), "a grievous curse" (1Ki 2:8); cur, "to turn aside" (Jer 6:28), "grievous revolters"; qasheh, "to make sharp" (1Ki 12:4; 2Ch 10:4); tachalu'im (Jer 16:4), "They shall die grievous deaths," the Revised Version, margin "deaths of sicknesses"; `athaq (Ps 31:18), "which speak grievous things proudly," the Revised Version (British and American) "against the righteous insolently"; cheT, "sin" (La 1:8), "Jerus hath grievously sinned" (literally, "hath sinned a sin"); ma`al, "trespass" (Eze 14:13), "trespassing grievously" (literally, "trespassing a trespass") the Revised Version (British and American) "committing a trespass"; kobhedh, "weight" (Isa 21:15), "grievousness"; barus, "heavy," "grievous wolves" (Ac 20:29), "grievous charges" (Ac 25:7), "His commandments are not grievous" (1 Joh 5:3); okneros, the Revised Version (British and American) "irksome" (Php 3:1); poneros, "evil" (Re 16:2), "a grievous sore"; dusbastaktos, "grievous to be borne" (Mt 23:4; Lu 11:46); deinos, "greatly," "grievously tormented" (Mt 8:6); kakos, "badly," "grievously vexed" (Mt 15:22).
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.