Strong's Hebrew · H109

H109 ʼâdab

אָדַב

aw-dab'

to grieve

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ʼâdab appears once in Scripture, in 1 Samuel 2:33. In the Doxa app, open that verse, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

to languish

In the King James Version

grieve.

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 1 time in Scripture

1 Samuel 2:33

“And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and your heart to grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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