Strong's Hebrew · H6087
H6087 ʻâtsab
עָצַב
aw-tsab'
to hurt
ʻâtsab appears 17 times in Scripture, including Genesis 6:6 and 1 Samuel 20:3. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion; hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger
In the King James Version
displease, grieve, hurt, make, be sorry, vex, worship, wrest.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 17 times in Scripture
““Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?””
“But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.””
“When Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.”
“Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.”
“The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself.”
“And that day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the people, because on that day they were told, “The king is grieving over his son.””
“And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.”
“And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.”
“(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)”
“And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.”
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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).
