Definition

to distress; reflexively or passively, to be sad

Etymology

from G3077 (λύπη);

Where the KJV renders it

• cause grief
• grieve
• be in heaviness
• (be) sorrow(-ful)
• be (make) sorry

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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