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sigh

Meaning of “sigh”

To utter a deep breath expressing grief, weariness, or longing.

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7 occurrences6 verses3 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Isaiah 24:7

Complete exact-word concordance

Every verse containing “sigh”

KJV PCE
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 24:7 · retained source text

The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merrie hearted doe sigh.

Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Lamentations 1:4 · retained source text

The wayes of Zion do mourne, because none come to the solemne feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitternesse.

Lamentations 1:11
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Lamentations 1:11 · retained source text

All her people sigh, they seek bread, they haue giuen their pleasant things for meate to relieue the soule: see, O LORD, & consider: for I am become vile.

1611 marginal noteOr, to make the soule to come againe.

Lamentations 1:21
They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Lamentations 1:21 · retained source text

They haue heard that I sigh, there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like vnto me.

1611 marginal noteOr, proclaimed.

Ezekiel 9:4
And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 9:4 · retained source text

And the LORD sayd vnto him, Goe through the middest of the citie, through the middest of Ierusalem, and set a marke vpon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and that cry for all the abominations, that bee done in the middest thereof.

1611 marginal noteHeb. marke a marke.

1611 marginal noteExod.12.7. reuel.7.3.

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