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sorrow

Meaning of “sorrow”

Sense 1: Grief, sadness, anguish, pain, regret, distress, trouble, or heaviness. Sense 2: To grieve or cause such pain.

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70 occurrences65 verses23 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 3:16

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Psalms 13:2
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 13:2 · retained source text

How long shall I take counsel in my soule, hauing sorrow in my heart dayly? how long shall mine enemie be exalted ouer me?

Psalms 38:17
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 38:17 · retained source text

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

1611 marginal noteHeb. for haulting.

Psalms 39:2
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 39:2 · retained source text

I was dumbe with silence, I held my peace, euen from good, and my sorrow was stirred.

1611 marginal noteHeb. troubled.

Psalms 55:10
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 55:10 · retained source text

Day and night they goe about it vpon the walles thereof: mischiefe also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 90:10 · retained source text

The dayes of our yeres are threescore yeeres and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourescore yeeres, yet is their strength labour and sorrow: for it is soone cut off, and we flie away.

1611 marginal noteHebr. as for the dayes of our yeeres, in them are seuentie yeeres.

Psalms 107:39
Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 107:39 · retained source text

Againe, they are minished and brought lowe through oppression, affliction and sorrow.

Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 116:3 · retained source text

The sorrowes of death compassed me, and the paines of hell gate hold vpon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

1611 marginal noteHebr. found me.

1611 marginal notePsal.18.5.6.

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