KJV dictionary & concordance
Filled with, expressing, or causing grief, sadness, heaviness, pain, regret, distress, or anguish.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Samuel 1:15
Complete exact-word concordance
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.
And Hannah answered, and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowfull spirit: I haue drunke neither wine nor strong drinke, but haue powred out my soule before the LORD.
1611 marginal noteHebr. hard of spirit.
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
The things that my soule refused to touch, are as my sorrowfull meat.
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
But I am poore, and sorowfull: let thy saluation (O God) set me vp on high.
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Euen in laughter the heart is sorrowfull; and the end of that mirth is heauinesse.
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
For I haue satiated the wearie soule, and I haue replenished euery sorowfull soule.
I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
I will gather them that are sorrowfull for the solemne assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproch of it was a burden.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the burden vpon it was reproch.
Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
Ashkelon shall see it, and feare, Gaza also shall see it and be very sorrowfull, and Ekron: for her expectation shalbe ashamed, and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shal not be inhabited.
But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowfull: for he had great possessions.
And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
And they were exceeding sorowfull, and began euery one of them to say vnto him, Lord, Is it I?
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
And hee tooke with him Peter, and the two sonnes of Zebedee, and beganne to be sorrowful, and very heauie.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Full of or affected with sorrow; sad; causing or expressive of grief.
