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The term "grievous" in the Bible is often used to describe something that is severe, burdensome, or causing great sorrow. It is a word that conveys a sense of weightiness and seriousness, often associated with sin, suffering, or divine judgment. The concept of grievousness is woven throughout Scripture, highlighting the profound impact of sin and the deep sorrow it can bring to individuals and communities.

Old Testament Usage

In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word often translated as "grievous" is "כָּבֵד" (kaved), which can mean heavy, burdensome, or severe. This term is used in various contexts, including the description of sin and its consequences. For example, in Genesis 18:20, the Lord says, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is exceedingly grievous." Here, the grievousness of sin is linked to the impending judgment on these cities.

The Psalms frequently express the grievous nature of suffering and affliction. In Psalm 31:9-10, David cries out, "Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well. For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away." This passage illustrates the deep emotional and physical toll of grievous circumstances.

New Testament Usage

In the New Testament, the Greek word "βαρύς" (barus) is often used to convey the idea of something grievous or burdensome. Jesus uses this term in Matthew 23:4 when criticizing the Pharisees: "They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them." Here, the grievousness is associated with the legalistic burdens imposed by religious leaders.

The Apostle Paul also addresses the concept of grievousness in the context of discipline and suffering. In Hebrews 12:11, he writes, "No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but grievous. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it." This passage highlights the temporary nature of grievous experiences and their potential to produce positive spiritual outcomes.

Theological Implications

Theologically, the concept of grievousness underscores the seriousness of sin and its consequences. Sin is not merely a minor infraction but a grievous offense against a holy God, warranting divine judgment. The grievous nature of sin is evident in the sacrificial system of the Old Testament, which foreshadows the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ. His atoning death on the cross addresses the grievousness of sin, offering redemption and reconciliation to those who believe.

Moreover, the Bible acknowledges that life in a fallen world involves grievous trials and sufferings. Believers are encouraged to endure these hardships with faith, trusting in God's sovereign purposes. As James 1:2-4 exhorts, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."

Practical Application

Understanding the concept of grievousness in Scripture calls believers to a sober recognition of sin's impact and the reality of suffering. It encourages a response of repentance, faith, and perseverance. Christians are called to bear one another's burdens (Galatians 6:2) and to find comfort in the promises of God, who is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit (Psalm 34:18).

In summary, the biblical concept of grievousness serves as a reminder of the weight of sin and the hope of redemption through Christ. It calls believers to live with an awareness of the spiritual realities that underlie the challenges and sorrows of life, trusting in God's ultimate plan for restoration and peace.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; as, a grievous error in judgment.

2. (a.) Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.

3. (a.) Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

GRIEVOUS; GRIEVOUSLY; GREIEVOUSNESS

grev'-us; grev'-us-li; grev'-us-nes: In addition to several of the words mentioned under GRIEF (which see), we have kabhedh ("heavy") 8 t, e.g. Genesis 12:10, "The famine was grievous in the land," the Revised Version (British and American) "sore"; marats ("powerful"), "a grievous curse" (1 Kings 2:8); cur, "to turn aside" (Jeremiah 6:28), "grievous revolters"; qasheh, "to make sharp" (1 Kings 12:4 2 Chronicles 10:4); tachalu'im (Jeremiah 16:4), "They shall die grievous deaths," the Revised Version, margin "deaths of sicknesses"; `athaq (Psalm 31:18), "which speak grievous things proudly," the Revised Version (British and American) "against the righteous insolently"; cheT, "sin" (Lamentations 1:8), "Jerus hath grievously sinned" (literally, "hath sinned a sin"); ma`al, "trespass" (Ezekiel 14:13), "trespassing grievously" (literally, "trespassing a trespass") the Revised Version (British and American) "committing a trespass"; kobhedh, "weight" (Isaiah 21:15), "grievousness"; barus, "heavy," "grievous wolves" (Acts 20:29), "grievous charges" (Acts 25:7), "His commandments are not grievous" (1 John 5:3); okneros, the Revised Version (British and American) "irksome" (Philippians 3:1); poneros, "evil" (Revelation 16:2), "a grievous sore"; dusbastaktos, "grievous to be borne" (Matthew 23:4 Luke 11:46); deinos, "greatly," "grievously tormented" (Matthew 8:6); kakos, "badly," "grievously vexed" (Matthew 15:22).

W. L. Walker

Greek

926. barus -- heavy
... Cognate: 926 -- (an adjective, also used substantively) -- properly, heavy (weighty);
(figuratively) what is grievous (burdensome), on a person with oppressive ...
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4190. poneros -- toilsome, bad
... 6), wicked man (1), wicked things (1), worthless (1). evil, grievous. From
a derivative of ponos; hurtful, ie Evil (properly, in ...
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1419. dusbastaktos -- hard to be borne, oppressive
... grievous, hard to bear. From dus- and a derivative of bastazo; oppressive --
grievous to be borne. see GREEK dus-. see GREEK bastazo. ...
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1418. dus- -- like un- or mis- (as in unrest, misjudge), nullifies ...
... hard, grievous. A primary inseparable particle of uncertain derivation; used
only in composition as a prefix; hard, ie With difficulty ...
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2560. kakos -- badly
... evilly, wrongly. Cognate: 2560 (the adverbial form of 2556 ) -- related
to experiencing grievous harm (affliction). Word Origin ...
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3077. lupe -- pain of body or mind, grief, sorrow
... grief, pain, sorrow. Apparently a primary word; sadness -- grief, grievous, +
grudgingly, heaviness, sorrow. (lupas) -- 1 Occurrence. (lupe) -- 7 Occurrences. ...
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3636. okneros -- shrinking, timid, hence idle, lazy, troublesome
... lazy, slothful. From okneo; tardy, ie Indolent; (figuratively) irksome -- grievous,
slothful. see GREEK okneo. (oknere) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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894. apsinthos -- wormwood
... Definition: wormwood. 894 -- a bitter plant known as ""; (figuratively) what
is (grievous), bringing on (used only in Rev 8:11). Word ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3515. kabed -- heavy
... Word Origin from kabad Definition heavy NASB Word Usage burdensome (1), difficult
(2), great (4), grievous (1), heavier (1), heavy (11), huge (1), large (4 ...
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7186. qasheh -- hard, severe
... stubbornness* (1). churlish, cruel, grievous, hardhearted, thing, heavy, impudent,
obstinate,. From qashah; severe (in various applications ...
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4834. marats -- to be sick
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to be sick NASB Word Usage painful (2), plagues
(1), violent (1). embolden, be forcible, grievous, sore. ...
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7185. qashah -- to be hard, severe or fierce
... be cruel, be fiercer, make grievous, be in, have, seem, harden, labor, be
sore,. A primitive root; properly, to be dense, ie Tough ...
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2470. chalah -- to be weak or sick
... law') Short Definition: beseech. beseech, be diseased, put to grief, be
grieved, be grievous, infirmity A primitive root (compare ...
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6277. athaq -- forward, arrogant
... arrogancy, grievous hard things, stiff. From athaq in the sense of license; impudent --
arrogancy, grievous (hard) things, stiff. see HEBREW athaq. 6276, 6277 ...
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816. asham -- to offend, be guilty
... guilty (1), condemned (2), desolate (1), did wrong (1), found guilty (1), go (1),
guilty (9), held guilty (3), hold them guilty (1), incurred grievous guilt (1 ...
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2470a. chalah -- to be weak or sick
... 4), became...ill (3), become ill (1), become weak (3), been sick (2), diseased
(2), faint (1), fell sick (1), grief (1), grieved (1), grievous (2), incurable ( ...
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7451a. ra -- bad, evil
... 1), distressing (1), evil (124), evil man (3), evil men (4), evil things (4), evildoer
(1), evildoers* (1), evils (1), great (1), grievous (4), harm* (1 ...
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8464. tachmas -- male ostrich
... Definition: owl. Word Origin from chamas Definition male ostrich NASB Word Usage
owl (2). disease, grievous, that are sickness. From chamac ...
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Library

Whether Disobedience is the Most Grievous of Sins?
... OF DISOBEDIENCE (TWO ARTICLES) Whether disobedience is the most grievous of sins?
Objection 1: It seems that disobedience is the most grievous of sins. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether disobedience is the most.htm

Whether Fornication is the Most Grievous of Sins?
... OF THE PARTS OF LUST (TWELVE ARTICLES) Whether fornication is the most grievous
of sins? Objection 1: It would seem that fornication ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether fornication is the most.htm

Whether Quarreling is a More Grievous Sin than Flattery?
... OF QUARRELING (TWO ARTICLES) Whether quarreling is a more grievous sin than flattery? ...
For the more harm a sin does the more grievous it seems to be. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether quarreling is a more.htm

Whether Anger is the Most Grievous Sin?
... OF ANGER (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether anger is the most grievous sin? Objection 1: It
would seem that anger is the most grievous sin. For Chrysostom says [*Hom. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether anger is the most.htm

Whether Pride is the Most Grievous of Sins?
... OF PRIDE (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether pride is the most grievous of sins? Objection
1: It would seem that pride is not the most grievous of sins. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether pride is the most.htm

Whether it is More Grievous to Sin through Certain Malice than ...
... OF THAT CAUSE OF SIN WHICH IS MALICE (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether it is more grievous
to sin through certain malice than through passion? ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is more grievous.htm

Whether Irony is a Less Grievous Sin than Boasting?
... be given the signification of the Greek {eironia}, whence it is derived: dissimulation
of one's own good points.] Whether irony is a less grievous sin than ...
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Whether a Sin of Omission is More Grievous than a Sin of ...
... OF THE QUASI-INTEGRAL PARTS OF JUSTICE (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether a sin of omission
is more grievous than a sin of transgression? Objection ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether a sin of omission.htm

Whether Theft is a More Grievous Sin than Robbery?
... OF THEFT AND ROBBERY (NINE ARTICLES) Whether theft is a more grievous sin
than robbery? Objection 1: It would seem that theft is ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether theft is a more.htm

Whether Prodigality is a More Grievous Sin than Covetousness?
... OF PRODIGALITY (THREE ARTICLES) Whether prodigality is a more grievous sin
than covetousness? Objection 1: It seems that prodigality ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether prodigality is a more.htm

Thesaurus

Grievous (73 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; as,
a grievous error in judgment. ...GRIEVOUS; GRIEVOUSLY; GREIEVOUSNESS. ...
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Greievousness
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia GRIEVOUS; GRIEVOUSLY; GREIEVOUSNESS.
grev'-us; grev'-us-li; grev'-us-nes: In addition to several ...
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Grievously (17 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia GRIEVOUS; GRIEVOUSLY; GREIEVOUSNESS.
grev'-us; grev'-us-li; grev'-us-nes: In addition to several ...
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Lighter (10 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:4 "Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous
service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter ...
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Lighten (19 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous; and now lighten thou the grievous
servitude of thy father and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will ...
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Servitude (21 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous; and now lighten thou the grievous
servitude of thy father and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will ...
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Heavy (110 Occurrences)
... 3. (superl.) Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish;
hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings ...
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Wound (58 Occurrences)
... my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it. ... Micah
6:13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. ...
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Noisome (7 Occurrences)
... Version (British and American) "cockle," as in the King James Version margin; of
kakos, "evil," "bad" (Revelation 16:2), "a noisome and grievous sore." "Noisome ...
/n/noisome.htm - 9k

Occupation (9 Occurrences)
... Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning
all that is done under the heavens: this grievous occupation hath God ...
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Resources

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Grievous (73 Occurrences)

Matthew 23:4
For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT)

Luke 11:46
And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
(KJV ASV WBS YLT)

Acts 20:29
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Acts 25:7
When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

2 Corinthians 12:10
In fact I take pleasure in infirmities, in the bearing of insults, in distress, in persecutions, in grievous difficulties--for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
(WEY)

Philippians 3:1
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
(KJV WBS)

2 Timothy 3:1
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
(WEB WEY ASV)

Hebrews 12:11
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Revelation 16:2
And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Genesis 12:10
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Genesis 18:20
Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NIV)

Genesis 21:11
The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Genesis 21:12
God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Genesis 41:31
and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Genesis 41:56
And the famine was on all the earth. And Joseph opened every place in which there was provision, and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine was grievous in the land of Egypt.
(DBY)

Genesis 41:57
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was grievous on the whole earth.
(DBY)

Genesis 43:1
And the famine was grievous in the land.
(DBY)

Genesis 47:4
And they said to Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for the sheep that thy servants have, for the famine is grievous in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
(DBY YLT)

Genesis 47:13
And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very grievous; and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted through the famine.
(DBY YLT)

Genesis 50:10
And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan; and there they lamented with a great and very grievous lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father of seven days.
(DBY YLT)

Genesis 50:11
When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 8:24
Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Exodus 9:3
behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Exodus 9:18
Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. Leviticus
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Exodus 9:24
So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Exodus 10:14
The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Deuteronomy 6:22
and Jehovah shewed signs and wonders, great and grievous, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes;
(DBY RSV)

Deuteronomy 28:35
Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
(See RSV)

Deuteronomy 28:59
then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
(See RSV)

Judges 20:34
And they come in over against Gibeah -- ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel -- and the battle 'is' grievous, and they have not known that the evil is striking against them.
(YLT)

1 Kings 2:8
"Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying,'I will not put you to death with the sword.'
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

1 Kings 12:4
"Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

1 Kings 18:2
And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a grievous famine in Samaria.
(WBS)

2 Chronicles 10:4
Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Job 2:7
And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah; and he smote Job with a grievous botch from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
(DBY)

Job 16:2
I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
(DBY)

Psalms 10:5
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
(KJV WBS)

Psalms 31:18
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
(KJV WBS)

Psalms 73:16
When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;
(DBY)

Psalms 139:24
And see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.
(DBY JPS YLT)

Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Proverbs 15:10
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey: So 'for men' to search out their own glory is grievous.
(ASV)

Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: this grievous occupation hath God given to the children of men to weary themselves therewith.
(DBY WBS NAS)

Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
(See NAS)

Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one alone and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and he saith not, For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.
(DBY JPS WBS NAS)

Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 5:16
This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
(WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 6:2
A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
(See NIV)

Ecclesiastes 10:13
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
(See JPS)

Isaiah 9:1
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
(Root in KJV JPS WBS)

Isaiah 10:11
Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?
(YLT)

Isaiah 15:4
And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media's sighing.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Isaiah 30:27
Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger a grievous conflagration; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a consuming fire;
(DBY)

Jeremiah 6:28
They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Jeremiah 10:19
Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)

Jeremiah 14:17
You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 16:4
They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Jeremiah 23:19
Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
(KJV WBS)

Jeremiah 30:12
For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Jeremiah 50:2
Declare ye among nations, and sound, And lift up an ensign, sound, do not hide, Say ye: Captured hath been Babylon, Put to shame hath been Bel, Broken hath been Merodach, Put to shame have been her grievous things, Broken have been her idols.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 21:10
It is sharpened to make a grievous slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
(WBS)

Ezekiel 25:12
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself on them;
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Hosea 11:6
Grievous hath been the sword in his cities, And it hath ended his bars, and consumed -- from their own counsels.
(YLT)

Jonah 4:1
And it is grievous unto Jonah -- a great evil -- and he is displeased at it;
(YLT)

Micah 2:4
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a grievous lamentation, and say, We are utterly wasted: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
(WBS)

Micah 2:10
Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
(WEB ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Micah 6:13
Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
(WEB JPS ASV)

Nahum 3:19
There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

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Grievous

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