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Strong's G3077 λύπη (lype)

Lype means “sadness” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3077 — yehoyada (“Jehojada”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3077
Language Greek
Linked Usages 58
Books 18

Strong's G3077 Quick Answer

Strong's G3077 λύπη (lupe) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. lupe (loo'-pay) n. 1. sadness [apparently a primary word] It has 58 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include sorrow, heaviness, grudgingly, grievous, and grief. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
lupe (loo'-pay) n. 1. sadness [apparently a primary word]
Usage
58 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
sorrow, heaviness, grudgingly, grievous, and grief

Meaning and Definition

lupe (loo'-pay) n. 1. sadness [apparently a primary word] KJV: grief, grievous, + grudgingly, heaviness, sorrow

Original Word
λύπη
Transliteration
lupe
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3077. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

grief

Usage: λύπη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX for עֶצֶב and cogn. forms, etc. ;] pain of body or mind, grief, sorrow: Jhn.16:6, 2Co.2:7; opposite to χαρά, Jhn.16:20, Heb.12:11; ἀπὸ τῆς λ., Luk.22:45; ἐκ λ., 2Co.9:7; ἡ κατὰ θεὸν λ., opposite to ἡ τ. κόσ-μου λ., 2Co.7:10; λ. μοι ἐστιν, Rom.9:2; λ. ἔχω, Jhn.16:21-22; id. before ἀπό, 2Co.2:3; λ. ἐπὶ λ. ἔχω, Php.2:27; ἐν λ. ἐλθεῖν, 2Co.2:1 (to come sad and cause sadness); pl. (cf. Gen.3:16, Pro.15:13, al.), 1Pe.2:19.† (AS)

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How Strong's G3077 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render lupe, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

sorrow Luke 22:45 heaviness Romans 9:2 grief 1 Peter 2:19 grievous Hebrews 12:11 grudgingly 2 Corinthians 9:7

How Strong's G3077 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha with 24 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3077 (λύπη) appears 47 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3077 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3077 in the New Testament

14 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 22:45 KJV

And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,

John 16:6 KJV

But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

John 16:20 KJV

Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Strong's G3077 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

18 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 3:16 Septuagint / Brenton

And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pains and thy groanings; in pain thou shalt bring forth children, and thy submission shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Genesis 3:17 Septuagint / Brenton

And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat—of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labors, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

Genesis 5:29 Septuagint / Brenton

And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will cause us to cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed.

Strong's G3077 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

24 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 3:20 Septuagint / Brenton

it turneth also every thought into jollity and mirth, so that a man remembereth neither sorrow nor debt:

Tobit 3:6 Septuagint / Brenton

Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.

Tobit 3:10 Septuagint / Brenton

When she heard these things she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.

Strong's G3077 in 1 Enoch

2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 102:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in grief, And that in your life your body fared not according to your goodness, But wait for the day of the judgement of sinners And for the day of cursing and chastisement.

1 Enoch 102:7 Septuagint / Brenton

Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness, And what have they more than we ? From henceforth we are equal.

Usage Excerpts

First 58 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3077.

Genesis 3:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pains and thy groanings; in pain thou shalt bring forth children, and thy submission shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis 3:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat—of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labors, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Genesis 5:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will cause us to cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed.
Genesis 42:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But he said, My son shall not go down with you, because his brother is dead, and he only has been left; and suppose it shall come to pass that he is afflicted by the way by which ye go, then ye shall bring down my old age with sorrow to Hades.
Genesis 44:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If then ye take this one also from my presence, and an affliction happen to him by the way, then shall ye bring down my old age with sorrow to the grave.
Proverbs 10:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A wise son makes his father glad: But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.
Proverbs 10:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But he that reproves boldly is a peacemaker.
Proverbs 10:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
It enriches him, and grief of heart shall not be added to it.
Proverbs 14:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Grief mingles not with mirth; And joy in the end comes to grief.
Proverbs 15:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When the heart rejoices the countenance is cheerful; But when it is in sorrow, the countenance is sad.
Proverbs 31:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain:
Proverbs 32:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 1:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Why should ye be smitten anymore, transgressing more and more? the whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad.
Isaiah 35:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and shall return, and come to Zion with joy, and everlasting joy shall be over their head; for on their head shall be praise and exultation, and joy shall take possession of them: sorrow and pain, and groaning have fled away.
Isaiah 40:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.
Isaiah 50:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, ye all kindle a fire, and feed a flame: walk in the light of your fire, and in the flame which ye have kindled. This has happened to you for my sake; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Isaiah 51:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for by the help of the Lord they shall return, and come to Zion with joy and everlasting exultation, for praise and joy shall come upon their head: pain, and grief, and groaning, have fled away.
Jonah 4:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But Jonah was very deeply grieved, and he was confounded.
Luke 22:45 New Testament, KJV
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
John 16:6 New Testament, KJV
But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
John 16:20 New Testament, KJV
Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
John 16:21 New Testament, KJV
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
John 16:22 New Testament, KJV
And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Romans 9:2 New Testament, KJV
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
2 Corinthians 2:1 New Testament, KJV
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2 Corinthians 2:3 New Testament, KJV
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
2 Corinthians 2:7 New Testament, KJV
So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
2 Corinthians 7:10 New Testament, KJV
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
2 Corinthians 9:7 New Testament, KJV
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Philippians 2:27 New Testament, KJV
For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
Hebrews 12:11 New Testament, KJV
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
1 Peter 2:19 New Testament, KJV
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
1 Esdras 3:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
it turneth also every thought into jollity and mirth, so that a man remembereth neither sorrow nor debt:
Tobit 3:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.
Tobit 3:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
When she heard these things she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.
Tobit 7:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Which when she had done as he had bidden her, she brought her thither: and she wept, and she received the tears of her daughter, and said unto her,
Tobit 14:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Go into Media, my son, for I surely believe those things which Jonah the prophet spoke of Nineveh, that it shall be overthrown; and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land: and Jerusalem shall be desolate, and the house of God in it shall be burned, and shall be desolate for a time;
1 Maccabees 6:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
rose up against him in battle: so he fled, and departed thence with great heaviness, and returned to Babylon.
1 Maccabees 6:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now when the king heard these words, he was astonished and sore moved: whereupon he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.
1 Maccabees 6:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And there he continued many days: for his grief was ever more and more, and he made account that he should die.
1 Maccabees 6:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
I perceive therefore that for this cause these troubles are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.
4 Maccabees 1:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And before pain is fear; and after pain, sorrow.
Wisdom of Solomon 8:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore I purposed to take her to me to live with me, Knowing that she would be a counselor of good things, And a comfort in cares and grief.
Wisdom of Solomon 11:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For a double grief came upon them, And a groaning for the remembrance of things past.
Wisdom of Sirach 12:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: But in his adversity even a friend will depart.
Wisdom of Sirach 14:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Blessed is the man that hath not slipped with his mouth, And is not pricked with the multitude of sins.
Wisdom of Sirach 18:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
My son, blemish not thy good deeds, Neither use uncomfortable words when thou givest anything.
Wisdom of Sirach 22:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: But she that liveth dishonestly is her father’s heaviness.
Wisdom of Sirach 30:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And afflict not thyself in thine own counsel.
Wisdom of Sirach 30:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And comfort thy heart, Remove sorrow far from thee: For sorrow hath killed many, And there is no profit therein.
Wisdom of Sirach 36:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Give testimony unto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, And raise up prophets that have been in thy name.
Wisdom of Sirach 37:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Is it not a grief unto death, When a companion and friend is turned to an enemy?
Wisdom of Sirach 38:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Weep bitterly, and make great moan, And use lamentation, as he is worthy, And that a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken of: And then comfort thyself for thy heaviness;
Wisdom of Sirach 38:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For of heaviness cometh death, And the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.
Wisdom of Sirach 38:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
In affliction also sorrow remaineth: And the life of the poor is the curse of the heart.
Wisdom of Sirach 38:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Take no heaviness to heart: Drive it away, and remember the last end.
1 Enoch 102:5 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in grief, And that in your life your body fared not according to your goodness, But wait for the day of the judgement of sinners And for the day of cursing and chastisement.
1 Enoch 102:7 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness, And what have they more than we ? From henceforth we are equal.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3077, grouped by book.

Genesis 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
John 4 usages, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
2 Corinthians 5 usages, New Testament
Philippians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 12 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 2 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G3077 FAQ

What does lype (λύπη) mean?

Lype (Strong's G3077) is a Greek word most simply glossed "sadness". lupe (loo'-pay) n. 1. sadness [apparently a primary word]

How many times is lype (λύπη) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 58 linked usages for Strong's G3077 across 18 books.

Where can I study lype (λύπη) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3077 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate lype (λύπη)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sorrow, heaviness, grudgingly, grievous, and grief. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3077 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 18 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 24 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G3077, with linked reader references where each row is available.