Stenazo means “sigh” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4727 — miqqach (“taking”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4727 στενάζω (stenazo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. stenazo (sten-ad'-zo) v. 1. to make in distress (in a tight spot) 2. (intransitively) to be in distress It has 32 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include groan, sighed, and grief. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
stenazo (sten-ad'-zo) v. 1. to make in distress (in a tight spot) 2. (intransitively) to be in distress 3. (by implication) to sigh, groan, pray inaudibly [from G4728] KJV: with grief, groan, grudge, sigh Root(s): G4728
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4727. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to groan
Usage: στενάζω [in LXX for אָנַח ni., אָנַק, etc. ;] to groan ("the word denotes feeling which is internal and unexpressed," Mayor, Ja., 162): Mrk.7:34, 2Co.5:2 5:4, Heb.13:17, Jas.5:9 (EV, murmur); ἐν ἑαυτοῖς, Rom.8:23 (cf. ἀνα-, συ(ν)-στενάζω).† SYN.: see: κλαίω (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render stenazo, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, 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.
Strong's G4727 (στενάζω) appears 28 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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6 indexed usages in New Testament.
And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
19 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;
But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: The last groaned for him, And wonder seized the first.
Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, And the soul of the children has groaned aloud.
6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then I being grieved did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, saying,
so that the princes and elders mourned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of women was changed.
And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed, the high-minded and Abrahamic youth did not groan.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain."'
First 32 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4727.
And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;
But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: The last groaned for him, And wonder seized the first.
Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, And the soul of the children has groaned aloud.
Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
If at any time the land groaned against me, And if its furrows mourned together;
And the fishermen shall groan, and all that cast a hook into the river shall groan; they also that cast nets, and the anglers shall mourn.
so a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.
The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.
Thus saith the Lord, the Holy Lord of Israel; When thou shalt turn and mourn, then thou shalt be saved; and thou shalt know where thou wast, when thou didst trust in vanities: then your strength became vain, yet ye would not hearken:
Remember ye these things, and groan: repent, ye that have gone astray, return in your heart;
They shall feel for the wall as blind men, and shall feel for it as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noonday as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.
For after my captivity I repented; and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and showed thee that I bore reproach from my youth.
Jerusalem has sinned a great sin; Therefore has she come into tribulation, All that used to honor her have afflicted her, For they have seen her shame: Yea, she herself groaned, and turned backward.
Hear, I pray you, for I groan: There is none to comfort me: All mine enemies have heard of mine afflictions, And rejoice because thou hast done it: Thou hast brought on the day, Thou hast called the time: They are become like to me.
And thou, son of man, groan with the breaking of thy loins; thou shalt even groan heavily in their sight.
And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to thee, Wherefore dost thou groan? that thou shalt say, For the report; because it comes: and every heart shall break, and all hands shall become feeble, and all flesh and every spirit shall faint, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture: behold, it comes, saith the Lord.
For thus saith the Lord God to Tyre; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, while the wounded are groaning, while they have drawn a sword in the midst of thee?
And all the princes of the nations of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall take off their crowns from their heads, and shall take off their embroidered raiment: they shall be utterly amazed; they shall sit upon the ground, and fear their own destruction, and shall groan over thee.
And it shall be that everyone that sees thee shall go down from thee, and shall say, Wretched Nineveh! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?
And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
Then I being grieved did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, saying,
so that the princes and elders mourned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of women was changed.
And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed, the high-minded and Abrahamic youth did not groan.
And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit Shall say within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, And a proverb of reproach:
As a eunuch that embraceth a virgin and sigheth.
A froward heart causeth heaviness: But a man of experience will recompense him.
of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain."'
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4727, grouped by book.
Stenazo (Strong's G4727) is a Greek word most simply glossed "sigh". stenazo (sten-ad'-zo) v. 1. to make in distress (in a tight spot) 2. (intransitively) to be in distress
This page currently indexes 32 linked usages for Strong's G4727 across 17 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4727 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as groan, sighed, and grief. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 19 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G4727, with linked reader references where each row is available.