Kaab means “grieving” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3510 — nephros (“reins”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3510 כָּאַב (ka'ab) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ka'ab (kaw-ab') v. 1. (properly) to feel pain 2. (by implication) to grieve It has 8 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include sorrowful, mar, make, pain, and have. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ka'ab (kaw-ab') v. 1. (properly) to feel pain 2. (by implication) to grieve 3. (figuratively) to spoil [a primitive root] KJV: grieving, mar, have pain, make sad (sore), (be) sorrowful.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3510. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to pain
Usage: 1) to be in pain, be sore, have pain, be sorrowful 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be in pain (physical) 1a2) to be in pain (mental) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause pain, hurt, mar 1b2) pain, mar (participle)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ka'ab, 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 Old Testament. 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.
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.
8 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3510.
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3510, grouped by book.
Kaab (Strong's H3510) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "grieving". ka'ab (kaw-ab') v. 1. (properly) to feel pain 2. (by implication) to grieve
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's H3510 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3510 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sorrowful, mar, make, pain, have, and grieving. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.