Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
torment
Usage: 1) place of pain, place of grief 2) (TWOT) terror
Maatsebah means “sorrow” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4620 — sitometron (“portion of meat”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4620 מַעֲצֵבָה (ma`atsebah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ma`atsebah (mah-ats-ay-baw') n-f. 1. anguish [from H6087] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include sorrow. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ma`atsebah (mah-ats-ay-baw') n-f. 1. anguish [from H6087] KJV: sorrow. Root(s): H6087
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4620. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
torment
Usage: 1) place of pain, place of grief 2) (TWOT) terror
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ma`atsebah, 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.
1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H4620.
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4620, grouped by book.
Maatsebah (Strong's H4620) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "sorrow". ma`atsebah (mah-ats-ay-baw') n-f. 1. anguish [from H6087]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H4620 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4620 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sorrow. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.