Atsab means “displease” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6087 עָצַב (`atsab) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `atsab (aw-tsab') v. 1. (properly) to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion 2. hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger It has 17 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include grieve, they, you, anger, and fashioned. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`atsab (aw-tsab') v. 1. (properly) to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion 2. hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger [a primitive root] KJV: displease, grieve, hurt, make, be sorry, vex, worship, wrest.
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to hurt
Usage: 1) to hurt, pain, grieve, displease, vex, wrest 1a) (Qal) to hurt, pain 1b)(Niphal) to be in pain, be pained, be grieved 1c) (Piel) to vex, torture 1d) (Hiphil) to cause pain 1e) (Hithpael) to feel grieved, be vexed Aramaic equivalent: a.tsav (עֲצַב "to pain" H6088)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `atsab, 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.
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17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter: which thing ought not to be done.
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6087.
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter: which thing ought not to be done.
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.
And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6087, grouped by book.
Atsab (Strong's H6087) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "displease". `atsab (aw-tsab') v. 1. (properly) to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion 2. hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H6087 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6087 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as grieve, they, you, anger, fashioned, and hurt. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.