Strong's Definition
a primitive root; properly, to feel pain; by implication, to grieve; figuratively, to spoil
KJV Usage: grieving, mar, have pain, make sad (sore), (be) sorrowful
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
כָּאַב (ka.av) — to pain. 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)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · כְּאֵב · מַכְאֹוב
Impact | verb qal
to be in pain = state in which humans feel strong pain, usually as a result of a physical injury
Impact | verb hif
to hurt, to wound = causative action by which humans or plants inflict wounds on humans and cause them to feel strong pain
Impact | verb hif
to ruin = causative action by which humans cause an object to no longer function as it should
Grieve | verb qal | ≈ עָנִי · תּוגָה
to grieve = state in which humans experience grief
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
כָּאַב vb. be in pain Qal be in pain, physical
of mental pain
Hiph. pain, mar
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