Strong's Definition
properly, to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion; hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: displease, grieve, hurt, make, be sorry, vex, worship, wrest.
TWOT Reference: 1666,1667
Outline of Biblical 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
2) to shape, fashion, make, form, stretch into shape, (TWOT) worship
2a) (Piel) to shape, form
2b) (Hiphil) to form, copy, fashion
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
עָצַב
‛âtsab
BDB Definition:
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
2) to shape, fashion, make, form, stretch into shape, (TWOT) worship
2a) (Piel) to shape, form
2b) (Hiphil) to form, copy, fashion
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1666, 1667
Total KJV Occurrences: 17