H5701 H5701
be grieved, feel anguish (for another)
A verb expressing deep grief or anguish for another's suffering, appearing in Job's self-defense. Job asks rhetorically, 'Did I not weep for the one whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?' The word conveys sympathetic suffering, the inner anguish one feels witnessing another's misery. Cognates in Aramaic and possibly Akkadian carry similar emotional intensity.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Job's grief for the suffering poor in Job 30:25, where he protests his innocence by recalling his compassion. 'Did I not weep for the one in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?'—the verb emphasizes inner anguish, not mere pity but soul-level suffering with those in distress. The parallel with 'weep' shows this is more than intellectual sympathy; it is emotional participation in another's pain. 1×
AR["حَزِنَت"]·ben["দুঃখিত-হয়েছিল"]·DE["[עגמה]"]·EN["grieved"]·FR["עגמה"]·heb["עגמה"]·HI["दुखी-थी"]·ID["berduka"]·IT["grieved"]·jav["susah"]·KO["슬퍼하였다"]·PT["entristeceu-se"]·RU["скорбела"]·ES["se-entristeció"]·SW["ilihuzunika"]·TR["kederlendi"]·urd["غریب کے لیے"]
Related Senses
G2309 1. want, desire (166×)G0025 1. to love actively (133×)H0157 1. love (verb, active Qal) (129×)H8055 1. Qal: rejoice, be glad (123×)H7453 1. neighbor, fellow man (120×)G0026 1. of love (115×)H1058 1. Qal: to weep, cry (112×)H0954 1. to be ashamed, feel shame (Qal) (95×)H8057 1. joy, gladness, delight (90×)H2781 1. disgrace, shame, dishonor (68×)G2307 1. will, desire, purpose (63×)G5463 1. rejoice, be glad (63×)G0027 1. beloved (61×)H8130 1. Qal: to hate, detest (60×)G5479 1. (59×)G1680 1. (53×)H8130 2. Qal ptcp: hater, enemy (53×)H0014 1. be willing, want (51×)H0157 2. lover, friend (Qal participle substantive) (51×)H1945 1. woe (50×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [עָגַם] vb. be grieved (NH id.; Aramaic עֲגַם, and ܥܓܡ (in Lexx.) id.; cf. perhaps also Assyrian agâmu, be vexed DlHWB 16 (rare; cited under אגם));— Qal Pf. 3 fs. אִם־לֹא … עָֽגְמָה נַפְשִׁי לָאֶבְיוֹן Jb 30:25 was not my soul grieved for the poor? (‖ בָּכִיתִי).