Strong G3077λύπη

grief

Transliteration
lupē
Pronunciation
loo'-pay
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

Apparently a primary word; sadness: - grief grievous + grudgingly heaviness sorrow.

Detailed definition

λύπη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX for עֶצֶב and cogn. forms, etc.;]
pain of body or mind, grief, sorrow: Jhn.16:6, 2Co.2:7; opposite to χαρά, Jhn.16:20, Heb.12:11; ἀπὸ τῆς λ., Luk.22:45; ἐκ λ., 2Co.9:7; ἡ κατὰ θεὸν λ., opposite to ἡ τ. κόσ-μου λ., 2Co.7:10; λ. μοι ἐστιν, Rom.9:2; λ. ἔχω, Jhn.16:21-22; id. before ἀπό, 2Co.2:3; λ. ἐπὶ λ. ἔχω, Php.2:27; ἐν λ. ἐλθεῖν, 2Co.2:1 (to come sad and cause sadness); pl. (cf. Gen.3:16, Pro.15:13, al.), 1Pe.2:19.†
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In the Bible

Strong G3077 appears in 14 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • sorrow10
  • heaviness2
  • grief1
  • grievous1
  • grudgingly1

First verses

  1. Luke 22:45
    And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
  2. John 16:6
    But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
  3. John 16:20
    Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
  4. John 16:21
    A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
  5. John 16:22
    And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
  6. Romans 9:2
    That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
  7. 2 Corinthians 2:1
    But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
  8. 2 Corinthians 2:3
    And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
  9. 2 Corinthians 2:7
    So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
  10. 2 Corinthians 7:10
    For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
  11. 2 Corinthians 9:7
    Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
  12. Philippians 2:27
    For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
  13. Hebrews 12:11
    Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
  14. 1 Peter 2:19
    For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
λῡπ-η, ἡ,
pain of body, opposed to ἡδονή, [Refs ([prev. author] “Phlb.” 31c, etc.)]; also, sad plight or condition, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.152.)]
2 pain of mind, grief,[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 16. ; δῆγμα δὲ λύπης οὐδὲν ἐφ᾽ ἧπαρ προσικνεῖται 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 791 (_anapaest meter_))]; τί γὰρ καλὸν ζῆν βίοτον, ὃς λύπας φέρε; [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “fragment” 177, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1217 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ἐρωτικὴ λ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.59; λύπας προσβάλλειν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2. 2.2; λ. φέρειν τινί 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.8)]; opposed to χαρά, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.32.)]