Bible Concordance
Grievous (73 Occurrences)Matthew 23:4 For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them. (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT)
Luke 11:46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. (KJV ASV WBS YLT)
Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. (KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Acts 25:7 When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove, (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)
2 Corinthians 12:10 In fact I take pleasure in infirmities, in the bearing of insults, in distress, in persecutions, in grievous difficulties--for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. (WEY)
Philippians 3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. (KJV WBS)
2 Timothy 3:1 But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. (WEB WEY ASV)
Hebrews 12:11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. (WEB KJV ASV WBS)
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)
Revelation 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. (KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Genesis 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. (KJV DBY WBS YLT)
Genesis 18:20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NIV)
Genesis 21:11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Genesis 21:12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Genesis 41:31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Genesis 41:56 And the famine was on all the earth. And Joseph opened every place in which there was provision, and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine was grievous in the land of Egypt. (DBY)
Genesis 41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was grievous on the whole earth. (DBY)
Genesis 43:1 And the famine was grievous in the land. (DBY)
Genesis 47:4 And they said to Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for the sheep that thy servants have, for the famine is grievous in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. (DBY YLT)
Genesis 47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very grievous; and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted through the famine. (DBY YLT)
Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan; and there they lamented with a great and very grievous lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father of seven days. (DBY YLT)
Genesis 50:11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Exodus 8:24 Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)
Exodus 9:3 behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Exodus 9:18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. Leviticus (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Exodus 9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Exodus 10:14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Deuteronomy 6:22 and Jehovah shewed signs and wonders, great and grievous, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes; (DBY RSV)
Deuteronomy 28:35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. (See RSV)
Deuteronomy 28:59 then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. (See RSV)
Judges 20:34 And they come in over against Gibeah -- ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel -- and the battle 'is' grievous, and they have not known that the evil is striking against them. (YLT)
1 Kings 2:8 "Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying,'I will not put you to death with the sword.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
1 Kings 12:4 "Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
1 Kings 18:2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a grievous famine in Samaria. (WBS)
2 Chronicles 10:4 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Job 2:7 And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah; and he smote Job with a grievous botch from the sole of his foot unto his crown. (DBY)
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all. (DBY)
Psalms 10:5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. (KJV WBS)
Psalms 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. (KJV WBS)
Psalms 73:16 When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes; (DBY)
Psalms 139:24 And see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting. (DBY JPS YLT)
Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Proverbs 15:10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Proverbs 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey: So 'for men' to search out their own glory is grievous. (ASV)
Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: this grievous occupation hath God given to the children of men to weary themselves therewith. (DBY WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 2:17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. (See NAS)
Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is one alone and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and he saith not, For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation. (DBY JPS WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 5:13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 5:16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind? (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 6:2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease. (See NIV)
Ecclesiastes 10:13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. (See JPS)
Isaiah 9:1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. (Root in KJV JPS WBS)
Isaiah 10:11 Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things? (YLT)
Isaiah 15:4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. (KJV WBS YLT)
Isaiah 21:2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media's sighing. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Isaiah 30:27 Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger a grievous conflagration; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a consuming fire; (DBY)
Jeremiah 6:28 They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Jeremiah 10:19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)
Jeremiah 14:17 You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail? (See NIV)
Jeremiah 16:4 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Jeremiah 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. (KJV WBS)
Jeremiah 30:12 For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Jeremiah 50:2 Declare ye among nations, and sound, And lift up an ensign, sound, do not hide, Say ye: Captured hath been Babylon, Put to shame hath been Bel, Broken hath been Merodach, Put to shame have been her grievous things, Broken have been her idols. (YLT)
Ezekiel 21:10 It is sharpened to make a grievous slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree. (WBS)
Ezekiel 25:12 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself on them; (See NAS RSV)
Hosea 11:6 Grievous hath been the sword in his cities, And it hath ended his bars, and consumed -- from their own counsels. (YLT)
Jonah 4:1 And it is grievous unto Jonah -- a great evil -- and he is displeased at it; (YLT)
Micah 2:4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a grievous lamentation, and say, We are utterly wasted: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields. (WBS)
Micah 2:10 Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction. (WEB ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Micah 6:13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins. (WEB JPS ASV)
Nahum 3:19 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Thesaurus
Grievous (73 Occurrences)... 1. (a.) Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; as,
a
grievous error in judgment.
...GRIEVOUS; GRIEVOUSLY; GREIEVOUSNESS.
.../g/grievous.htm - 31kGreievousness
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia GRIEVOUS; GRIEVOUSLY; GREIEVOUSNESS.
grev'-us; grev'-us-li; grev'-us-nes: In addition to several ...
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Grievously (17 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia GRIEVOUS; GRIEVOUSLY; GREIEVOUSNESS.
grev'-us; grev'-us-li; grev'-us-nes: In addition to several ...
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Lighter (10 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:4 "Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous
service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter ...
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Lighten (19 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous; and now lighten thou the grievous
servitude of thy father and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will ...
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Servitude (21 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous; and now lighten thou the grievous
servitude of thy father and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will ...
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Heavy (110 Occurrences)
... 3. (superl.) Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish;
hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings ...
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Wound (58 Occurrences)
... my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it. ... Micah
6:13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. ...
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Noisome (7 Occurrences)
... Version (British and American) "cockle," as in the King James Version margin; of
kakos, "evil," "bad" (Revelation 16:2), "a noisome and grievous sore." "Noisome ...
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Occupation (9 Occurrences)
... Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning
all that is done under the heavens: this grievous occupation hath God ...
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Greek
926. barus -- heavy ... Cognate: 926 -- (an adjective, also used substantively) -- properly, heavy (weighty);
(figuratively) what is
grievous (burdensome), on a person with oppressive
... /greek/926.htm - 7k4190. poneros -- toilsome, bad
... 6), wicked man (1), wicked things (1), worthless (1). evil, grievous. From
a derivative of ponos; hurtful, ie Evil (properly, in ...
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1419. dusbastaktos -- hard to be borne, oppressive
... grievous, hard to bear. From dus- and a derivative of bastazo; oppressive --
grievous to be borne. see GREEK dus-. see GREEK bastazo. ...
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1418. dus- -- like un- or mis- (as in unrest, misjudge), nullifies ...
... hard, grievous. A primary inseparable particle of uncertain derivation; used
only in composition as a prefix; hard, ie With difficulty ...
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2560. kakos -- badly
... evilly, wrongly. Cognate: 2560 (the adverbial form of 2556 ) -- related
to experiencing grievous harm (affliction). Word Origin ...
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3077. lupe -- pain of body or mind, grief, sorrow
... grief, pain, sorrow. Apparently a primary word; sadness -- grief, grievous, +
grudgingly, heaviness, sorrow. (lupas) -- 1 Occurrence. (lupe) -- 7 Occurrences. ...
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3636. okneros -- shrinking, timid, hence idle, lazy, troublesome
... lazy, slothful. From okneo; tardy, ie Indolent; (figuratively) irksome -- grievous,
slothful. see GREEK okneo. (oknere) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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894. apsinthos -- wormwood
... Definition: wormwood. 894 -- a bitter plant known as ""; (figuratively) what
is (grievous), bringing on (used only in Rev 8:11). Word ...
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