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Notes:
(1)
4
, “to work out with labor,” in the passive voice, “to be sore
troubled,” is rendered “being grieved” in Acts 4:2 and 16:18,
KJV
(
RV
, “sore troubled”).
See
TROUBLE
.¶ In some mss., Mark 14:4. (2)
8
, “to be angry with,” is
rendered “was grieved” in Heb. 3:10, 17,
KJV
(
RV
, “was displeased”). See
DISPLEASE
.¶
GRIEVOUS, GRIEVOUSLY
A. Adjectives.
1.
$
(
$"
, 926) denotes “heavy, burdensome”; it is always used metaphorically
in the NT, and is translated “heavy” in Matt. 23:4, of Pharisaical ordinances; in the
comparative degree “weightier,” 23:23, of details of the law of God; “grievous,”
metaphorically of wolves, in Acts 20:29; of charges, 25:7; negatively of God’s
commandments, 1 John 5:3 (causing a burden on him who fulfills them); in 2 Cor. 10:10,
“weighty,” of Paul’s letters. See
HEAVY
,
WEIGHTY
.¶
2.
(
$
, 4190), “painful, bad,” is translated “grievous” in Rev. 16:2, of a
sore inflicted retributively. See
BAD
.
3.
$
(
1
, 1419), “hard to be borne” (from
$
, an inseparable
prefix, like Eng. “mis-,” and “un-,” indicating “difficulty, injuriousness, opposition,” etc.,
and
, “to bear”), is used in Luke 11:46 and, in some mss., in Matt. 23:4, “grievous
to be borne”; in the latter the
RV
marg. has “many ancient authorities omit.”¶
4.
(
, 5467), “hard,” signifies (a) “hard to deal with,” Matt. 8:28 (see
FIERCE
); (b) “hard to bear, grievous,” 2 Tim. 3:1,
RV
, “grievous” (
KJV
, “perilous”), said of
a characteristic of the last days of this age. See
FIERCE
.¶
Notes:
(1) For the noun
$
, “grievous,” in Heb. 12:11, see
GRIEF
. (2) In Phil. 3:1,
the adjective
, “shrinking,” or “causing shrinking,” hence, “tedious” (akin to
, “to shrink”), is rendered “irksome” in the
RV
(
KJV
, “grievous”); the apostle
intimates that, not finding his message tedious, he has no hesitation in giving it. In Matt.
25:26 and Rom. 12:11, “slothful.”¶
B. Adverbs.
1.
(
, 1171), akin to
, “fear,” signifies (a) “terribly,” Matt. 8:6,
“grievously (tormented)”; (b) “vehemently,” Luke 11:53. See
VEHEMENTLY
.¶
2.
(
, 2560), “badly, ill,” is translated “grievously (vexed),” in Matt.
15:22. See
AMISS
,
EVIL
,
MISERABLY
,
SORE
.
Notes:
(1) In Mark 9:20 and Luke 9:42, the
RV
renders the verb
$
“tare
(him) grievously,” the adverb bringing out the intensive force of the prefix
$/
(i.e.,
$
);
the meaning may be “threw violently to the ground.” (2) In Matt. 17:15, the idiomatic
phrase, consisting of No. 2 (above) with
, “to have,” (lit., “hath badly”), is rendered
“suffereth grievously,”
RV
(
KJV
, “is … sore vexed”).
GRIND