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grēv´us ; grēv´us - 51 ; grēv´us - nes : In addition to several of the words mentioned under GRIEF (which see), we have kābhēdh ("heavy") 8 t, e.g. Genesis 12:10 , "The famine was grievous in the land," the Revised Version (British and American) "sore"; mārac ("powerful"), "a grievous curse" (1 Kings 2:8 ); ṣur , "to turn aside" (Jeremiah 6:28 ), "grievous revolters"; ḳāsheh , "to make sharp" (1 Kings 12:4; 2 Chronicles 10:4 ); taḥălu'ı̄m (Jeremiah 16:4 ), "They shall die grievous deaths," the Revised Version, margin "deaths of sicknesses"; ‛āthāḳ (Psalm 31:18 ), "which speak grievous things proudly," the Revised Version (British and American) "against the righteous insolently"; ḥēṭ , "sin" (Lamentations 1:8 ), "Jerus hath grievously sinned" (literally, "hath sinned a sin"); mā‛al , "trespass" (Ezekiel 14:13 ), "trespassing grievously" (literally, "trespassing a trespass") the Revised Version (British and American) "committing a trespass"; kōbhedh , "weight" (Isaiah 21:15 ), "grievousness"; barús , "heavy," "grievous wolves" (Acts 20:29 ), "grievous charges" (Acts 25:7 ), "His commandments are not grievous" (1 John 5:3 ); oknērós , the Revised Version (British and American) "irksome" (Philippians 3:1 ); ponērós , "evil" (Revelation 16:2 ), "a grievous sore"; dusbástaktos , "grievous to be borne" (Matthew 23:4; Luke 11:46 ); deinós , "greatly," "grievously tormented" (Matthew 8:6 ); kakō̇s , "badly," "grievously vexed" (Matthew 15:22 ).