עָצַב

Strong’s Definition

properly, to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion; hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger

Etymology & Derivation

a primitive root;

KJV Usage

displease, grieve, hurt, make, be sorry, vex, worship, wrest.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.to hurt, pain, grieve, displease, vex, wrest
• 2.(qal) to hurt, pain
• 3.(piel) to shape, form
• 4.(hiphil) to form, fashion
• 5.(niphal) to be in pain, be pained, be grieved
• 6.(piel) to vex, torture
• 7.to shape, fashion, make, form, stretch into shape, worship
• 8.(hiphil) to cause pain
• 9.(hithpael) to feel grieved, be vexed

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: ʻâtsab; Pronunciation: aw-tsab'