ἀλγέω
feel pain, grieve
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀλγέω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Samuel 1:26 ἀλγέω I am grieved for you, my brother Jonathan; you were very lovely to me; your love to me was wonderful beyond the love of women.
- Job 5:18 ἀλγέω for he causes a man to be in pain, and restores him again: he smites, and his hands heal.
- Job 14:22 ἀλγέω But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.
- Job 16:6 ἀλγέω And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.
- Psalms 68:30 ἀλγέω I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;
- Jeremiah 4:19 ἀλγέω I am pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the sensitive powers of my heart; my soul is in great commotion, my heart is torn: I will not be silent, for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet, the cry of war, and of distress: it calls on destruction;
About this word
About this word
ἀλγέω (algéō), “feel pain, grieve,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 6 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
