λυπηρός
painful, grievous
Where this word appears
Every passage where λυπηρός appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 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.
- Genesis 34:7 λυπηρός And the sons of Jacob came from the plain; and when they heard, the men were deeply pained, and it was very grievous to them, because the man wrought folly in Israel, having lain with the daughter of Jacob, and so it must not be.
- Proverbs 14:10 λυπηρός If a man's mind is intelligent, his soul is sorrowful; and when he rejoices, he has no fellowship with pride.
- Proverbs 15:1 λυπηρός Anger slays even wise men; yet a submissive answer turns away wrath: but a grievous word stirs up anger.
- Proverbs 17:22 λυπηρός A glad heart promotes health; but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.
- Proverbs 26:23 λυπηρός Silver dishonestly given is to be considered as a potsherd: smooth lips cover a grievous heart.
About this word
About this word
λυπηρός (lypērós), “painful, grievous,” 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 5 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 →
