λύπη
grief
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3077 appears in the Book of Luke — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun λυπη centers on the idea of “grief.” Its earliest occurrence is Luke 22:45. The Greek New Testament uses it across 14 verses — uncommon. 2 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 5 of 14 verses. Sharing its root, it stands alongside λυπεω. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3077 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #726
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 726 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 5 verses 36%
- John 4 verses 29%
- Luke 1 verse 7%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 7 verses · 50%
- Gospels 5 verses · 36%
- Johannine 4 verses · 29%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 7%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 7%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sorrow 11×, Heaviness 2×
- American Standard Version: Sorrow 13×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sorrow 9×, Pain 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sorrow 12×, Pain 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3077 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3077 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3077 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3077 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- sorrow, pain, grief, annoyance, affliction
Word origin
Origin: apparently a root word
Apparently a primary word; sadness : - grief grievous + grudgingly heaviness sorrow.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3077 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λύπη lýpē | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | John 16:6 | 5 |
| λύπην lýpēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | John 16:21 | 5 |
| λύπης lýpēs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 22:45 | 3 |
| λύπῃ lýpē | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 2:1 | 2 |
| λύπας lýpas | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | 1 Peter 2:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3077, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λυπη appears 19 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 18 verses in 4 books.
- 19
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 18
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:16 λύπη
- Proverbs 10:1 λύπη
- Isaiah 1:5 λύπη
- Jonah 4:1 λύπη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3077) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:16 λύπη To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
- Genesis 3:17 λύπη To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 5:29 λύπη and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
- Genesis 42:38 λύπη He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
- Genesis 44:29 λύπη If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
- Proverbs 10:1 λύπη The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
- Proverbs 10:10 λύπη One winking with the eye causes sorrow, But a chattering fool will fall.
- Proverbs 10:22 λύπη Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, And he adds no trouble to it.
- Proverbs 14:13 λύπη Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, And mirth may end in heaviness.
- Proverbs 15:13 λύπη A glad heart makes a cheerful face; But an aching heart breaks the spirit.
- Proverbs 25:20 λύπη As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, Or vinegar on soda, So is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
- Proverbs 31:6 λύπη Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; And wine to the bitter in soul:
- Isaiah 1:5 λύπη Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint.
- Isaiah 35:10 λύπη and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
- Isaiah 40:29 λύπη He gives power to the faint; and to him who has no might he increases strength.
- Isaiah 50:11 λύπη Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk you in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. This shall you have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.
- Isaiah 51:11 λύπη The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
- Jonah 4:1 λύπη But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3077) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
