יָגוֹן
grief
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3015 appears in the Book of Isaiah — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 35:10 יָג֥וֹן n c ms 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 51:11 יָג֥וֹן n c ms 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.
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 Hebrew noun יגון centers on the idea of “grief.” Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 42:38. It appears 14 verses across 6 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Psalms (29%), then Jeremiah and Genesis. It clusters with יגה, יגה and תוגה under a shared root. Dig into 14-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3015 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 36%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 14%
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 10×, Grief 2×
- American Standard Version: Sorrow 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sorrow 12×, Grief 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sorrow 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3015 across 14 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3015 across 14 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 H3015 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3015 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- grief, sorrow, anguish
Word origin
n.[m.] grief, sorrow;—abs. יָגוֹן Gn 42:38 + 12 times; sf. (מִ)יגוֹנָם Je 31:13;—sorrow, Gn 42:38; 44:31 (J), ψ 13:3 Je 8:18; ‖ אֲנָחָה ψ 31:11 Is 35:10; 51:11; cf. ψ 107:39 (‖ עֹצֶר, רָעָה), 116:3 (‖ צָרָה), Je 20:18 (‖ עָמָל), 31:13 (‖ אֵבֶל, opp. שִׂמַּחְתִּים), 45:3 (‖ מַכְאֹבִי), Ez 23:33 (‖ שִׁכָּרוֹן, but Co.; שׁברון with Codd.; cf. 21:11); Est 9:22 (opp. שִׂמְחָה).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יגה (yâgâh) (H3013) — to grieve.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יָגוֹן
- pain, grief. Midr. Till. to Ps. CXLVII, end.—Tanḥ. Sh’mini 11 כי היין … והי׳ בא בלבו for when the wine leaves his body, grief enters his (the drunkard’s) heart; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H3015 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/יָג֖וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 42:38 | 2 |
| יָג֥וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 35:10 | 2 |
| בְ/יָג֡וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 31:10 | 1 |
| וְ/יָג֑וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 20:18 | 1 |
| וְ/יָג֖וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 23:33 | 1 |
| וְ/יָג֣וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 116:3 | 1 |
| וְ/יָגֽוֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 107:39 | 1 |
| יָג֑וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 8:18 | 1 |
| יָג֖וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 45:3 | 1 |
| יָג֣וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 13:2 | 1 |
| מִ/יָּגוֹן֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Esther 9:22 | 1 |
| מִ/יגוֹנָֽ/ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 31:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3015, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
