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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Heaviness; firmness.

2. (n.) Seriousness; gravity; discretion.

3. (n.) Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.

Greek

3997. penthos -- mourning
... of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: penthos Phonetic Spelling: (pen'-thos)
Short Definition: mourning, sorrow Definition: mourning, sorrow, sadness, grief ...
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2726. katepheia -- dejection
... From a compound of kata and perhaps a derivative of the base of phaino (meaning
downcast in look); demureness, ie (by implication) sadness -- heaviness. ...
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3076. lupeo -- to distress, to grieve
... grieve, vex. Cognate: 3076 (from 3077 , "deep grief") -- to experience deep,
emotional pain (sadness), ie sorrow (grief). 3076 () is ...
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3077. lupe -- pain of body or mind, grief, sorrow
... grief, pain, sorrow. Apparently a primary word; sadness -- grief, grievous, +
grudgingly, heaviness, sorrow. (lupas) -- 1 Occurrence. (lupe) -- 7 Occurrences. ...
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3449. mochthos -- toil, hardship
... painfulness, travail. From the base of mogis; toil, ie (by implication) sadness --
painfulness, travail. see GREEK mogis. (mochthon) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7455. roa -- badness, evil
... Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition badness, evil NASB Word Usage evil
(10), rottenness (4), sad (1), sadness (1), ugliness (1), wickedness (2). ...
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Library

Whether Sadness Causes Pleasure?
... OF THE CAUSE OF PLEASURE (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether sadness causes pleasure? Objection
1: It would seem that sadness does not cause pleasure. ...
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Commandment Fifth. Of Sadness of Heart, and of Patience.
... The Pastor: Book Second."Commandments. Commandment Fifth. Of Sadness of
Heart, and of Patience. Chap. I. "Be patient," said he ...
/.../pastor/the pastor books first second third/commandment fifth of sadness of.htm

Sadness of Christ at Sight of Jerusalem. (Luke, xix. , 41-44. )
... CHAPTER I. FROM THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY TO THE LAST SUPPER. Section 244. Sadness
of Christ at Sight of Jerusalem. (Luke, xix., 41-44.). ...
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That Sadness is Almost Always Useless, Yea Contrary to the Service ...
... PERFECTIONS OF THE SOUL. CHAPTER XXI. THAT SADNESS IS ALMOST ALWAYS USELESS,
YEA CONTRARY TO THE SERVICE OF HOLY LOVE. One cannot graft an ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xxi that sadness is.htm

Whether These are the Four Principal Passions: Joy, Sadness, Hope ...
... OF THE ORDER OF THE PASSIONS TO ONE ANOTHER (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether these are
the four principal passions: joy, sadness, hope and fear? ...
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Concerning the Manner in which Joy and Sadness May be Brought Back ...
... Book X. Chapter XIV."Concerning the Manner in Which Joy and Sadness May
Be Brought Back to the Mind and Memory. 21. This same ...
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Of the Three Perturbations, which the Stoics Admitted in the Soul ...
... Chapter 8."Of the Three Perturbations, Which the Stoics Admitted in the Soul of
the Wise Man to the Exclusion of Grief or Sadness, Which the Manly Mind Ought ...
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Whether the Pain of Christ's Passion was Greater than all Other ...
... Objection 2: Further, strength of soul mitigates pain, so much so that the Stoics
held there was no sadness in the soul of a wise man; and Aristotle (Ethic. ...
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Whether There is Love in God
... 2. Again, love, anger, sadness, and the like are condivided. [15] But sadness and
anger are not attributed to God otherwise than metaphorically. ...
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Whether the Irascible Passions Precede the Concupiscible Passions ...
... Objection 3: Further, joy and sadness are concupiscible passions. But joy and sadness
succeed to the irascible passions: for the Philosopher says (Ethic. ...
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Thesaurus

Sadness (16 Occurrences)
...Sadness (16 Occurrences). 1 Samuel 16:14 And the Spirit of Jehovah turned aside
from Saul, and a spirit of sadness from Jehovah terrified him; (YLT). ...
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Heaviness (14 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The state or quality of being heavy in its various
senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness. Int. ...
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Nehemiah (9 Occurrences)
... and perhaps from other sources (Nehemiah 1:2; 2:3), he heard of the mournful and
desolate condition of the Holy City, and was filled with sadness of heart. ...
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Gladness (83 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 16:23 And it hath come to pass, in the spirit of 'sadness from' God being
on Saul, that David hath taken the harp, and played with his hand, and Saul ...
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Refreshment (3 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 16:23 And it hath come to pass, in the spirit of 'sadness from' God being
on Saul, that David hath taken the harp, and played with his hand, and Saul ...
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Playing (37 Occurrences)
... lord command, we pray thee, thy servants before thee, they seek a skilful man, playing
on a harp, and it hath come to pass, in the spirit of sadness 'from' God ...
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Sorrow (277 Occurrences)
... loss of any good, real or supposed, or by disappointment in the expectation of good;
grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. ...
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Heavy (110 Occurrences)
... from 'anah, "to groan," "to sigh" (Isaiah 29:2, the Revised Version (British and
American) "mourning and lamentation"); tughah, "sadness," "sorrow" (Psalm 119 ...
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Head (4291 Occurrences)
... earth, dust or ashes upon it (Joshua 7:6 1 Samuel 4:12 2 Samuel 12; 2 Samuel
13:19 Lamentations 2:10; compare Amos 2:7) were expressive of sadness, grief, deep ...
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Bible Concordance

Sadness (16 Occurrences)

1 Samuel 16:14 And the Spirit of Jehovah turned aside from Saul, and a spirit of sadness from Jehovah terrified him;
(YLT)

1 Samuel 16:15 and the servants of Saul say unto him, 'Lo, we pray thee, a spirit of sadness 'from' God is terrifying thee;
(YLT)

1 Samuel 16:16 let our lord command, we pray thee, thy servants before thee, they seek a skilful man, playing on a harp, and it hath come to pass, in the spirit of sadness 'from' God being upon thee, that he hath played with his hand, and 'it is' well with thee.'
(YLT)

1 Samuel 16:23 And it hath come to pass, in the spirit of 'sadness from' God being on Saul, that David hath taken the harp, and played with his hand, and Saul hath refreshment and gladness, and the spirit of sadness hath turned aside from off him.
(YLT)

1 Samuel 18:10 And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that the spirit of sadness 'from' God prospereth over Saul, and he prophesieth in the midst of the house, and David is playing with his hand, as day by day, and the javelin 'is' in the hand of Saul,
(YLT)

1 Samuel 19:9 And a spirit of sadness 'from' Jehovah is unto Saul, and he is sitting in his house, and his javelin in his hand, and David is playing with the hand,
(YLT)

Nehemiah 2:2 And the king said to me, Why is thy face sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sadness of heart. And I was very sore afraid.
(DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 35:14 I behaved myself as though he had been a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth for a mother.
(DBY)

Psalms 119:28 My soul melteth for sadness: strengthen me according to thy word.
(DBY)

Proverbs 14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is sadness.
(DBY)

Ecclesiastes 1:18 for, in abundance of wisdom 'is' abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'
(YLT)

Ecclesiastes 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also 'is' vanity.
(YLT)

Ecclesiastes 5:17 Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.
(YLT)

Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Isaiah 29:2 But I will distress Ariel, and there shall be sorrow and sadness; and it shall be unto me as an Ariel.
(DBY)

Jeremiah 8:18 My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!
(DBY)

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