Bible Thesaurus: Misery

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Misery (38 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress;
woe. 2. (n.) Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. ...Misery (38 Occurrences). ...
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Torment (19 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body
or mind. 3. (n.) That which gives pain, vexation, or misery. ...
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Bitterness (37 Occurrences)
... spheres of application: (1) the physical sense of taste; (2) a figurative meaning
in the objective sense of cruel, biting words; intense misery resulting from ...
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Fall (522 Occurrences)
... borrowed from the Apocryphal Book of Wisdom, to express the fact of the revolt of
our first parents from God, and the consequent sin and misery in which they ...
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Groan (32 Occurrences)
... by Babylon, the sound being that uttered by a deadly wounded man (Ezekiel 30:24;
similarly in the prophecy of the Persian conquest the misery of Babylon is ...
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Gnash (12 Occurrences)
... Standard Bible Encyclopedia. GNASH. nash (charaq; brugmos): "Gnash" is used of grinding
or striking together the teeth in rage, pain or misery of disappointment ...
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Ruth (19 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; compassion. 2. (v.) That which causes
pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight. Int. ...
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Down (12601 Occurrences)
... ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or
an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the ...
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Mercy (467 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Compassion for the miserable. Its object is misery.
By the atoning sacrifice of Christ a way is open for ...
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Pity (165 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy
with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration ...
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Bible Concordance

Misery (38 Occurrences)

Romans 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
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James 5:1 Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon 'you';
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Genesis 16:11 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
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Genesis 29:32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."
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Genesis 44:29 And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol.
(DBY NIV)

Genesis 44:34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?-lest I see the evil that will come on my father."
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Exodus 3:7 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
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Exodus 3:17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'
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Exodus 4:31 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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Numbers 23:21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
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Deuteronomy 26:7 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;
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Judges 10:16 They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
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1 Samuel 1:11 She vowed a vow, and said, "Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his head."
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Job 3:10 Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
(YLT)

Job 3:20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
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Job 4:8 As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
(YLT)

Job 5:6 For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
(YLT)

Job 5:7 For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
(YLT)

Job 6:2 "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
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Job 7:3 so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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Job 9:18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
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Job 10:15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
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Job 11:16 for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.
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Job 15:35 To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
(YLT)

Job 20:22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
(WEB JPS ASV RSV NIV)

Psalms 25:18 See mine affliction and my misery, And bear with all my sins.
(YLT)

Psalms 31:10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
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Psalms 44:24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
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Psalms 73:5 In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.
(YLT)

Psalms 94:20 Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by statute?
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Psalms 107:10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
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Psalms 107:26 They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.
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Psalms 107:39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
(See NAS)

Proverbs 31:7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
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Ecclesiastes 8:6 For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NIV)

Lamentations 3:19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
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Micah 7:1 Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
(WEB NIV)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

2. (n.) Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.

3. (n.) Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.

Greek

5004. talaiporia -- hard work, hardship, distress
... Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: talaiporia Phonetic Spelling:
(tal-ahee-po-ree'-ah) Short Definition: hardship, misery Definition: hardship ...
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2561. kakosis -- ill-treatment
... Transliteration: kakosis Phonetic Spelling: (kak'-o-sis) Short Definition: affliction,
ill-treatment Definition: affliction, ill-treatment, oppression, misery. ...
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5005. talaiporos -- distressed, miserable
... bear, undergo" and , "a callous," J. Thayer) -- properly, (beaten-down) from continued
strain, leaving a person literally full of (deep misery) -- describing a ...
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4190. poneros -- toilsome, bad
... which is also used substantively, derived from 4192 , "pain, laborious trouble") --
properly, , emphasizing the inevitable agonies (misery) that always go with ...
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5003. talaiporeo -- to suffer hardship or distress
... endure. From talaiporos; to be wretched, ie Realize one's own misery -- be afflicted.
see GREEK talaiporos. (talaiporesate) -- 1 Occurrence. 5002, 5003. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7463a. raah -- evil, misery, distress, injury
... 7463, 7463a. raah. 7463b . evil, misery, distress, injury. Transliteration:
raah Short Definition: evil. Word Origin from the same ...
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7451b. ra -- evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity
... 7451a, 7451b. ra. 7452 . evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity.
Transliteration: ra Short Definition: evil. Word Origin from ...
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7463. re'eh -- evil, misery, distress, injury
re'eh. 7462c, 7463. re'eh. 7463a . evil, misery, distress, injury. Transliteration:
re'eh Phonetic Spelling: (ray-eh') Short Definition: friend. friend ...
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6040. oniy -- affliction, poverty
... affliction, poverty. Transliteration: oniy Phonetic Spelling: (on-ee') Short Definition:
misery. depression, Misery From anah; depression, ie Misery: ...
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4788. marud -- restlessness, straying
... cast out, misery. From ruwd in the sense of maltreatment; an outcast; (abstractly)
destitution -- cast out, misery. see HEBREW ruwd. 4787b, 4788. marud. 4789 ...
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5999. amal -- trouble, labor, toil
... amal Definition trouble, labor, toil NASB Word Usage anguish (1), fruit of his labor
(1), fruit of my labor (3), labor (16), mischief (9), misery (1), sorry (1 ...
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6001. amel -- a laborer, sufferer
... Definition: labors. that labors, that is a misery, had taken labor, wicked, workman
From amal; toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively ...
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2822. choshek -- darkness, obscurity
... From chashak; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction,
death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness -- dark(-ness), night, obscurity. ...
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2825. chashekah -- darkness
... darkness. Or chashekah {khash-ay-kaw'}; from chashak; darkness; figuratively, misery --
darkness. see HEBREW chashak. 2824, 2825. chashekah. 2826 . ...
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6040a. oni -- affliction, poverty
... Word Origin from anah Definition affliction, poverty NASB Word Usage afflicted*
(1), affliction (33), great pains (1), misery (2). 6040, 6040a. oni. 6040b ...
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Library

Misery
... The Treasury of Sacred Song. Book First L MISERY. LORD, Let the angels
praise Thy name; Man is a foolish thing, a foolish thing; ...
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What is the Misery of that Estate Whereinto Man Fell?
... Question 19: What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell? A19: All
mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under ...
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Man's Misery by the Fall
... 4. The fall 4. Man's Misery By The Fall. Q-19: WHAT IS THE MISERY OF THAT
ESTATE WHEREINTO MAN FELL? A: All mankind by their fall ...
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The Shortness and Misery of Life.
... Hymns. Book 2. Composed on Divine Subjects. Hymn 2:39. The shortness and
misery of life. 1 Our days, alas! our mortal days Are short ...
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Meditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ ...
... THE PRACTICE OF PIETY. MEDITATIONS OF THE MISERY OF A MAN NOT RECONCILED TO
GOD IN CHRIST. O wretched Man! ... Consider therefore thy misery". ...
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The State of Misery to which Adam's Sin Reduced Mankind, and the ...
... Chapter 27."The State of Misery to Which Adam's Sin Reduced Mankind, and the
Restoration Effected Through the Mercy of God. Thus, then, matters stood. ...
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The Twenty-Second Chapter: Thoughts on the Misery of Man
... BOOK ONE. THOUGHTS HELPFUL IN THE LIFE OF THE SOUL The Twenty-Second Chapter:
Thoughts on the Misery of Man. ... Living on earth is truly a misery. ...
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The Misery of Your Fall Ariseth Naturally from the Greatness of ...
... THE SECOND CENTURY 4 The misery of your fall ariseth naturally from the greatness
of your sin. The misery of your fall ariseth naturally ...
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The Misery of them who have and Prize Not
... THE FIRST CENTURY 49 The misery of them who have and prize not. The misery of them
who have and prize not, differeth from others, who prize and have not. ...
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On the Contemplation of Human Misery
... THE FIRST BOOK. ADMONITIONS PROFITABLE FOR THE SPIRITUAL LIFE CHAPTER XXII
On the contemplation of human misery. Thou art miserable ...
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Subtopics

Misery

Related Terms

Torment (19 Occurrences)

Bitterness (37 Occurrences)

Fall (522 Occurrences)

Groan (32 Occurrences)

Gnash (12 Occurrences)

Ruth (19 Occurrences)

Down (12601 Occurrences)

Mercy (467 Occurrences)

Pity (165 Occurrences)