Strong's #3013: yagah (pronounced yaw-gaw')
a primitive root; to grieve:--afflict, cause grief, grieve, sorrowful, vex.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
yâgâh
1) to afflict, grieve, suffer, cause grief
1a) (Niphal) grieved, grieving (participle)
1b) (Piel) to grieve
1c) (Hiphil) to cause grief, cause sorrow
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 8 times:
Job 19:2: "How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?"
Isaiah 51:23: "But I will put of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over:"
Lamentations 1:4: "are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness."
Lamentations 1:5: "prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children"
Lamentations 1:12: "which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger."
Lamentations 3:32: "But he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies."
Lamentations 3:33: "afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men."
Zephaniah 3:18: "I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of"