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Calamity

11Greek/Hebrew entries

17stored occurrences

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Priority Greek/Hebrew Meanings

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Greek G894 ápsinthos

Original: ἄψινθος

Meaning:
of uncertain derivation; wormwood (as a type of bitterness, i.e. (figuratively) calamity):--wormwood.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: wormwood (as a type of bitterness, i.e. (figuratively) calamity):--wormwood.

Greek G2436 híleōs

Original: ἵλεως

Meaning:
perhaps from the alternate form of αἱρέομαι; cheerful (as attractive), i.e. propitious; adverbially (by Hebraism) God be gracious!, i.e. (in averting some calamity) far be it:--be it far, merciful.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: adverbially (by Hebraism) God be gracious!, i.e. (in averting some calamity) far be it:--be it far, merciful.

Greek G4127 plēgḗ

Original: πληγή

Meaning:
from πλήσσω; a stroke; by implication, a wound; figuratively, a calamity:--plague, stripe, wound(-ed).

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: figuratively, a calamity:--plague, stripe, wound(-ed).

Greek G4141 plḗssō

Original: πλήσσω

Meaning:
apparently another form of πλάσσω (through the idea of flattening out); to pound, i.e. (figuratively) to inflict with (calamity):--smite. Compare τύπτω.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to pound, i.e. (figuratively) to inflict with (calamity):--smite. Compare τύπτω.

Greek G4451 pýrōsis

Original: πύρωσις

Meaning:
from πυρόω; ignition, i.e. (specially), smelting (figuratively, conflagration, calamity as a test):--burning, trial.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: ignition, i.e. (specially), smelting (figuratively, conflagration, calamity as a test):--burning, trial.

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Greek G4730 stenochōría

Original: στενοχωρία

Meaning:
from a compound of στενός and χώρα; narrowness of room, i.e. (figuratively) calamity:--anguish, distress.

Greek G4959 systenázō

Original: συστενάζω

Meaning:
from σύν and στενάζω; to moan jointly, i.e. (figuratively) experience a common calamity:--groan together.

Greek G5004 talaipōría

Original: ταλαιπωρία

Meaning:
from ταλαίπωρος; wretchedness, i.e. calamity:--misery.

Hebrew H343 ʼêyd

Original: אֵיד

Meaning:
from the same as אוּד (in the sense of bending down); oppression; by implication misfortune, ruin; calamity, destruction.

Hebrew H1942 havvâh

Original: הַוָּה

Meaning:
from הָוָא (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon; by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin; calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.

Hebrew H1962 hayâh

Original: הַיָּה

Meaning:
another form for הֹוָה; ruin; calamity.

Verses containing this word showing 17 of 17

^{Deuteronomy 32:35} To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. Open

^{2 Samuel 22:19} They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. Open

^{Job 6:2} Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! Open

^{Job 30:13} They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. Open

^{Psalm 18:18} They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. Open

^{Proverbs 1:26} I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; Open

^{Proverbs 6:15} Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. Open

^{Proverbs 19:13} A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. Open

^{Proverbs 24:22} For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both? Open

^{Proverbs 27:10} Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off. Open

^{Jeremiah 18:17} I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity. Open

^{Jeremiah 46:21} Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation. Open

^{Jeremiah 48:16} The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. Open

^{Jeremiah 49:8} Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him. Open

^{Jeremiah 49:32} And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD. Open

^{Ezekiel 35:5} Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: Open

^{Obadiah 1:13} Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; Open

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