Definition

worrisomeness, i.e. labor or pain

Etymology

from H6087 (עָצַב);

Word family

• עָצַב ʻâtsab

How the KJV renders it

• sorrow
• toil

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.