Lexicon :: Strong's H6087 - ʿāṣaḇ

the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and he was deeply grieved.

Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter, and such a thing should not be done.

“And now don’t be grieved or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.

But David said, “Your father certainly knows that I have found favor with you. He has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or else he will be grieved.’ ” David also swore, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

He got up from the table fiercely angry and did not eat any food that second day of the New Moon, for he was grieved because of his father’s shameful behavior toward David.

That day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the troops because on that day the troops heard, “The king is grieving over his son.”

But his father had never once infuriated him by asking, “Why did you do that? ” In addition, he was quite handsome and was born after Absalom.

Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only you would bless me, extend my border, let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm, so that I will not experience pain.”[fn] And God granted his request.

Then he said to them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, because the joy of the LORD is your strength.”[fn]

“Your hands shaped me and formed me.

Will you now turn and destroy me?

They twist my words all day long;

all their thoughts against me are evil.

How often they rebelled against him

in the wilderness

and grieved him in the desert.

The one who quarries stones may be hurt by them;

the one who splits logs may be endangered by them.

“For the LORD has called you,

like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,

a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”

says your God.

But they rebelled

and grieved his Holy Spirit.

So he became their enemy

and fought against them.

And the women said,[fn] “When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it apart from our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her? ”