86 occurrences in 13 translations

'Sad' in the Bible

but for Cain and his offering He had no respect. So Cain became extremely angry (indignant), and he looked annoyed and hostile.

Verse ConceptsTemperAnger, Sinful ExamplesAnger Of Man, UnrighteousEnvy, Example OfMalice, Examples OfExpressions On FacesDepressionRespect

And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.

Verse ConceptsOther Sad People

So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?”

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsOther Sad People

But Jacob replied, "My son isn't going back with you, since his brother is dead and he's the only one left. If something should harm him as you travel, then it'll be death for me and my sad, gray hair!"

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfGrave, TheLove, And The WorldUnhappinessParental LoveAfflicted To DeathGreySole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

If you take this one from me, too, and then something harmful happens to him, then it will be death for me and my sad, gray hair!'

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolAfflicted To DeathGrey

when he notices that the young man hasn't come back with us, he'll die, and your servants really will have brought death to your servant, our father, along with his sad, gray hair!

Verse ConceptsAfflicted To DeathGreyNowhere To Be Found

When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians." That is why its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsMourningMourning DeathBeyond Jordan

And the people hear this sad thing, and mourn; and none put his ornaments on him.

Verse ConceptsMourningPeople Stripping Off

and Jehovah giveth signs and wonders, great and sad, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;

thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand;

Verse ConceptsBeing BlessedGrudgesMastersResentment, Against PeopleSaints, Care For The PoorGod Will BlessGivingGiving Back

Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate.

Verse ConceptsSympathyWeepingLeave Us Alonevirginity

And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate.

Verse Conceptsvirginity

Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodGrowing UpPeople WaitingNot MarryingWaiting Till Marriage

Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat and why is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessWeepingHusbands Duty To WivesTen PeopleGood PeopleWhy Do You Do This?

And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.

Verse ConceptsPeople Eating

He said to him, "Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won't you tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister."

Verse ConceptsMen And Women Who LovedOther Sad People

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

Verse ConceptsNamed Wivesjezebel

And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.

Verse ConceptsCupbearerMonthButlersArtaxerxes The KingProviding Wine

Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

Verse ConceptsHuman EmotionHeart, HumanAnxiety And DepressionHeartacheDepression

And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

Verse ConceptsGatesArchaeologyCitizens, Christian DutiesDestruction Of JerusalemCity GatesBurning Jerusalem

So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, “Be still, for the day is holy; do not be worried.”

Verse ConceptsDo Not MournHoly Times

And Mordecai came back to the king's doorway. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.

Verse ConceptsCovering HeadsSitting In The GatewayPeople Mourning CatastropheGod's TimingGods Timing

Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;

Verse ConceptsSafetyProsperityGod Lifting PeopleNot Mourning

So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.

Verse ConceptsFear Will ComeBeing Scaredfriendliness

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance, and brighten up,

Verse ConceptsComplaintsComplaining

But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Practice OfClothHumilityPrayer, Practicalities OfCaring For The SickSick IndividualsHow To FastHumbling OneselfFastingFasting And Prayer

Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why are you restless and disturbed within me?Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him,The help of my [sad] countenance and my God.

Verse ConceptsLonelinessSelf PityI Am SadGod HelpsTrust In God!Hope For The RighteousGrieving With HopeDepressionDespair

Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsdepthResurrection, Of BelieversGod Lifting PeopleRevivingDepressionHealing And ComfortBitternessHardshipGetting Through Hard Timesrevivalproblemsexperiencehurting

And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It is a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunTragedyexploring

And I have hated life, for sad to me is the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Verse ConceptsWeariness Of LifeUseless EndeavourUnder The Sunfootball

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, 'For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Lack OfAffluenceDiscontentPhysical LabourBeing UnsatisfiedUseless EndeavourToiling In VainFamily And Friends

When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyOuter Garments

The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.

Verse ConceptsFishesLamentingNetsOccupationsFishermen

And her pillars shall be broken in pieces, and all workers for hire shall be sad of soul.

Verse ConceptsWagesPoolsMetaphorical Pillars

I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad.

Verse ConceptsRestitutionGod HealsGod Will ComfortGod's Healing LoveHealing And ComfortHope And Healing

We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Verse ConceptsdovesRumblingBird SoundsFar From OneNo JusticeThose Not Saved

To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;

Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsAfflictions, Consolation DuringA Time Of SalvationGod Executes VengeanceGod Will Comfort

But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them save you when you are in trouble. The sad fact is that you have as many gods as you have towns, Judah.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorMany Spiritual BeingsSalvation By Other Things

So the Lord has this to say about Josiah's son, King Jehoiakim of Judah: People will not mourn for him, saying, "This makes me sad, my brother! This makes me sad, my sister!" They will not mourn for him, saying, "Poor, poor lord! Poor, poor majesty!"

Verse ConceptsNot Mourning

The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

Verse ConceptsSighingPilgrimageRoadsTragedy On The StreetsFestivals DisregardedMourning Due To CatastropheNo One To Be Found

Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinNot Turning AsideKeeping Oneself AlivePeople Encouraging Others

and the commander of the officials said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has prearranged your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the young men who are your own age? Then you would make me forfeit my head to the king.”

Verse ConceptsCountenance

So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.

Verse ConceptsGesturesFarmersMourningRoadsMournersWailingCity SquaresGod As A WarriorHighways

How sad for me!For I am like one who—when the summer fruit has been gatheredafter the gleaning of the grape harvest—finds no grape cluster to eat,no early fig, which I crave.

Verse ConceptsGleaningFruitFig treeGrapesLonelinessSummerVintageNot Reaping What You Sow

And the king was sad; but because of his oaths and because of his guests, he gave the order for it to be given to her;

Verse ConceptsGuestsSwearing OathsOther Sad PeopleThe King's OrdersBirthdays Celebrated

And they will put him to death, and the third day he will come again from the dead. And they were very sad.

Verse ConceptsSorrowUnhappinessThe Third Day Of The WeekChrist Would Be KilledChrist Would RiseOther Sad People

So when the other servants saw what was done they were very sad, and came and gave word to their lord of what had been done.

Verse ConceptsOther Sad PeopleTelling Of Happenings

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled.

Verse ConceptsChrist Going With PeopleTwo SonsDepression

Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, so that I am almost dying of sorrow. Stay here and stay awake and keep watch with Me.”

Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartPainSorrowSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUnhappinessWeakness, PhysicalAnxiety, Examples OfStaying PutAfflicted To DeathSuicidal Thoughts

And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.

Verse ConceptsAngerAttitudes Of StubbornnessAnger, HumanHardness Of HeartHeart, DivineAnger, Justified ExamplesAnger Of Man, RighteousStretching OutChrist SeeingObstinate IndividualsThose Jesus Healed

And the king was very sad; but because of his oaths, and those who were with him at table, he would not say 'No' to her.

Verse ConceptsGuestsRashnessOther Sad PeoplePeople UnwillingWhy It HappenedBirthdays Celebrated

And he was very sad in spirit, and said, Why is this generation looking for a sign? truly, I say to you, No sign will be given to this generation.

Verse ConceptsAffirmationsGenerationsSighingUnbelief, As Response To GodDisgustNo SignsWhy Do Others Do This?

They began to be very sad and asked him, one after the other, "Surely I am not the one, am I?"

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUnhappinessWho Is The One?Other Sad People

And He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved and overwhelmed with sorrow, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch.”

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUnhappinessStaying Put

They are like children who are seated in the market-place, crying out to one another, and saying, We made music for you, but you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow, but you were not sad.

Verse ConceptsdanceFlutesAmusementsLeisure, And PastimesMarketsMarketplacesMusic To CelebrateLike ChildrenNot Mourning

And all the people were weeping and crying for her; but he said, Do not be sad, for she is not dead, but sleeping.

Verse ConceptsLamentingMourningSorrowDo Not MournMourning The Death Of Others

Seeing that he became sad, Jesus said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to the worldEntering The KingdomDrawbacks To RichesHard To Be Saved

And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?

Verse ConceptsHealthSadnessUnhappinessWalkingMotionlessnessComing To RestConversationWhat Is The Matter?Other Sad People

Being sad most of all because he had said that they would not see his face again. And so they went with him to the ship.

Verse ConceptsLove, For One AnotherSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUnhappinessFarewellsNot Seeing People

After all, if I were to grieve you, who should make me happy but the person I am making sad?

This is the very reason I wrote you, so that when I did come I might not be made sad by those who should have made me happy. For I had confidence that all of you would share the joy that I have.

Verse ConceptsJoy, Of The ChurchOptimism

If I made you sad with my letter, I do not regret it, although I did regret it then. I see that the letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while.

Verse Conceptsdiscipline, divineA Short TimeShort Time For ActionRegrettingHurtSeasons Changinggrievinghurting

Now I rejoice, not because you were made sad, but because you were made sad to the point of repentance. For you were made sad as God intended, so that you were not harmed in any way by us.

Verse ConceptsRepentanceNo Loss

And I was very sad, because there was no one able to get the book open or to see what was in it.

Verse ConceptsWeepingWorthinessMourning In Regret

And they put dust on their heads, and were sad, weeping and crying, and saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, in which was increased the wealth of all who had their ships on the sea because of her great stores! for in one hour she is made waste.

Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative UseCommerceA Short TimeDestruction Of BabylonShips For TradingDust On The HeadShort Time For ActionRegretting

Bible Theasaurus

Distressing (22 instances)
Lamentable (1 instance)
Pitiful (6 instances)
Sorry (33 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
σκυθρωπός 
Skuthropos 
Usage: 0

זעף 
Za`aph 
Usage: 5

חבשׁ 
Chabash 
Usage: 33

ירע 
Yara` 
Usage: 8

כּאב 
Ka'ab 
Usage: 8

כּאה 
Ka'ah 
Usage: 3

מרכּב 
merkab 
Usage: 3

סר 
Car 
Usage: 3

רעה רע 
Ra` 
Usage: 669

רע 
Roa` 
Usage: 19

Σαδδουκαῖος 
Saddoukaios 
Usage: 12

Σαδώκ 
Sadok 
Usage: 2

στυγνάζω 
Stugnazo 
lower , be sad
Usage: 1

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