'Grievous' in the Bible

Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.