ΛΥΠΗΡΟΣ, λυπηρος
LYPĒROS, lypēros
Sounds Like: loo-pee-ROS
Translations: sorrowful, grievous, painful, distressing, sad, a sorrowful, a grievous, a painful, a distressing, a sad
From the root: ΛΥΠΗ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that causes sorrow, grief, or pain, or someone who is characterized by sorrow. It is used to describe things that are difficult or unpleasant, or people who are sad or prone to causing distress. For example, a 'sorrowful word' or a 'grievous life'.
Inflection: Nominative, Singular, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3077 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
- Mandate 10 — 3:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΥΠΗ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΛΙΠΗ — sorrow, grief, pain, distress, sadness, affliction, a sorrow, a grief
- ΛΥΠ — sorrow, grief, pain, distress, sadness, affliction
- ΛΥΠΑΙ — sorrows, griefs, pains, distresses, (in) sorrows, (with) sorrows, (to) sorrows
- ΛΥΠΑΙΣ — sorrow, grief, pain, distress, sadness, affliction
- ΛΥΠΑΣ — sorrows, griefs, pains, distresses
- ΛΥΠΕ — grief, sorrow, pain, distress, sadness, to grieve, to be grieved, to cause pain, to be sorrowful, to be distressed
- ΛΥΠΗ — sorrow, grief, pain, sadness, a sorrow, a grief, a pain, a sadness
- ΛΥΠΗΝ — sorrow, grief, pain, distress, a sorrow, a grief, a pain, a distress
- ΛΥΠΗΡΩΣ — sadly, sorrowfully, grievously, painfully
- ΛΥΠΗΣ — of grief, of sorrow, of pain, of distress, of sadness, a grief, a sorrow, a pain, a distress, a sadness
- ΤΗΣΛΥΠΗΣ — of sorrow, of grief, of pain, of distress
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