ΛΥΠΗΡΑ, λυπηρα
LYPĒRA, lypēra
Sounds Like: loo-PEE-rah
Translations: painful, sorrowful, grievous, sad, a painful thing, a sorrowful thing
From the root: ΛΥΠΗΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that causes pain, sorrow, or grief. It can refer to a person, an event, or a state of being that is distressing or difficult to bear. For example, it might describe a 'painful heart' or 'sorrowful lips'.
Inflection: Feminine, Singular, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G3077 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Proverbs — 26:23
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Proverbs — 14:10
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
- Mandate 10 — 2:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΥΠΗΡΟΣ.
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.
- ΛΥΠΗΡΑΝ — painful, grievous, sorrowful, sad, a painful (thing), a grievous (thing)
- ΛΥΠΗΡΟΙ — painful, grievous, sorrowful, sad, a painful, a grievous, a sorrowful, a sad
- ΛΥΠΗΡΟΝ — grievous, painful, sorrowful, sad, distressing, a grievous thing, a painful thing
- ΛΥΠΗΡΟΥ — (of) sorrowful, (of) grievous, (of) painful, (of) sad, (of) distressing
- ΛΥΠΗΡΩΝ — sorrowful, grievous, painful, sad, a sorrowful thing, a grievous thing, a painful thing
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