The word in Scripture

Grief in the Bible

The word grief appears 26 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Grief is the pain of loss that God draws near to bear. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What grief means in the Bible

Grief is the pain of loss that God draws near to bear.

Where the word grief appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word grief appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.”Genesis 26:35

“For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.”Psalms 31:10

“For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.”Psalms 69:26

“A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.”Proverbs 17:25

“In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.”Isaiah 17:11

“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”Isaiah 53:3

“Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.”Jeremiah 10:19

“Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.”Hebrews 13:17