עצבון

Hebrew

Root
ע־צ־ב (ʿ-ts-b)

Alternative forms

• עיצבון (excessive spelling)

Noun

עִצָּבוֹן • (itsavón) m (plural indefinite עִצְבוֹנוֹת, singular construct עִצְבוֹן־)

1. (Biblical Hebrew or literary) worrisomeness, that is, labor or pain: sorrow, toil.
   • Tanach, Genesis 3:16, with translation of the New International Version:

     אֶֽל־הָאִשָּׁה אָמַר הַרְבָּה אַרְבֶּה עִצְּבֹונֵךְ וְהֵֽרֹנֵךְ בְּעֶצֶב תֵּֽלְדִי בָנִים וְאֶל־אִישֵׁךְ תְּשׁוּקָתֵךְ וְהוּא יִמְשָׁל־בָּֽךְ׃

     To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

   • Tanach, Genesis 3:17:
   • Tanach, Genesis 5:29:

Usage notes

• The excessive spelling (plene) עיצבון is a lot less common than the defective spelling עצבון, both are correct.

Synonyms

• עֶצֶב

References

• H6093 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• עצבון, עיצבון at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.