GRIEF
GROSS
'The wicked shall see it ami be grieved' (oi:?i, Oxf. LfX. ' be vexed or indignant,' as in Nell 3^, Ec 5'") ; Ac 4- 16'" (both oiajroKeu). For this meaning; of ' grieve ' cf. 2 S 3^ \\'yc. ' Thin houdis ben not boundun, and thi feet ben not greved with fettris ' ; Is 7'^ Cov. ' Is it not ynongh for you, that ye be grevous unto men, but ye must greve my God also?'; and Child, liallath, iv. loO —
* Yet in liiiche fere yf tliat ye were, Aiiiun^'e enemya <lay and nyght ; 1 wokle wilhstoinie, with howe in hande. To greeve them on 1 niy^'ht.'
S. To cause loathing, to disgust : Ex 1" * They were grieved because of the children of Israel ' (ssnp;, KVm ' abhoned ') ; Ps 'Jj'" ' Forty years long was I grieved with this generation ' (o^px ; I, XX irpoauixOioa; Vulg. ' ollensus fui,' Wye. 'olli'nded I was ' ; Del. ' had I a loathing at ' ; Kay ' loathed ' or ' rejected with abhorrence'). The same vb. (in Hithp.) is tr"" 'grieve' in Ps 119'" 139-', where KVm gives 'loathe' ; He 3'"-" (nuof of Ps 95'", and the only occurrences in NT of rpoiroxSil^oi, which is the tr" in LXX of Vi'j to loathe, k'P to spue out, pp to be disgusted with, etc.: see Thayer, S.V.). Cf. Ex 17'" Tind. 'And the lishe that is in the river shall dye, and tlie river shall stinke ; so that it shall greve the Egyptians to drinke of the water of the ryver.'
4. To give pain, to hurt : Est 4* ' Then was the ■jueen exceedingly grieved' (Sn^runni, Oj^/. Ileb. Lex. -and she writhed [in anxiety]'); Is ,57"', Am 0" (both n^ij to 1)0 sick, one in Piel ' to become sick,' other in Nipli. ' to be raade sick') ; Ko 14"> ' If thy brother he grieved with thy meat ' (\u7reira1). This meaning, being always tig. in AV, la scarcely dis- tinguishable from (2) above, but it was once ijuite distinct, and is useil literally by Spenser, /y I. wax. 17—
* Thereat he rored for exceeding painc, Tlmt to have lieard great horror would have bred ; And .sooiirj^n^; tli' eniptie ayre with his long trayne, Tbfoufili great impatience of his grieved head.'
Grievous follows gi'ieve pretty closely in mean- ing I. linrdiin.mme, &» (jn l^'" 'the famine was grievous in the land' ; 1 K I'i' ' Thj- father made our yoke grievous ' ; Is l.V ' His life shall be griev- ous unto him ' ; Ph 3' ' To write the same things unto you, to me, indeed, is not grievous' ; 1 .In 5^ ' His commandments are not grievous.' Cf. Ex 18" Tind. ' The thinge is too grevous for the, and ti.?u art not able to do it thi selfe alone.' 2. JJi9tre.M'\7i(j, irrilKtirtg, Ex S*" 'a grievous swarm of Hies' ; Ps 10* ' His ways are always grievous' ; Pr 15' ' grievous words stir up anger ' ; 15'" ' Cor- rection is grievous unto him that for.saketh the wav ' ; Ac 20^ 'after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you.' So Is Vi* Cov. ' I wil delyver Egipte also in to the hondes of griev- ous rulers, and a crutd king shal have the rule of them.' 3. Thre'itenini/, (ilurininfi : Ps 31'* 'Let the lying lips be put to silence which speak griev- ous things. Cf. Elyot, The Govemuur, ii. 150, ' At these wordes all they that were present began to nmrmure, and to cast a di.sdaynous and grevous loke upon Gysippus'; and IJunyan, I'P (Clar. Press ed. p. 105). 'So when he arose, he getteth him a grievous Crab-tree Cudgel, and goes down into the Dungeon to them.' 4. Ileitiniui, seivre : (In IS^ ' their sin is very grievous ' ; .ler ItJ* 'They shall die of grievoUB deaths.' So Sliaks. Jul. Vies. UI. ii. 84 —
' It it were ao. It wu * Krleroaa fault. And grievously hath Onaar answered It.*
6. Sorrowful : Gn 50" ' This is a gTievous monm- ing to the Egyptians.' Cf. Hakluyt, Vvijuges, i. 1.59, ' The grievous comidaynta of our liege sub- jects concerning trallique.
Grievously is either severely. Is 9', Jer 23", Wis
in'«, 2 Mac 9^, Mt 8« 15--' ; ffunoa-./g. La 1»- » Ezk 14» : or painfully, 2 Mac l'-'' 14=». Cf. Taverner's Bible, 3 Mac 4 "■^H";; • The people had [iV'ty to se them so grevouslye handled ' ; Udal, Erasmus' Parnnhrase on Mk 5 ' The common sort are wont to take the deathe of yong folke.s much grievouslyer then of old.'
Grievousness occurs but twice. Is 10' ' Woe unto them that decree tmrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed ' {h~'j,, i.e. burdensomeness, oppression; KV ' per- verseness' as the same word is ti''' by EV in Nu 23'-'. In Hab P it is ' grievance ' in A V [as above]) ; Is 21" 'The}' fled . . . from the gricvoiisnuss of war ' (ncn^-: -133 •}■;-:, lit. ' from the face of the weight of war,' Vulg. ' a facie gravis proclii,' Wye. ' fro the face of the grevous liataile'). Udal uses the word in the sense of heinousness (Erasmus Paraphrase on Mk 5), ' Consider not the multitude and griev- ousnea of thyne offences; onelye regarde that Jesus is he that came to save all men, and is able to doe all thingea with a beck.'