2 Corinthians 2:4
New Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
צָרָה
tsârâh
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:
לֵב
lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
כָּתַב
kâthab
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
יָרַע
yâraʻ
properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear
יָדַע
yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o...
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
שָׁרַץ
shârats
to wriggle, i.e. (by implication) swarm or abound
Key Terms in This Verse
צָרָה tsârâh
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:
Study H6869 →יָרַע yâraʻ
properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear
Study H3415 →כָּתַב kâthab
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
Study H3789 →יָדַע yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, in...
Study H3045 →Cross References
Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
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