Word Summary
lypeō: to distress, to grieve
Original Word: λυπέωTransliteration: lypeō
Phonetic Spelling: (loo-peh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to distress, to grieve
Meaning: to distress, to grieve
Strong's Concordance
cause grief, grieve, make sorry.
From lupe; to distress; reflexively or passively, to be sad -- cause grief, grieve, be in heaviness, (be) sorrow(-ful), be (make) sorry.
see GREEK lupe
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3076: λυπέωλυπέω,
λυπῶ; 1 aorist
ἐλύπησα; pf
λελύπηκα; passive, present
λιποῦμαι; 1 aorist
ἐλυπήθην; future
λυπηθήσομαι; (
λύπη); (fr,
Hesiod down);
to make sorrowful; to affect with sadness, cause grief; to throw into sorrow:
τινα,
2 Corinthians 2:2, 5;
2 Corinthians 7:3; passive,
Matthew 14:9;
Matthew 17:23;
Matthew 18:31;
Matthew 19:22;
Matthew 26:22;
Mark 10:22;
Mark 14:19;
John 16:20;
John 21:17;
2 Corinthians 2:4;
1 Thessalonians 4:13;
1 Peter 1:6; joined with
ἀδημονεῖν,
Matthew 26:37; opposed to
χαίρειν,
2 Corinthians 6:10;
κατά Θεόν, in a manner acceptable to God (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 402 (375)),
2 Corinthians 7:9, 11; in a wider sense,
to grieve, offend:
τό πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον,
Ephesians 4:30 (see
πνεῦμα, 4 a. at the end);
to make one uneasy, cause him a scruple, Romans 14:15. (Compare:
συλλυπέω. Synonym: see
θρηνέω, at the end.)