Heaviness
Bible Usage:
- heaviness used 14 times.
- First Reference: Ezra 9:5
- Last Reference: 1 Peter 1:6
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1674 Used 1 time
- H3544 Used 1 time
- H4480 Used 2 times
- H5136 Used 1 time
- H6440 Used 1 time
- H8386 Used 1 time
- H8424 Used 2 times
- G2726 Used 1 time
- G3076 Used 1 time
- G3077 Used 2 times
- G85 Used 1 time
HEAV'INESS, noun hev'iness. Weight; ponderousness; gravity; the quality of being heavy; as the heaviness of a body.
1. Sadness; sorrow; dejection of mind; depression of spirits.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop. Proverbs 12:25.
Ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. 1 Peter 1:6.
2. Sluggishness; torpidness; dullness of spirit; languidness; languor; lassitude.
What means this heaviness that hangs upon me?
3. Weight; burden; oppression; as, the heaviness of taxes.
4. That which it requires great strength to move or overcome; that which creates labor and difficulty; as the heaviness of a draught.
5. Thickness; moistness; deepness; as the heaviness of ground or soil.
6. Thickness; moistness; as of air.