Miseries
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Lamentations 1:7
- Last Reference: James 5:1
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:
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Misery
MIS'ERY, noun s as z. [Latin miseria.]
1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind. A man suffers misery from the gout, or from great afflictions, distress, calamity, and other evils. misery expresses somewhat less than wretchedness.
Misery is as really the fruit of vice reigning in the heart, as tares are the produce of tares sown in the field.
2. Calamity; misfortune; natural evils which are the cause of misery
And mourn the miseries of human life.
3. Covetousness. [Not used.]