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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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κατήφεια

Strong’s: G2726

Associated OET lemmas: κατήφεια

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: κατήφεια; -ας

Constructions: κατήφεια; κατά; φάς; light

Related lemmas: φαίνω

Sense 1: gloom, depression

Semantic entry: 25.296

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Discouragement

Definition: a state of mental gloominess and dejection

Notes: In a number of languages it may be extremely difficult to speak of ‘changing’ one activity into another or one state into another, and so this expression in RV JAM 4:9 · LV JAM 4:9 · Read together JAM 4:9 must often be rendered as ‘instead of laughing, mourn, and instead of being happy, become sad.’

JAM 4:9: RV JAM 4:9 · LV JAM 4:9 · Read together JAM 4:9

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OET-RV JAM 4:9

9 Be miserable, and mourn and weep. Change your laughing into crying and your happiness into sadness

OET-LV JAM 4:9

9 Be_miserable, and mourn, and weep.
The laughter of_you_all to mourning let_be_turned, and your joy to gloominess.