- Original: אדב - Transliteration: 'adab - Phonetic: aw-dab' - Definition: 1. to grieve, cause grief a. (Hiph) to cause to grieve, to grieve, to cause grief - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 24 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to languish: - grieve. Total KJV Occurrences: 1 • grieve, 1 1 Samuel 2:33